Electronic Intimacy Rhetorical Analysis

The reason why Christine Rosen wrote “Electronic Intimacy” is to inform the audience, 30-40 year olds, if the way people communicate with each other really does change our emotional experience as well. Rosen believes that every form of communication as its own significant change to the experience but that our feelings for others do not change. Rosen first starts but tell a story of how she met a friend at summer camp and how they spent years communicating through hand written letters instead of email and texting. She explains that forms of communication like emails and text messages are more instantaneous and efficient while writing a letter provides a moment of thought and reflection. As evidence Rosen uses facts from scientist, like what