Today everyone is on social media and there are a lot of things on social media that is fake news. Why people would put fake news on social media, no one knows. Maybe it’s just to get attention, but the author makes several arguments as to reasons why people pass along fake news stories and posts. The author convincingly reminds people that not everything one sees in the media is true. The author states that some people do it on purpose while some people don’t know that they are posting a fake photo or news story. He uses great diction to demonstrate this. No one will ever know why someone would want to do it on purpose, but maybe it makes them feel better about themselves. Weinberger says, “it can be pathological.” Basically, some people
Jonathan Kozol revealed the early period’s situation of education in American schools in his article Savage Inequalities. It seems like during that period, the inequality existed everywhere and no one had the ability to change it; however, Kozol tried his best to turn around this situation and keep track of all he saw. In the article, he used rhetorical strategies effectively to describe what he saw in that situation, such as pathos, logos and ethos.
In the book Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer wrote about Christopher McCandless, a nature lover in search for independence, in a mysterious and hopeful experience. Even though Krakauer tells us McCandless was going to die from the beginning, he still gave him a chance for survival. As a reader I wanted McCandless to survive. In Into the Wild, Krakauer gave McCandless a unique perspective. He was a smart and unique person that wanted to be completely free from society. Krakauer included comments from people that said McCandless was crazy, and his death was his own mistake. However, Krakauer is able to make him seem like a brave person. The connections between other hikers and himself helped in the explanation of McCandless’s rational actions. Krakauer is able to make McCandless look like a normal person, but unique from this generation. In order for Krakauer to make Christopher McCandless not look like a crazy person, but a special person, I will analyze the persuading style that Krakauer used in Into the Wild that made us believe McCandless was a regular young adult.
The article I have chosen for my rhetorical analysis is #Gamergate Trolls Aren’t Ethics Crusaders; They’re a hate group because it seemed interesting. The reason I was drawn to this article was because of the title, I was interested to know what it meant. This article, written by Jennifer Allaway, is about gamergate, an online gaming community, and the hate they show towards others. Jennifer does research on sexism in videogames and how it correlates to the gamers that play these games. She was collecting data from different organizations by using a questionnaire that gathered information on diversity in the videogame community. When some gamergate members
Pollan’s article provides a solid base to the conversation, defining what to do in order to eat healthy. Holding this concept of eating healthy, Joe Pinsker in “Why So Many Rich Kids Come to Enjoy the Taste of Healthier Foods” enters into the conversation and questions the connection of difference in families’ income and how healthy children eat (129-132). He argues that how much families earn largely affect how healthy children eat — income is one of the most important factors preventing people from eating healthy (129-132). In his article, Pinsker utilizes a study done by Caitlin Daniel to illustrate that level of income does affect children’s diet (130). In Daniel’s research, among 75 Boston-area parents, those rich families value children’s healthy diet more than food wasted when children refused to accept those healthier but
In a quote by John Mill, “Does fining a criminal show want of respect for property, or imprisoning him, for personal freedom? Just as unreasonable is it to think that to take the life of a man who has taken that of another is to show want of regard for human life. We show, on the contrary, most emphatically our regard for it, by the adoption of a rule that he who violates that right in another forfeits it for himself, and that while no other crime that he can commit deprives him of his right to live, this shall.” Everyone’s life is precious, but at what price? Is it okay to let a murderer to do as they please? Reader, please take a moment and reflect on this issue. The issue will always be a conflict of beliefs and moral standards. The topic
The movie trailer “Rio 2”, shows a great deal of pathos, ethos, and logos. These rhetorical appeals are hidden throughout the movie trailer; however, they can be recognized if paying attention to the details and montage of the video. I am attracted to this type of movies due to the positive life messages and the innocent, but funny personifications from the characters; therefore, the following rhetorical analysis will give a brief explanation of the scenes, point out the characteristics of persuasive appeals and how people can be easily persuaded by using this technique, and my own interpretation of the message presented in the trailer.
Artificial intelligence should not be continued. Artificial intelligence has many benefits to your society, humans and AI will eventually begin to replace people’s jobs, they have no emotions, and they will outsmart humans so we will not be able to control them.
Facebook final rhetorical appeal is logos, or the meaning of what you’re posting and the reasoning you chose to use that post to make your case. Even though Facebook doesn’t have standards, the human appeal to have a logical and solid, reasonable arguments will. The reason we post something on Facebook is for other people to see what we like or believe in and try to get them to like it too and the easiest way to see if someone agrees is the “share” button on Facebook. By sharing one of your friends post it’s a symbol of trust in a sense meaning you agree with what they’re posting.
In a persuasive essay, rhetorical appeals are a very important tool to influence the audience toward the author’s perspective. The three rhetorical appeals, which were first developed by Aristotle, are pathos, logos, and ethos. Pathos appeals to the emotions of the audience, logos appeals to the facts or evidence and ethos exhibits the credibility of the writer.
Humans desire the truth and nothing but the complete truth. Humans buy into anything if they want to believe it. Fake news and false information is nothing new, but with social media it has become more common and more dangerous. Before the 2016 presidential elections Russia began creating ‘troll farms’ intending to sway americans opinions and create havoc. Troll farming is affecting our society without people even realizing it and social media apps need to improve their efforts on banning these accounts.
According to Forrest Stroud (2016) fake news is “false information or propaganda published under the guise of being authentic news”, furthermore these news channels or websites push their fake content to mislead consumers. Fake news has different aspects in it and in this essay I will be discussing the difference between; satirical news; clickbait in social media feeds ;false balance in news reporting and outright invented news. “Satirical news is a genre that employs humour when making commentary on individuals or activities and their perceived vices, shortcomings, or mistakes” (Marisa A, 2017). Annexure A is an example of satirical news, where President Donald Trump allegedly posted on twitter addressing a certain ethnic group, telling them to leave the country. This article was posted on a site known for satirical news therefore it is not trusted.
After reading The Elusive Big Idea by Neal Gabler social media pops up in your mind. Wondering thought goes in side of your mind about fake news on social media. Thinking about the future of fake news, Americans worry if fake news is getting out of hand, why are we getting confused, why do we not know what is real and fake when it comes to the news we see on FaceBook or another social media. What are the effect of fake news, when did fake news come upon the world, and how are we able to stop this after reading a article from Joshua Benton about Get serious about getting rid of fake news we are able to figure it out. Also will we able to know what is real news and what is fake news.
Perpetuating Fake News and The Consequences of It: A Textual Analysis of Stephanie Busari’s “How Fake News Does Real Harm”
Social media is a revolutionary way to connect with friends and family through a single app, much like Facebook. Also allowing the public to be more informed on current events, whether that is an issue in today’s society, all the way to a heartwarming story or a funny video. This sounds amazing and the fact that this type of news outlet is practically new. An issue arises that involves “fake news” and with that comes many opinions on what to do about it. I believe that people browsing these platforms should have a little bit of skepticism behind each story and if the topic truly intrigues someone then they should look into the topic on a reliable resource before passing on the authors misinformation.
The presence of social media is a large contributing factor in the release of fake