...Rhetorical Analysis: Growing Up Tethered In Sherry Turkle’s article entitled “Growing up Tethered,” she focuses on the influence of technology on teens today and whether or not it is a good idea to be so involved with it. Turkle goes about persuading her audience by having a really strong purpose, has a fantastic rhetorical situation, makes some amazing claims, and from what I’ve read about she has made a huge influence on our world today. Turkle’s purpose in writing this article is to get across to everyone, but specifically teens about how they can truly find connections with one another in person and not just through technology. Technology is great and our world has improved drastically because of it. But kids today seem to be so focused...
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...------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Is the increasing digitisation of our lives making people more isolated? Is the increasing digitisation of our lives making people more isolated? Word Count: 2086 Word Count: 2086 CIS11 Information Methods Assignment 1 CIS11 Information Methods Assignment 1 Abstract This report outlines the degree to which the increasing digitisation on society is enabling a rise in connectivity amongst peoples, community and society as has never before been seen in any other era. The below argument focuses on the use of social media and online communities as a growing form of interconnectedness and the shift in the traditional form of communication. Looking further into the benefits of digitisation on our lives age demographics of the young and older generation as well as the change in the traditional work place model, shows differences in the approach and application of connecting but the overall incorporation of information communication technology in communicating with people and society. Introduction The digitisation of society occurred almost overnight with information communication technologies integrating itself into almost every facet of daily life. We wake up to the alarm that was set on our iPhone to the tune we downloaded from iTunes. Cars with GPS, iPod connectivity and Bluetooth take us to work where we sit down at a computer for the next eight hours. Society has accepted...
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...advantages, for example in economy, trade, and communication. As much as we want technology to operate immaculately, the drawbacks to technology is inevitable. Some argue that the rapid growth of technology may cause destruction upon Earth. This essay will represent my arguments and analyze the merits and demerits of technology before a reasonable conclusion can be drawn. As I was writing this essay, I thought about my own addiction to cyber world. My smartphone is always with me 24/7 and it also sleeps next to my bed. First thing I do when I wake up is to check my phone. It becomes a habit through time, and I tend to get distracted by my iPhone easily. I can’t even last half a day without it. Youngsters these days live by the phrase, as Turkle said it “Alone Together”. However, I’m questioning myself after the research I conducted before beginning this essay. Why do we check our smartphones hundred times a day? Do we even know what the word “social” means in this modernized era? The word Social, according to dictionary.com means seeking or enjoying the companionship of others; this firmly implies face-to-face interaction. Nevertheless, this definition conflicts with today's perception of social networking, in which we interact mainly with screens rather than...
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...Alone Together By: Rebecca Eickhoff In Sherry Turkle’s article “The Flight from Conversation,” She states, “If we are unable to be alone, we are more likely to be lonely.” I agree completely with her statement because I, myself see this on a daily basis with family. I think it’s a very powerful and eye opening statement. What I read in this article was that people would rather be alone with their devices than be alone with themselves or others. After reading this article, I decided to observe my family for the day and see how much technology has consumed our lives. I woke the next morning to find myself going right to my phone, not to check the time, but to see if anyone text me or called me through the night. I then proceed to check social media and see what I may have missed. At this point I’ve probably wasted 10 minutes of my morning on checking things that really didn’t matter, instead of getting things prepared for the day. I see the same pattern for my kids. Once they’re awaken, its right to their tablets to see if anyone may have attacked them on a game they were playing the night before. It’s a constant battle of me repeatedly telling them to put their tablets down and get dressed. There’s rarely a “good morning, how did you sleep?” Just faces down, buried in their devices. I see it with my husband and I as well. I can be in a room on the other side of the house, instead of coming in the room to ask me something or just to tell me about his day, he will text me what’s...
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...Connect, But Alone Does too much of a good thing ever become a problem? Sherry Turkle was trying to answer that question in her TED Talk, “Connected, But Alone?” Turkle was once a huge fan of the innovations of the Internet and she was also in awe of it but she realizes the negative effects of having an instant connection to anyone, anywhere, anything. Turkle gives examples from research she performed to show that technology has become very addicting and that we have become very secluded because of our overuse. She also gets her audience to examine their own personal experiences. What Turkle is showing from her research may make a lot of people unhappy. People will be unhappy because no one agrees to have a problem, especially in the case of addiction. Turkle wants to shine a spotlight on technology addiction, though it may not be as bad as a drug or alcohol addiction. Nevertheless, it is still an addiction. Turkle knows she has to establish credibility in order for her to diagnose mankind with this condition. Turkle uses two different appeals to make this happen. Her first appeal was to use emotion, while her second was informing the audience of who she is by sharing her background with them. In her first appeal, she shared a text from her daughter at the beginning of her presentation. The text message read, “Mom, you will rock.” “I love this. Getting that text was like getting a hug,” she told her audience (Turkle). Just by sharing that little conversation between her and her daughter...
