In this talk, Sherry Turkle’s arguments are shown to be very logical because she proves her points through the use of induction. Turkle first provides an example of an experience she has had with people as her “case”. From her experiences, she forms a rule or idea. An example of this is at 8:57 - Turkle says that she often hears people say, “I would rather text than talk.” From one simple statement, Turkle is able to draw from this that people are “used to getting by with less”. Moreover, Turkle provides an additional example on how lots of people have shared with her the wish of a more advanced version of Siri so that Siri will become more of a best friend figure - “someone who will listen when others won’t.” From these two statements combined, …show more content…
Overall Turkle adds, “the feeling that ‘no one is listening to me’ makes us want to spend time with machines that seem to care about us.” In terms of leaps in logic, I found that her talk is very easy to follow, and no sudden topics or points were introduced. Sherry Turkle connected and introduced her points effectively , and as a result, in my opinion, made her arguments much more understandable,
In Sherry Turkle’s TED Talk, it is evident that she relies heavily on emotional appeals. At 5:35, Turkle uses an analogy through Goldilocks to explain the connections and relationships among people. In the talk, Turkle refers to “the Goldilocks effect”, where she states, “across generations, I see that people can’t get enough of each other, if and only if
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At 7:32, Turkle gives a personal experience of when Stephen Colbert asked her a certain question that can be considered a counterargument to her own. She states that Colbert asked, “Don’t all those little tweets, don’t all those little sips of online communication, add up to one big gulp of real conversation?” She quickly refutes the idea by remarking, “my answer is no, they don’t add up” but concedes to the idea by adding, “connecting in sips may work for gathering discreet bits of information, they may work for saying “I’m thinking about you”, or even for saying “I love you” - I mean, look at how I felt when i got that text from my daughter”, however she effectively supports her refutation by stating how “communicating in sips don’t really work in terms of learning about the other person, or getting to know and understand each other.” She mentions how we use conversations with each other to learn how to have conversations with ourselves, and how it helps us self-reflect, which is an extremely valuable skill for children in terms of development. The question Colbert asked is a question I also used to ask myself. I have friends in elementary school who are like family to me. Today, we all go to different high schools and communicate with each other through text messaging and group chats. I too, would also think that sending messages to one another would be a good way of communication. However,
In her article, “Lecture Me. Really”, Molly Worthen addresses the issue college students know all too well: how to lecture properly. Published in the New York Times, Worthen writes a passionate article about lecturing but from the perspective of a professor. Worthen presents the idea that lecturing, although some may think ineffective in the classroom, is a way to truly challenge and engage students into critically thinking. Worth dictates this idea with an excellent build up logical argument but lacks the proper evidence to support her claims creating a faulty argument.
In Jane McGonigal’s Ted Talk, “The game that can give you ten extra years of life” explains how she created a game called “Jane the Concussion Slayer” to help her overcome a concussion that didn’t heal properly. McGonigal describes to her audience the different levels and power-ups she created to make herself feel better. In doing so, she believed it helped her tackle challenges with more creativity, determination, and optimism. McGonigal then concludes her speech and challenges her audience to create their own game to add years to their lives. Taking away from this video, I have decided to create my own game so I can have a good and productive fall semester by creating “Power Points” to help me stay an organized and determined college student.
Brene Brown main point about her speech is vulnerability. Her main point of this is to understand or know what he feel and to embrace that in us. We shouldn't brig ourselves down thinking that are emotions how we feel about things makes us weak. It makes us stronger and we realize how when we feel vulnerable we need to take action and defeat it. We also need to be aware that when people see that your vulnerability they can easily target you to bring you down making you feel less confident.
“I am not, talking to Sierra because she Facebook messaged me yesterday, and was really rude. She even said that she hated you.” In today’s world conversations like this are happening a lot more frequently, mostly because of the misunderstandings that can arise through text messaging, and emails. These types of disagreements happen because when texting someone you cannot hear their voice, or see their face, and this can lead to misconstruction of a person’s message. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Connectivity and its Disconnects” Turkle says that technology is changing the way that we interact with each other. She explains that there is a “real” and “virtual world” in which we act in two completely different manners depending on which world we
It is only human to be biased. However, the problem begins when we allow our bigotry to manifest into an obstacle that hinders us from genuinely getting to know people. Long time diversity advocate, Verna Myers, in her 2014 Ted Talk, “How to overcome our biases? Walk boldly toward them” discusses the implicit biases we may obtain when it comes to race, specifically black men and women. Myers purpose is quite like the cliché phrase “Face your fears.” Her goal is to impress upon us that we all have biases (conscious or unconscious). We just have to be aware of them and face them head on, so that problems such as racism, can be resolved. Throughout the Ted Talk, Verna Myers utilizes an admonishing yet entertaining tone in order to grasp our attention
She argues, “Now I suggest that the culture in which they develop tempts them into narcissistic ways of relating to the world” (244). The author argues that the society in which young adults grow up, reflects on their view of the world. Growing up in a technologically advanced society, teens seem ill prepared to deal with their day to day surroundings that require social interaction. Many millennials show little interest in anything dealing in the past. Instead, they are focused on the future and the next great technological advancement. Lastly, at the end of her essay, Turkle expresses the true social issues of teens due to the abundance of technology. She claims, “teenagers who will only ‘speak’ online, who rigorously avoid face-to-face encounters, who are in text connect with their parents fifteen or twenty times a day, who deem even a telephone call ‘too much’ (243). Turkle claims that there are consequences resulting on the heavy reliance of technology. Teens only speak over text and cannot even speak on the telephone, because they are too internal. Rather than speaking externally with others, teens are quiet while only communicating with themselves and over the phone. They would rather write words, than speak them. This is creating a generation of young adults who are not comfortable in normal social
