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     A quick check on networking site is becoming the norm verses actually picking up the phone and calling the person you are catching up with. Sherry Turkle‚ in her essay “Can You Hear Me Now?‚” discusses points and personal experiences that persuade the reader that today’s society is becoming “more connected- or more alienated”‚ than ever before. Turkle utilizes the pathos appeal by using the rhetorical appeals of anecdotes‚ assertion‚ and reasoning. She relies heavily on the use of pathos throughout

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    communication media generates distrust therefore makes people feel lonely? The essay “The Flight from Conversation” written by Sherry Turkle gives some cues to interpret this question. On one hand‚ Turkle mentions the thing people value the most is what they are interested in (Sherry Turkle‚ 334). She believes people are isolated from others to avoid outside disturbances (Sherry Turkle‚ 335). This “Bubble world” generates a sense of distance from others‚ which pushes us all further apart. Alarmingly People

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    Digital Demands

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    Critique on Digital Demands Sherry Turkle describes how we are constantly connected to our phones‚ the internet‚ and also our computers. She describes how it is getting worse with all the people as we cannot enjoy the simple‚ pleasuring tasks that we used to enjoy before. When reading her interview it is very easy to visualize how things have changed. Turkle‚ who has worked at MIT for 30 years‚ says that students have changed over the 25 years of having technology and that it is not the same as

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    “Flight from Conversation‚” the M.I.T psychologist and professor‚ Sherry Turkle reveals the trends of a plugged-in life that are part of in our technological universe; at the same time‚ she clearly shows that technologies provide the illusion of “companionship without the demands of relationship‚” making people feel lonely even when they connect with others. Taking a stand as a partisan for communication as she states‚ Turkle not only worries about this tendency to substitute connection for conversation

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    texting and driving or walking and texting. Turkle explains how some people use technology as an escape from the real world by creating their own virtual lives. Another one of her points is that people can easily lie about who they are on social media‚ and it’s hard to know what is real and what isn’t. She concludes her essay by talking about a kid named Brad who has freed himself from technology by simply rather talking to people on the telephone. Although Turkle doesn’t expand much on how the use of

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    Sherry Turkle states that communication is important in any relationships and the idea that technology changes the way we communicate isn’t for the better in fact it creates a distraction to the relationship and the world around us. The chapter “Friendship” by Sherry Turkle explains how technology have interrupted friendships over the years and how people now care about media rather than friendship. Turkle states how technology affected the communication between people and their social skills‚ it

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    Compare and Contrast I will be comparing the two stories of David Gelernter and Sherry Turkle. Gelernter’s story explains why children who use computers in schools are not learning basic skills‚ while Turkle’s story tells why children who use computers in school are actually changing the way people think in life. I will be showing their similarities throughout my paper. Both Gelernter and Turkle talk about using computers in the school system. They both believe that this does not help anyone learn

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    Turkle uses the second section of her book titled “Of Dreams and Beast” to continue to analyze how the computer programs are creating human-like experiences for its users. Turkle strategically examines this theory by making the claim that humans are unknowingly giving computers human qualities as we increase our usage of computer software. In order to efficiently deliver this argument‚ Turkle discuss how humans began to interact in the online communities called MUDs (Multi-user dimension or Multi-user

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    In the essay the bombardment of first hand sources and personal experience shine in this essay. Turkle talks about how cell phones have connected all of us virtual but has separate us physically. In the beginning of the essay Turkle states she has been studying for 15 years how cell phones has impacted people lives showing us her dedication to find every impact of the new technology. Turkle talks about how the young generation coming into new workplaces “fear” conversation and the way they keep

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    Cyberspace and Identity

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    Cyberspace and Identity In her article‚ Cyberspace and Identity‚ Sherry Turkle implies that the various personas that we put up through the internet have helped people express different parts of their personalities. While it is healthy to express these "multiple selves‚" it is also important that these selves recognize each other in order to form unity. Cyberspace has greatly impacted our identities. The anonymity of the internet has made it simple for us to create any identity of our choosing

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