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...Turkle chose to begin her essay with a paradox, which was an extremely effective technique. Opening with this paradox, Turkle sets the tone for the rest of her essay; “We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.” (Page 4). From the very beginning, we can assume that Turkle is disappointed in the method of communicating that society has chosen. Through her diction, using “sacrificed” when describing conversation, and “mere” when describing connection, it is evident that she favors conversation, weighing it to be more complex than connection. Turkle intelligently uses ethos to provide the reader with evidence, which she uses to support her claims. Turkle...
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...Sherry Turkle, aprofessor of the social studies of science and technology at the massaachusetts institute of technology, wrote the article “The Flight From Conversation. In this article, Turkle mainly discussed all aspects on how much impact technology has in the world today. One of the many examples that Turkle stated in her article focused on the convenience that technology has made on communication between families and friends. Everywhere people go, they mostly text or check their email via phones on the go. Even when people are actually hanging out with their friends, they still manage to keep some of their attention on their phones. Improving technologies also directly improves the daily routines, such as work, school, or just personal interest. In today's workplace a lot of people, especially younger people, show up to work listening to their music through their earphones. They often use their phone to hold conversations with friends while working. Some employers feel this dual-task reduce work production. However, some students argue that there is ways people can improve their ability to text while maintaining eye contact with other people; but no research has been conducted to prove this scenario. As technology evolves, people become more dependent and dedicate most of their time on the latest communication devices to do most of the communicating and moving away from talking face-to-face with the person next to them. Sherry Turkle exposes and explains the effects technology...
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...The Horror of Technology A week before classes started I went to the bookstore to purchase my books required by classes. For my English Composition class two books were necessary, The Norton’s Field Guide to Writing and Alone Together by Sherry Turkle. I thought to myself, “Great! Not only do we have to write in this class, but we also have to read a book.” I read the cover of the book to get an idea of what this book was all about. “Why we expect more for technology and less from each other”. It seemed slightly interesting. People always hear from their older relatives, “Back in my day…” These statements usually shocked us. Like, how did they do that, or how did they survive? It intrigued me to learn how technology has affected us. We were first assigned to read the Author’s Notes and the Introduction. From this I found out Sherry Turkle was actually a creditable source, not just some random person ranting. She is a teacher at MIT, and also psychoanalytically trained psychologist (Turkle ix-xvii). Likewise, I found out Turkle used various methods to collect data for her book: clinical trials, interviews, research, studying certain age groups, and immersing herself in the environment. We will go more in depth on these methods later. She seemed like an amazingly laid back writing in these sections being very open, throwing in a few comical lines, and telling many stories. “Maybe this was not going to be a boring book after all,” I considered to myself with relief. During the...
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...an article by Sherry Turkle which explains the changes in thinking that are often brought up by the use of computers. Turkle realizes through her own experiences and observations of the world around her that there are significant psychological consequences to having computers in our lives. Sherry Turkle is a MIT professor that has a BA in Social Studies and also a Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality Psychology which she obtained at Harvard University. Turkle finds that the advancing technology that we know of today is having a great affect on how we think. In her article she explains that instead of us working for the computers, have the computers work for us. Also she examines the effects of computers on humans in her essay “How Computers Change the Way We Think”....
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...helping them, and in many ways it is, but it is also hurting them. Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT, discusses some of the ways she thinks technology is hurting us in a famous TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Talk. In this she gives multiple examples of how people are relying or even trusting technology more than other people. It is crazy to think this, but sadly it is so true. In Sherry Turkle’s TED Talk “Connected, but alone?” she uses pathos to persuade the audience that technology is actually disconnecting us instead of bringing us together. Sherry Turkle’s argument is simple. She believes that people think they are getting closer to one another by using technology, but really they have never been more alone. She provides three main pieces of evidence to support this idea. First, we put our attention wherever we want it to be, and she gives the example of people texting or shopping during important meetings or big events. She says that we are hiding from each other in this way. Second, we think we will always be heard if we are constantly texting or posting to social media websites. Finally, we believe we are never alone when we are online. Turkle does not think that we need to turn away from technology or our devices, we just need to rely less on them. This essay is to prove that she focused on using pathos to convince the audience of these ideas and why they are bad. Carter 2 ! Sherry Turkle opens her TED Talk by mentioning that her college student daughter...
