Sherry Turgle
In Sherry Turkle’s case study, Turkle’s purpose is to inform the audience that technology is widening the gap between connection and conversation. She is an advocate for conversation and she supports her claim that face-to-face conversation is more beneficial than communicating with technology by using research, science, and first-hand accounts. Turkle also wants us to change how we use technology as a way to communicate because she states the problems associated with it but she also gives specific solutions to this on-going problem. She does not want to discourage the audience from using technology, but just to alert them the negative effects it has on their communication skills. The audience includes the audience that reads the New York
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For example, Turkle makes the point that people use social media as way to feel like someone is listening to them. “… I believe this feeling helps explain why it is so appealing to have a Facebook page or Twitter feed – each provides so many automatic listeners …” She backs this statement by using facts about how researchers are trying to capitalize off of our need for “companionship without the demands of relationship.” Another way she appeals to the audience is through style and sentence length. Her style of writing is very colloquial and conversational. Her word choice is not extremely academic and her sentences are concise and straight-forward. “So in order to feel more, and to feel more like ourselves, we connect.” This sentence is easy to read and to understand Turkle’s reasoning. Lastly she uses ethos effectively because she establishes credibility with her education and occupation. The audience is more likely to listen and learn from her claim knowing her education and occupation and how that connects to her genre and subject/topic. She uses logos to her advantage by refraining from opinionated statements by uses logical statements instead. She supports all of her claims by using research and studies. These techniques allow for Turkle to convey her purpose to the audience most
For example, Turkle makes the point that people use social media as way to feel like someone is listening to them. “… I believe this feeling helps explain why it is so appealing to have a Facebook page or Twitter feed – each provides so many automatic listeners …” She backs this statement by using facts about how researchers are trying to capitalize off of our need for “companionship without the demands of relationship.” Another way she appeals to the audience is through style and sentence length. Her style of writing is very colloquial and conversational. Her word choice is not extremely academic and her sentences are concise and straight-forward. “So in order to feel more, and to feel more like ourselves, we connect.” This sentence is easy to read and to understand Turkle’s reasoning. Lastly she uses ethos effectively because she establishes credibility with her education and occupation. The audience is more likely to listen and learn from her claim knowing her education and occupation and how that connects to her genre and subject/topic. She uses logos to her advantage by refraining from opinionated statements by uses logical statements instead. She supports all of her claims by using research and studies. These techniques allow for Turkle to convey her purpose to the audience most