5 Myths About Gentrification By David Harvey

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A human cannot live in a water and a fish cannot live on land, for neither has the necessary form to function in the others environment. Form dictates function, and function is necessitated by situation. The internet increases access to information. It is easy to believe that because the internet is ubiquitous its content is untainted by situation. However, if that was the case, why is citing Wikipedia so wrong? Why would Google create Google Scholar? Acidemia and the news the public can access are still very different. Therefore to ignore why the differences between David Harvey’s academic journal article “The Right to the City” and Lance Freedmen's listicle “5 Myths About Gentrification” exists in terms of form, function and situation is …show more content…

The defining difference between the contexts of Harvey's academic journal and fewmans listicale is their accessibility, for the difficulty of accessibility dictates the minimum amount of intention by which each genre is read and thus ways that each form focuses on increasing the chances of a piece's success as defined by the publisher. Popular articles have passive large audiences. As readers scroll through the Washington Post they look for general knowledge to learn arguments, even if it is at a low level of interest, so accessibility of argument is crucial to being able to convey importance. Conversely, because of the barrier to access when academics open a journal article they often do so looking for collaborative information, not convincing arguments. Though many insist that these articles are written to persuade academics, by only including a counter argument in his footnotes, Harvey denies that possibility. If Harvey thought disagreeing were relevant he would have written them in the main body of his paper. The form does not match that function, thus that cannot be the situation. Harvey is writing to an intentional audience that agrees with him and is thus allowed to subvert persuasiveness for situational