Marina Wirth Mr. Bishop Composition II: Technical Writing 20 March 2013 Shakespeare once said “We are comsum’d by that which we were nourish’d by” (qtd. in Turkle SR6). Although we are hundreds of years past Shakespeare’s time‚ this quote could not be any more pertinent to today’s society. In Sherry Turkle’s article in the New York Times‚ she states‚ “We have sacrificed conversation for mere connection‚” (SR6)‚ meaning that we are all so consumed by technology that we no longer have the
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In the introduction to her book‚ The “Tethered Self: Technology Reinvents Intimacy and Solitude” (2001)‚ Sherry Turkle‚ an MIT professor suggest that the online personas have negative effects on the growth of a healthy individual‚ healthy relationships‚ and a healthy community. The technology itself and the online personas provide the society a troubling effect. She gives her readers a list of effects in the opening passage. Then‚ she looks at two examples‚ the technological devices‚ and online
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Sherry Turkle’s article “Stop Googling”. Let’s Talk” examines the impact of smartphones on face-to-face conversations and interpersonal connections. Her article focuses on the perspective of college students‚ and she explains how they have developed the ability to multitask between their phones and real-world interactions‚ which has divided attention and detracted from the quality of their conversations. Turkle highlights how the presence of phones diminishes empathy and meaningful connection‚ citing
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world and disconnect from people around them. It means that technology has gradually taken the place of the side by side connection and face-to-face conversation. There is a sense of panic about how technology interferes with human interaction. Sherry Turkle‚ a psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ in her article “Flight From Conversation‚” uses much credible evidence to explain how the increase of connections among people from miles away has led to a loss in face-to-face and eye-to-eye
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Author and Professor of the Social Studies Studies of Science and Technology at MIT‚ Sherry Turkle‚ in her essay “The Flight from Conversation”‚ published in the New York Times on April 22‚ 2012‚ addresses the topic of technology use in society and argues that constant use of technology is degrading the quality of human connections. Through her use of the rhetorical appeals of ethos‚ logos‚ and pathos‚ Turkle presents a sound argument to effectively persuade her audience to reduce their use of technology
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Amanda Dulinky 1/23/13 Reader Response # 1‚ on Alone Together‚ written by Sherry Turkle. Reading the first part of Sherry Turkle’s book Alone Together has brought some interesting questions to my mind. I have often joked about friends of mine who play Massively Multi-player Online Games‚ such as World of Warcraft and Second Life‚ being addicted to their “game of choice”. And after reading & discussing this book‚ while also
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Me Now?” written by Sherry Turkle and published in Forbes magazine in 2007‚ the author writes about how technology affects people today. According to this article‚ Turkle is saying how technology harms to modern life. She says that by using and depending too much on communication devices‚ people lose their real connection to others and important time for themselves. As a result‚ technology is a cause which makes people become more attached to their cell
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Connecting points for Turkle and Gopnik “What changed? That James story helps supply the key. It was trains and telegrams. The railroad ended isolation‚ and packed the metropolis with people whose work was defined by a complicated network of social obligations. “ (Gopnik 157). | “She confined that she would trade in her boyfriend ‘for a sophisticated Japanese robot’ if the robot would produce what she called “caring environment”… I would be happy to produce the illusion that there is somebody
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Imitation and Authenticity Humans can be distinguished in many features from animals. Some might ask what are some unique characteristics that only humans have. While some people believe that the learning differentiates between humans and animals‚ others think that souls and spirits differentiate humans from animals. In “Strange Creatures”‚ Susan Blackmore talks about the idea of imitation and the way that humanity creates “memes” that are a collection of cognitive units of information. Memes
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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
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