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In the age of the internet, “Click bait” and “fake news” are more prevalent and accessible than ever. It is found in the form of false, useless, and biased information. “He knew he was right” by Louis Menard is an effective example of a “Click bait” argument that convinces Americans to change their opinions of Barry Goldwater. Menard uses metaphors, imagery, and citations to show the audience the ties between Barry Goldwater and the modern-day GOP’s leaders to convince them that Goldwater was…

Traits of a Great Persuasive Piece The author, Laura Spinney, uses a variety of persuasive skills and techniques in the article, “How Facebook, fake news and friends are warping your memory”. She uses Ethos, Pathos, Logos, and a variety of arguments to get her point across. Laura Spinney’s use of these skills is fairly effective at convincing the reader that fake news and misinformation lead to altered memories that affect how people view the past and the future. Spinney uses a wide variety of…

I decided to observe the social platform of “Snapchat” which is a mobile app that allows interaction through media such as pictures and videos which self destruct after a couple seconds. In this day and age, Snapchat has proven to be a revolutionary source of media in both positive and negative ways. The most dangerous form of interaction this platform enables is momentary keyboard confidence, which related greatly with many of the readings and subjects we discussed in class. This is the concept…

Introduction Jenny L. Davis conducted a study about Social Media and experiential ambivalence, in which she approaches the debate from an experimental perspective, evaluating the stories that people have told her about their relation to technology. Her qualitative study looks at the participant’s subjective experiences with social media, and how it influences them in their interpersonal communication and personal lives. She suggests that technological ambivalence is neither dystopic or utopic,…

In his bildungsroman Feed, M. T. Anderson presents a nightmare of the future in which the omnipresent feed, a brain implant providing access to the internet, has dominated human minds with an escape in a virtual reality where advertising, artifice, and pleasure-seeking abound. In this world of surplus and connection, there is an ironic and tragic scarcity in the prevalence of meaningful human relationships. This is seen in the life of protagonist Titus, an average teenager with a fixed esteem…

The topic of Part 1 of the book titled “Twitter and Tear Gas the Power and Fragility of Networked Protest by Zeynep Tukefci begins with the idea of mass media communication specifically focused on the idea of technology. Another important topic that the author includes in part 1 is the idea of censorship and attention. The third topic mentioned in Tukefci’s book is the idea of digital technology and how social media tends to become a useful tool that protesters use in order to incorporate and…

Birth announcements, life achievements, and memorable experiences are all events that are shared on social media. Adrienne Lafrance, an author for The Atlantic, calls attention to current and future parents who use social media. Lafrance addresses her audience with an informative tone and formal language that the typical parent can understand without coming across as too simplistic. In her article “The Perils of Sharenting,” Lafrance effectively convinces her audience that parents need to limit…

Indication of Selfie and Narcissism’s Relationship Human beings always want to make special moments memorable that the biggest proof is photos which we encounter daily in social media. When a bunch of people gathered to specific place, they needed one to take their photos. Gradually, desire of taking group or solo photos has ended up with invention of selfie, and in a short time, selfie became a trend. At least, everyone almost has one selfie in social media accounts. Although selfie is one of…

Addiction to Social Media Why is social media addictive? What are the reasons that make people to be addicted to it? There is no doubt that social media plays an important role in the modern life of people. It affects all aspects of people. For example, almost everyone uses the social media networks for many purposes in life such as personal purposes, chats, making friends, marketing and business. In addition, social media networks has become very essential for people like food and drink.…

Social Media Does social media give negatif effect ? Yes Social media is an application that is in a gadget that is in use to share or create something content to other users. Social media is very simple on the use so that everyone can use of the young to which the old. In this moderns era social media very widely used and very useful, social media can be used as communicate with other people,stranger and find old friend who rarely meet. Source survey and the articel in internet social have…