Summary Of In Defense Of Distraction By Sam Anderson

In the article “In Defense of Distraction” Sam Anderson states the argument of attention in today’s society and how that attention has diminished within each other and has created a poverty of attention. Anderson persuades his reader by demonstrating his knowledge of the issue and showing how he is unbiased which establishes trust with the reader. He also makes his reading easy to understand and the way the article is broken down into parts, which engages and allows the reader to be successfully navigated by a good teacher of the issue. Lastly, Anderson persuades his audience by relating to them which creates sympathy towards his argument by using the audience perspective to serve their aims and his own personal experiences. Throughout this

In which Anderson mentions the impact technology has made in society and how Mann has managed distraction and the problems it has created in his life in which Mann states, “I’m not a physician or a psychiatrist, but I’ll tell you, I think a lot of it is some form of untreated ADHD or depression,” he says”. “Your mind is not getting the dopamine or the hugs that it needs to keep you focused on what you’re doing. And any time your work gets a little bit too hard or a little bit too boring, you allow it to catch on to something that’s more interesting to you” (511). The idea of having sources and research of different sorts allows Anderson to make his argument more credible and have a sense of understanding to the audience. This allows the audience to see the different point of views of the argument from research to experts whose opinion vary with their experience in the issue. With this aspect being done in Anderson article, author Franzen in his article manages to do as well in his. In the way that Franzen uses research to support his claim of privacy and the idea of being violated in society makes his argument more credible and confident which allows the reader to analyze the issue and trust the author and what the author is stating. In his article Franzen states the idea of privacy has evolved in society as an “obsession” and that concept legally has become a

In his argument Nunberg mentions the difficulty he has had doing blogs in which he states the idea of blogs in today’s society has lost its significance. He states, “Over the last couple of months, I’ve been posting on a group blog called languagelog.org, which was launched by a couple of linguistics as a place where we would vent our comments on the passing linguistic scene. Still, I don’t quite have the hang of the form. The style that sounds perfectly normal in a public radio feature or an op-ed piece comes off as distant pontifical when I use it in a blog entry” (489). Nunberg allows the reader to relate to his personal life and experiences by stating his own struggles with blogs, which gives the audience a clear understanding of the authors struggle and allows the reader to relate to the authors struggles. As a result of his experiences throughout his essay Nunberg can be compared to Andersons article and how each of the authors relate to their audience by stating similar issues common in the everyday