Social Media Ethos Analysis

Ding! That is the sound of everyone receiving and embarrassing photo of you. Of everyone tweeting and laughing at you. Wosh! is the text you sent to the fire department letting them know your house is on fire. Author, The Guardian in the article ” Is social media bad for young people's mental health?” and author, Samantha Rupert, in “ Social Media’s Top 5 Contributions to Society,” are two articles created by different points of views on social media, and the effects it has on society. By using ethos, pathos, and logos, both sources give strong arguments, but author, The Guardian has the strongest. To begin, pathos is most effectively, but Samantha Rupert does a poor job supporting her claim. Pathos is most effective because it is used the

An example of strong ethos is David Baker, a trainee clinical psychologist at Lancaster University, who conducted psychological studies on students about social media. This evidence is strong ethos because he is strongly informed on the subject. It strengthen the argument by balancing ethos, which is something author, Samantha Ruppert, didn’t do. In addition, an example of pathos is “A generation has now grown up with the internet a part of everyday life but, as yet, we still don’t know enough about how platforms such as Facebook and Instagram affect mental health.” This evidence is strong pathos because this makes you wonder and think about why we haven’t done anything yet. This evidence of pathos strengthens the overall argument because it has a strong emotional appeal. And lastly, an example of logos is “a McAfee poll of 11- to 17-year-olds in 2014, 35% reported that they have experienced cyberbullying, up from 16% the year before. Another organisation found that Google searches for “cyberbullying” surge at the start of the school year.” It is strong Logos because it shows the true statistics of how many students are cyberbullied each year. And this evidence strengthens the overall argument because it builds up the argument. For these reasons author, The Guardian, has a stronger argument and a more balanced article