In her 2012 TED talk, "Connected, but Alone," psychologist Sherry Turkle expresses, what the world has come to with technology and people’s minds. Turkle gives her experience with technology and gives few opinions on what it’s doing to us. In 1996, technology was something that everyone wanted but most couldn’t have it. Another thing Turkle included is that technology now can be used at our fingertips and face-to-face communication is falling apart. Overall, Turkle believes that this electronic device or any electronic device is messing with our life. Overall, Turkle uses pathos, ethos and logos to connect more with the audience and to give a message about what technology has come to.
First, Turkle makes excellent use of emotional appeal or Pathos. Pathos is an appeal to the author’s way to connect with the people. The author creates emotional appeal when she admits that tech can sometimes work to connect with us.
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Logos is an appeal to logic, with ways of persuading or giving evidence. This appeal is most noticeable when she relates that everyone uses their technology at the worst moments. Turkle explains that, “People text or do email during corporate board meetings. They text and shop and go on Facebook during classes, during presentations, actually during all meetings”. By telling the audience what a lot of people often do, she creates logical appeal because she clearly showing the audience the actions they participate in every day. Additionally, her words are what makes it appeal to logos. Another example will be, “ A 50-year-old businessman lamented to me that he feels he doesn't have colleagues anymore at work. When he goes to work, he doesn’t stop by to talk to anybody, he doesn’t call.” This example gives evidence of how people have stopped communicating verbally to each other. Instead they would rather just text them, even though they might even be right next to