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...The research done on the topic of teen dependency on technology and social media has shed some light on the controversial issue. Many believe that teens and young adults are too dependent on their electronic devices and that the dependency on electronics can have negative effects later on in life. So are people becoming more dependent on electronic devices for communication? What effects could this have on young adults and children? Bellinson, Jill. "Introduction to “Where the Wired Things Are: Children and Technology in Treatment”." Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy 10.4 (2011): n. pag. Abstract. Print. Jill Bellinson, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst as well as the author of the Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy. As a Ph. D I believe her information on the topic very credible. Bellison presents this topic in an unbiased way by listing the pros and cons of having so much digital interaction. Pros such as the ability to be connected and ability to communicate at any time but cons such as cyberbullying, and stalking. Boyd, Danah. It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. N.p.: n.p., 2014. Print. Danah Boyd, a social media scholar and youth researcher has alma maters at Brown University, MIT and UC Berkeley School of Information. She is well known for commentary on sociality, identity, and culture among youth on social networks. In It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked...
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...Critical Response to “Growing Up Tethered” Technology has given us the luxury to connect with anyone from family and friends to even complete strangers online, but can too much connection be problematic? “Growing Up Tethered” is a chapter written by Sherry Turkle a professor at MIT that points out the many issues people are facing due to the need they have for constant connection. She believes that always needing connection has changed the way we traditionally engage with each other along with the purpose and emotion behind the meaning of having a conversation and socializing. Technology has slowly but surely become ineluctable to those growing up with it. “Growing Up Tethered” is a well written unique chapter not only because of the numerous...
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...well written review in your opinion? Critical review task Sherry Turkle, a professor of the Social Studies of Technology, has written extensively about the effects of technology on human relationships. Read Chapter 1 (Connectivity and its discontents) from her book Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. What evidence does Turkle provide for her main argument that technology has served to diminish the quality of our relationships? How persuaded are you by this argument? (1,000 words) Review: Turkle, Sherry (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic Books (Extract from Chapter 1Connectivity and its discontents) Comment [T1]: At the beginning of a review, you should provide all the BIBLIOGRPAHICAL INFORMATION about the text you are reviewing. The last 20 years have seen a revolution in the way we communicate, all brought about by the quite extraordinary developments that have occurred in the field of information and communications technologies.. There is no doubt that the way people interact with each other nowadays – whether in business, education, in one’s personal life – is drastically different from the way things were done in the not-so-distant pre-digital past. But have these developments been positive ones? Can we say that human relations have improved as a result of these changes?. Sherry Turkle in her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology...
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...keeping in touch with Clive Thompson, Nicholas Carr, Sherry Turkle, and Malcolm Gladwell in the past several months, I understand how a simple topic can be crafted into a thoughtful conversation between the writers and the readers. Of course, the revisions given by my professor and classmates lead me to go on the right track of narrating the “They Say” and the “I Say” about whether or not to use technology. I decided to choose 2H and 3B to be included in my portfolio. First, even though the benefits of technologies are argumentative, I was amused that some of the authors proclaimed that technologies should not be used. People like me have abundant products which are made by technology around them. Ironically, the majority of authors in the book They Say I Say did not totally agree with using technologies. Sherry Turkle argues about technologies deprive the time parent spend on her; Nicholas Carr once believed that computer would replace reading. However, after understanding their points of view critically, I can speak of their views with my own words following with my personal opinions, such as why would Clive Thompson and Nicholas Carr say technologies will shape the way we think. Eventually, I decided to write...
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...well written review in your opinion? Critical review task Sherry Turkle, a professor of the Social Studies of Technology, has written extensively about the effects of technology on human relationships. Read Chapter 1 (Connectivity and its discontents) from her book Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other. What evidence does Turkle provide for her main argument that technology has served to diminish the quality of our relationships? How persuaded are you by this argument? (1,000 words) Review: Turkle, Sherry (2011). Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic Books (Extract from Chapter 1Connectivity and its discontents) Comment [T1]: At the beginning of a review, you should provide all the BIBLIOGRPAHICAL INFORMATION about the text you are reviewing. The last 20 years have seen a revolution in the way we communicate, all brought about by the quite extraordinary developments that have occurred in the field of information and communications technologies.. There is no doubt that the way people interact with each other nowadays – whether in business, education, in one’s personal life – is drastically different from the way things were done in the not-so-distant pre-digital past. But have these developments been positive ones? Can we say that human relations have improved as a result of these changes?. Sherry Turkle in her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology...
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