This will ensure that the correct audience will read her article. It is also important for a tech-savvy audience that all information on technology is up-to-date, which the author successfully executes by only writing her article only two days after Google explained their Jigsaw expansion of Alphabet. Lafrance knew that the tech-savvy audience would demand an article with all of the history put together — with her added opinion.
Nicholas Carr’s essay, "Is Google Making Us Stupid?” on the other hand is a very different approach to language, more specifically about the language used in relation to technology. Carr begins this essay with a personal observation that he is losing his ability to read for long periods of time. He claims that the internet is to blame for deterioration of attention people now experience when reading. This is because people are developing a new way of reading in which Freidman refers to as “skimming”(Carr) that allowing them to hastily read things without actually taking in the semantic meaning.
He believes that internet makes us less deep thinker because of its easiness. He uses ethos by showing several researches and essays as a source to make his essay powerful and to make a connection of his point and character with the audience. He also uses a pathos to appeal to the audiences’ imagination to pull them in to show what he experienced by comparing his past and present ability of reading. To convince an audience by use of logic or reason, Carr uses logos by citing several credited authors their ideas about the impact of the internet in our way of reading, thinking and way of living. In terms of the impact of internet on how we read, Carr believes that people do not read the entire article and it is seen that they bounce from page to page, losing focus quickly with reading on the web.
Carr argues how technology has been negatively affecting the way our brain operates. He goeson to inform us, how we are able to discover almost anything on the internet in a matter of seconds. Allowing people to become dependent on the internet in all aspects of life. Carr states that technology is destroying our lives because it has changed the way humans think and operate. Nicholas Carr uses three main Rhetorical strategies such as appeal to credibility (ethos), appeal to logic (logos), and appeal to emotion (pathos), to persuade his audience of the dramatic effects the internet has on our brain and the different ways its changing our thinking.
Although the Internet has many benefits, it has negatively impacted our society in the way we spell, the way we read, our physical fitness, and our critical thinking skills. People no longer have to think about how to spell a word. The auto-correct features in the technology we use automatically fix any errors made. In Carr’s article, he states
As a result people are allowing their brains to form another of thinking in a more broader way. People are applying their knowledge which they gathered from a variety of technological sources to convey a concept in their thinking
Tecnogey and Us Today With in “From The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains” Nicholas Carr, the author of this article, prompts us to think deeper about how exactly the technology we use so freely today is affecting us as a consumer. While in this article Mr. Carr shows that he notices and appreciates how much the internet has helped others as well as himself, as shown when he states “The Web’s been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes” (Carr par. 3), we can also gather from this article that he is extremely concerned for the very way he thinks.
In the technology filled world that we live in, people have many different opinions and views on how this technology affects us whether it is positive or negative. This can be seen by comparing “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” by Nicholas Carr and “Smarter than You Think?” by Clive Thompson and their separate opinions on this technology that is affecting us. Both Carr and Thompson agree that technology is having a large impact on people but what they differ on is the type of impact, Carr saying it’s a negative impact by making us too reliant on it and Thompson saying it’s a positive one in the way that it can help us accomplish many things. How has technology changed the skills people already possess? In the essay by Carr, he talks about the typewriter, but more specifically about the writer Friedrich Nietzsche who started to lose his vision and had to master touch-typing to be able to continue writing.
Rhetorical Analysis In the article “Is Google Making us Stupid?”, author Nicholas Carr expresses his idea that the internet is taking over society and our thinking process. Google is affecting our abilities to read books, longer articles, and even older writings. Carr believes that we have become so accustomed to the ways of the internet, and we are relying on Google 's ability to sort through the details for us so we don 't have to, in order to get the information we find necessary more efficiently. He finds that this process has become almost too handy, and that it is corrupting us from becoming better educated.
While this is meant to help people, it is instead changing how our brains are interpreting information. When we are younger, we are taught how to interpret many different symbols, letters, and numbers. As we grow, this skill is further developed and made stronger yet these various studies have revealed this is being weakened by technologies influence on our
Our way of thinking is beginning to change to the way that computers do. Advancements are made everyday. These new advancements are attempting to make life in general easier for everyone. Nicholas Carr makes the claim that, “as the internet because our primary source of the information it is affecting our ability to read books and other long narratives.” Carr suggests that using the internet is altering the way that our minds operate.
We first see this idea show up through George Orwell 's 1984. Within this totalitarian novel, the government aims to reduce the meaning of language as well as the number of words possible. Although when we read Orwell 's novel we fear the society he creates, in some ways we are subconsciously slipping into ‘newspeak’. As our society develops, we begin simplifying words, and create an easier way of communication. Today we live in a fast pace moving society, we as humans now want to be able to get from point A to B as fast as we can.
Everyone's favorite online shopping site, Amazon just aired a new commercial advertising their line of Alexa devices. This commercial was strategically designed to appeal to all audiences and persuade them to purchase an Alexa device. This advertisement uses many different rhetorical devices to appeal to an audience. These are pathos, logos, ethos, personification, repetition, colors, clarity and framing. An important part of this commercial was the use of well known celebrities to attract certain people.
This technology has changed everything in people knowledge. According to Zaryn Dentzel (2014), cited by How the Internet Has Changed Everyday Life, after the internet revelations human existence upside down in his word and he mentions that this technology has changed the meaning of communication. It has become a part of everyday life and people just far from one or two
Technology and new innovations are welcome in the society of the twenty-first century. Technology is advancing every year, and it is being integrated into everyone’s daily life. Technology like smartphones, computers, smartwatches, smart glasses, smart tv’s, and game consoles are being incorporated into people’s homes, jobs, education, transportation, and medicine. Technology makes it easier for people to communicate effortlessly over long distances. People have the ability to search for an abundance of information at their fingertips.