Rhetorical Analysis Of The New Literacy By Clive Thompson

From a few seconds to respond to a friend’s text, countless hours spent gramming, snapchatting, tweeting, posting on Facebook, pinning on Pinterest, and many other forms of social media, teenagers today are non-stop connected to their phones, laptops, tablets, computers, etc., creating or strengthening social bonds. Your social identity is very important today, and the mount of friends you have on facebook, or amount of retweets or likes you get are a sign of your social superiority. This paper aims to evaluate Melissa Healy’s use of rhetorical strategies, such as ethos, pathos, and logos, in “Teenage social media butterflies may not be such a bad idea.” Healy uses rhetorical appeals effectively in her causal argument about adolescents and social relationships teenagers have that deal in result to social media.

This quote by Carl Sagan exposes a flaw in the modern world today. The quote uncovers that we as a society have become incredibly reliant on technology whilst taking it for granted. My primary intent of this essay is to examine Emily St. John Mandel’s “Station Eleven” and how it enriches our understanding of a social issue we face in modern society. With this goal in mind, I have found evidence to suggest that we have become far too reliant on technology, specifically social media, and the internet. The social media usage of American adults aged 18–29 years soared from 12% in 2005, to 90% in 2015 (Lau 2017). Based on this statistic we must ask ourselves; is this number of users creating a society of people that lack communication skills and depleting their ability to learn?

Throughout Dwayne Lowery’s life he encountered quite a few Literary Sponsors, as we all have. “Any agent, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress, or withhold literacy”, is Brandt’s definition of such in her essay Sponsors of Literacy published 1998. From home to school, competition to co-workers, sponsors may take form in many ways

Dana Giona persuades his audience on how the decline of reading in America will impact society negatively by incorporating a precise set of diction usage and including irony in his 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.

Writer Jonathan Kozol, in the essay “The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society,” suggests that the alarming rates of illiteracy in the U.S. are corroding the fundamentals of democracy, reinforcing the structures of inequality that created the problem to begin with. His argument draws on a range of evidence and support from multiple sources such as philosophers and historical figures, anecdotes, and first-person accounts. Kozol’s purpose is to not simply illustrate the various personal tragedies that people with underdeveloped reading skills face, but to tell his audience that such tragedies when you add them up constitute a threat to the basic values that maintain the nation as a whole.

In the novel, “The Thinking Life”, written by P.M Forni, he uses multiple and specific rhetorical strategies that shows the effectiveness of his argument. His central argument is how there are so many distractions nowadays and how we, as human beings, are so into technology that we have forgotten how to communicate to other humans face to face, but instead we are slowly mastering the way of communication through messaging and social media. Forni’s rhetorical strategy of logos is used throughout the novel, and he appeals to our reason by stating the obvious and then using examples to support his arguments. Forni does not state the negative effects of the human race slowly becoming less and less anti-social, but instead he assures different ways to help fix and assess the situation. Thus, in the novel "The Thinking Life", Forni argues how society nowadays is well rounded and adapted to using technology so much that we have forgotten how to communicate in person, and he expresses the effectiveness of his argument through his rhetorical strategies.

As an adult I aspire to go into literature education for the high school level, and technical communication is a skill I must understand. In the article, ‘Where’s Literature in the Common Core?” by Barbara Bartholomew, I will examine her use of technical communication. Specifically, I will examine Bartholomew’s understanding of her audience, purpose, and context.

Brandon Stanton the author of Humans of New York successfully used pathos and ethos to explain his subject’s stories through the multimodal genre in todays social media world. Using pop culture, Humans of New York became a household name for expressing some difficult material happening in todays society. HONY became popular because the use of online sources to spark a conversation about issues in the world, has increased as well as the use of ethos and pathos in a post. Nearly eight to ten Americans are on Facebook (Greenwood), the possibly of people seeing these social issues online is increasing tremendously. The use for technology is rise as well as the human connection through the internet. Being able to connect to across the other side

Founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, in her speech at the 1925 birth control conference, The Children’s Era, explains the downfalls in American society when it comes to raising children. Through this speech, Sanger is trying to further promote her nonprofit organization and display the benefits of birth control. She appears to show compassionate characteristics towards children, more specifically the future American children, as she adopts an urgent tone to encompass her listeners into her ultimate goal, widespread, effective birth control methods.

At the beginning of the article, Simmons discusses how teens are using informal social media language in formal writing essays. As the article progresses, the author using informal social media language in formal writing essays. As the article progresses, the author observes that Facebook has improved student emotional expression within their writing assignments. By the end of the article, the author sees how Facebook makes students writing more personal, sharing intimate issues in their writing like addiction, poverty, family problems, and their identities. The article Simmons wrote was very serious in its tone, and was about informing the reader to the benefits of Facebook to the younger male generation. This article is important to culture, because Facebook dominates the daily lives of the current young generation. When we return from our vacation, our first thing we want to do is post all of our photos on Facebook. The author is trying to appeal to an older generation that does not see the benefits of Facebook to young students’ personal well-being, such as fellow teachers and

“Social media allows people to connect with each other to create and share information. It is people-powered communication, an authentic dialogue motivated by a basic human desire to share information” (CIPD, Social Media and Employee Voice Report 2013). ‘Click’ and my message is on its way to my friend’s Facebook inbox hundred of miles away. The astonishing speed of how quick we can communicate in today’s societies, all thanks to social media. The invention of Facebook simplified everything we know about communication. We can connect to people whenever and wherever, sharing information has never been more convenient and exciting. In Shane Hipps’ Article, “ Is Facebook Killing Our Souls?,” he has no intention to impede technological advancements, instead he wants users to understand technologies with insights. According to my research, although Hipps ' points has some merits, I disagree with him because he overgeneralized the impacts that Facebook and other social media has on users’ behaviors and identities.

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

The rise of technology has given people the unique ability to communicate through new mediums, such as texting and social media, that have enabled people to become, ironically, less social. Yet, this newfound ability to communicate in a wide variety of ways has also driven the conversation in America by giving a voice to the voiceless and creating an outlet for news and information.

Most of us use social media to communicate with our family, friends and our loved once. Since almost all of my friends live 8000 mile away, I use Facebook, Instagram, and viber to keep in touch with them. Bur recently I started noticing it has become more than a means of communication. I start posting a picture and obsesses about how many likes I get, checking other peoples Facebook just to see if they have more friends than me, believing every post without questioning if it’s a fact and funny enough I start sending friend request for people I don’t even know. Christine Rosen, a senior editor of the New Atlantis and resident fellow at the Ethics and Public policy Center in Wessington, D.C. on “In the Beginning Was the World”, she wrote how technology is affecting the society’s critical reading ability. Peggy Orenstein, an author and a contributing writer for the New York Times, on “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” she talks about how social media is distracting as from fully live in the moment. Even though the development of technology have increased the quality of life, it also brought undeniable challenges to our society. The constant use of social media and internet has increase society attention-seeking, Distracted, and decries critical reading. The use of social media has increased dramatically throughout the years.