Katy Hutchison opened to viewers with two heart felt stories during her Ted Talk. In her opening, she states lots of experiences will happen in life whether it be great or bad. She believes that when it them becomes a time in one’s life where a mess happens then there’s a moral responsibility to clean up the mess no matter the means. In the process, if cleaning the problem one may realize that they’ve been standing next to the person who created the mess. In the moment of realization, you’ll begin to feel the amount of possibility. What I gained from her message was that life has its up and down. While you’re up life is great, and everything goes as for as planned. You look forward to the next day because you know it going to be great. But,
In the21st century, Amazing changes in communication has affected interpersonal relationships. Some prefer to use technology like Facebook, Line, and Wechat to communicate with their friends rather than talking in person. Communicating with technology will make them alienated. Interpersonal relationships are also important by personal talking, which may lead to improve relationships. In her essay, “Connectivity and Its Discontents”, Sherry Turkle believes technology weakens interpersonal relationship among friends, and relatives. In “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan claims talking with her mother and husband in a personal way can improves their relationship. Using technology to communicate will alienate and widen the distance between friends; talking
In Sherry Turkle’s, New York Times article, she appeals to ethos, logos and pathos to help highlight on the importance of having conversations. Through these rhetorical devices she expresses that despite the fact that we live in a society that is filled with communication we have managed to drift away from “face to face” conversations for online connection. Turkle supports her claims by first focusing on ethos as she points out her own experiences and data she has collected. She studied the mobile connection of technologies for 15 years as well as talked to several individuals about their lives and how technology has affected them. Sherry Turkle also shows sympathy towards readers by saying “I’ve learned that the little devices most of us carry
In the world today, people are constantly surrounded by technology. At any given moment, we can connect to others around the world through our phones, computers, tablets, and even our watches. With so many connections to the outside world, one would think we have gained more insight into having better relationships with the people that matter the most. Despite these connections, people are more distant to one another than ever. In the article, “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk," author Sherry Turkle details her findings on how people have stopped having real conversations and argues the loss of empathy and solitude are due to today’s technology. Turkle details compelling discoveries on how technology has changed relationships in “Stop Googling. Let’s Talk,” and her credibility is apparent through years of research and the persuasive evidence that supports her claims.
Turkle throughout her papers has a claim and reasons that support her claims, but her backing and warrants are non-existent, which leads to the emotional rants that make up the article. The audience in general isn’t moved to think her way when all they get from her paper is the rant with nothing to strengthen her points. She also doesn’t give the other side of the argument a chance and continues to bash it without letting it have its fair chance. One of the many examples of her rant structured arguments is “Texting and e-mail and posting let us present the self we want to be… not too little- just right.” (Turkle). This argument wants people to see how much we can change from who we really are in real life to how we perceive ourselves over the internet. It doesn’t have a backing or any other supporting methods just a claim and a lot of emotion that she hopes will convince you of her main argument. With this Turkle hopes that the audience will be swayed without any effort put into the argument. Instead of being moved to think the way Turkle does, the audience members question the validity of any of her claims due to the fact they are emotionally heavy and do not provide any substance to truly back up her main point in the
Nicholas Carr’s “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and Sherry Turkle’s “How Computers Change the Way We Think” both discuss the influence of technology to their own understanding and perspective. The first work by Nicholas Carr is about the impact technology has on his mind. He is skeptical about the effect it could cause in the long term of it. He gives credible facts and studies done to prove his point. While Sherry Turkle’s work gives a broad idea of the impact of technology has caused through the years. She talks about the advances in technology and how it is changing how people communicate, learn and think. In both works “Is Google Making Us Stupid” and “How Computers Change the Way We Think” the authors present
Turkle provides dialogues of individuals who avoid social interactions at all cost and would rather communicate through technology, as it is just an inconvenience to have direct confrontations. These dialogues strongly support Turkle’s argument that we’re creating a greater gap between others and ourselves. The reason we are lonely is because we place less effort into building relations with others.
She clearly stated that technology users need to stop focusing so much on technology and focus more on face-to-face conversation before it is too late. According to James Butler in How is Technology Destroying Our Society, “76 percent of the world’s email accounts are for personal use, 24 percent are for business use” (Butler pg. 2). To go along with this statistic, “There are 2.5 billion people in the world who use email. And this will rise to 2.8 billion by 2018” (Butler pg. 2). This may seem like just another statistic and it may be thought of as not a big deal or you may even question why does this matter to me, Turkle explains, “Think of it as “I share, therefore I am.” We use technology to define ourselves by sharing our thoughts and feelings as we’re having them. We used to think, “I have a feeling; I want to make a call.” Now our impulse is, “I want to have a feeling; I need to send a text”” (Turkle pg. 4). Our thoughts on technology have changed drastically. Technology has gone from being something we have to something we
This demonstrates how the points that Turkle wrote about are not based on how people feel about technology but based off the effects of technology that Turkle presented to them. Basically, she interviews people that have the same stances as her; which proves that it’s not an accurate representation of how people perceives technology.