Humans Of New York Ethos Analysis

Today it is very easy to get tethered to electronics and communications that give you instant results. A quick check on networking site is becoming the norm verses actually picking up the phone and calling the person you are catching up with. Sherry Turkle, in her essay “Can You Hear Me Now?,” discusses points and personal experiences that persuade the reader that today’s society is becoming “more connected- or more alienated”, than ever before. Turkle utilizes the pathos appeal by using the rhetorical appeals of anecdotes, assertion, and reasoning. She relies heavily on the use of pathos throughout the entire article. This is important because it gets the reader involved in the story and sets the stage for the entire article.

How often do we use social media? Teenagers spend at least nine hours a day on social networking sites. That’s thirty percent of all time spent online dedicated to social media. These numbers are constantly increasing every day. Many of the tweets and posts that we see on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter use arguments and we don’t even realize it. All of these arguments use ethos, pathos, and logos to make a point. Let’s examine how these three concepts are used on social media.

In Stephen Marche’s blog, The Epidemic of Facelessness the idea that “everyone in the digital space is, at one point or another, exposed to online monstrosity, one of the consequences of the uniquely contemporary condition of facelessness” (Marche, 2015) is portrayed. The purpose of this blog is to show how new forms of communication are creating a “dissonance between the world of faces and the world without faces” (Marche, 2015). The faceless forms of communication Marche writes about include nonverbal communication through social media, and online trolls. Marche says, “the faceless communication social media creates, the linked distances between people, both provokes and mitigates the inherent capacity for monstrocity” (March 2015) meaning

With the advent of the internet, one of powerful industries in society was born: social media. Although companies like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YikYak and others differ in purposes, each share one major purpose with the rest: human connection; whether it is for entertainment or commercial purposes, for superficial communication or deep, the human race is all about connection between individuals. A sociologist, Brene Brown, once reaffirmed this, asserting, that the fundamental design of humanity was for intimacy and connection. When someone feels shame it is the fear that one is unworthy of such connection. Because of this versatility, drawing emotional appeals and personal connections can strongly support logic and

The argument the author is making in this article is that people, young people for the most part are sharing too much information about their personal lives on the internet. This oversharing of information is in fact leading to social networking fatigue. People are getting sick of social networking sites and the rates are dropping by the millions. Ellen Lee provides reason why this is occurring. One reason is students are returning to school and they do not have time. Another reason is that there are an increasing number of sites competing for attention. The author of this article Ellen Lee makes her argument by using different persuasive techniques such as ethos, logos and pathos.

Once again pathos was used to bring sadness and concern to young children who use social media. Anytime a child has committed suicide people react with

First and foremost, Wortham’s excellent use of pathos appeals to a very broad audience. She mentions apps, such as Facebook Messenger, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat, that are widely used by many different people of many different ages, sexes, races, etc (Wortham 824). This use of pathos allows readers to relate to Wortham because many people use these apps on a daily basis. Especially in recent years, people have become obsessed with the Internet, and Wortham uses these specific names of popular apps

In the film “New York, New York: Power and the People”, the filmmaker Ric Burns tells the story of the changed that had occurred in New York. According to Ric Burns, over 10 million immigrants came into New York and big changes stared to happened. For example, when the immigrant arrived to New York the emerge of skyscraper began and immigrant were the main constructers of those tall buildings. Of course, with the help of the new arrival technology, steal and electric elevator made the construction of this buildings possible. Also, another big change that occurred because of the arrival of the immigrants was the consolidation of the City. Since people where leaving in crowds they decided to spread, however, most of the jobs were in the Lower

In 2011, New York Times executive editor, Bill Keller, wrote an article entitled, “The Twitter Trap” in which he uses the social media site to discuss its’ impact on society, and the negative ramifications. The article attempts to illustrate the potential dangers of social media on relationships, the functioning of the brain, as well as the education and intelligence of current and future generations. He claims that social media can be dangerous because “innovation comes at a price” and Keller’s concern is that “the price is a piece of ourselves”, which becomes the basis of his argument throughout the article (Keller). Keller’s is directing his article, and consequently his argument towards the New York Times readership, and even more specifically those who are parents of children on social media, as well as general Twitter and social media users.

In Sherman Alexie’s poem “The Facebook Sonnet” Alexie brings up a controversy, over all social media because it absorbs society into the depths of dark unknowns and prevents physical face to face communication. Even though Facebook allows people to stay up to date with friends, whether they be new or deep-rooted, the platform tears its users away from substantial social interaction with others. People can connect to the world by the click of the mouse and know what is going on at any given time. Social media requires ones everlasting attention, and the addiction is almost comparable to that of a cigarette, one cannot give it up and is always thinking about when one can check it again. People become so caught up in trying to perceive what everyone else is doing, they forget that they have a reality to live and fail to maintain real relationships. “The Facebook Sonnet” belittles the social media platform by emphasizing how obsessed society is with making themselves look perfect for the screen. One is either gripping to their past or obsessing over the present.

The author illustrates in her blog the power and impact Facebook had on the population by convincing to be “a place of human connectivity,” but

The essay Stephen Marche wrote “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely” is talking about with the technology what the society looks like now, and social media like Facebook and twitter have made us more densely network than ever.

The title will mislead the audience because to most people Facebook is the foremost social media website in the world. It can’t be possible for it to be causing a decline in human interaction. The artwork shows a man using the Facebook logo as a periscope. The man is inside an enclosure peeking out at the world through Facebook. Pawel uses his satire style and metaphors again to show how people isolate themselves behind screens. People are becoming more socially awkward because of all the mobile devices. Few people have the skill of being able to talk face to face. People find it scary or awkward; it’s much easier to just hide behind a screen. Social media is one of the biggest influence in this growing cultural issue. It seems like everyone has it and post every moment of their life so there is really no reason to communicate. People can just sit at home and know what everyone is doing without even having a conversation with them. It’s kind of scary when you think about it. These pieces go to show that Pawel really knows how to tell a story with a simple painting. The simplicity of his works often elicits a smile or even a laugh, but after further inspection a deeper meaning begins to grow in the mind. His artwork tells a story that many people know all too well, but just haven’t been forced to come to terms with

Ever since the integration of technology and social media, we have changed as a society in how we interact, make conversation, and go about our daily lives. In the novel Feed, by M.T Anderson, the possible consequences of our dependence on technology and social media are highlighted through experiences between several teenagers in the future. They all live in a world that is the equivalent of a hyped up social media, which has taken over the way we interact with people. It becomes evident that M.T Anderson does not view our generation with applause, rather with disdain and pessimism for what we are doing to affect our future generations socially, politically, and economically. From the beginning of the novel, the reader

At the end of David Fincher’s film, The Social Network, Sean Parker sums up the progress of today’s society “we lived on farms, then we lived on cities, and now we are going to live on the internet”. Narrated through parallel story lines; the process of creating Facebook and the resulting lawsuits between Zuckerberg and Saverin and the Winklevoss Twins and Diva Nirendera. The film re-tells the story of the birth of Facebook, created by Mark Zuckerberg and his associates, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker. The idea of human interest is explored throughout, in the lasting consequences that jealousy, greed and betrayal has on relationships. Through this Fincher provides a critique of how today’s society connects. The realism of the film, created thorough costuming, dialogue and lighting accentuates the need for real relationships, messy and vulnerable though they are, compared to disconnected virtual ones which lack warmth and authenticity. Fincher provokes the audience to question their own lives and asks if a society that lives on the internet is a good direction to head.