The Impact Of Social Medi Milner And Whitney Phillips

The Impact of Social Media: An Analysis Asking users of social media to completely obliterate all of their current accounts would not be plausible. In an effort to convey messages about the impact of social media, Amy Webb and authors Ryan M. Milner, and Whitney Phillips took to the web, writing about pertinent issues that they felt were necessary. Milner and Phillip’s use of pathos to inflict guilt and remorse about the way a symbol in social media can change was just short of Webb’s portrayal of the feeling for desire, safety and protection surrounding her article about protecting young adults from social media. When constructing the article and including certain appeals to pathos, Milner and Phillips needed to have a target audience that

According to Dictionary.com, the definition of pathos is: “evoking a feeling of pity, or of sympathy and kindly sorrow or compassion” (n.d., 2017). Milner and Phillips display an array of pathos throughout their article with the use of diction and reliance on other examples. Even from the beginning, the reader gets a sense of distaste from the author surrounding Pepe. Milner and Phillips write, “Pepe’s popularity (even over-popularity)” (para 1) which allows the audience to come to the conclusion that they believe Pepe has an over-popular reputation. Typically, pathos appeals lie under the surface and the audience often feels certain ways while reading an article, yet the Milner and Phillips purposely included certain diction and points of interest for their intended audience. For example, when speaking of white supremacists, the word Trumpism shortly follows in parenthesis (Milner and Phillips, par 4). When connecting the two words “white supremacy,” and ‘Trumpism,” the reader inherently assumes that both things are essentially correlational. In this specific example, the appealing audience would be that of the left side due to the assumption that white supremacy is related to Trump. However, when

Webb’s use of pathos throughout her article is more effective due to the fact that she explicitly explains her own feelings through a story. When Webb talks about kids and how they are born into “digital sin,” the audience could have a variety of emotions. Some people view sin as remorseful, sad, or regretful. When reading certain diction readers are compelled to feel emotions, however Webb uses the same tone throughout her article to better convey a feeling of worry. By using her neighbor as an example and the basis for her paper, Webb allows her audience to feel connected to her because it shows how relatable the information is. Webb clearly shows who her intended audience is with a caption under a picture that reads, “This is exactly the kind of photo you shouldn’t post of your child” (Webb, caption). By claiming that the picture could be of “your child,” Webb implies that the readers also have children and throughout her paper she describes all of the experiences that Kate is robbed of due to her parents. Parents do not want to be responsible for any harm to their children, so this article appeals to all of their feelings and allows them to realize that a change is imperative to protect their