Displaying My Visual Argument In Social Media

The specific audience of my visual presentation was my classmates. My audience is very unique because of the fact that they are all international students studying in the University of Arizona. Also, they all use internet and computer technologies for the purpose of education. This related to the topic I presented which makes both my audience and the argument very unique.

In the visual argument that I created I wanted to portray the idea of deforestation and how it affects the animals and the wildlife living in these forests and other habitats.So In my image I included an endangered red squirrel leaving its destroyed habitat while carrying a bindle. This visual argument's purpose is mostly to inform but can also be persuasive so that people may take action in trying to save wildlife.

Out of the variety of news sources such as TV, radio, or newspapers, one of the popular sources in today’s world is social media. People are getting addicted to and can’t live without social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. They use social media as of where they can post their status but also where they can receive a lot of different news. While social media are spreading any kinds of news such as trend, celebrity or even politics, people easily get the information that is not true called “fake news.” The fake news raises the major problem in social media as the news source. Once people see the news, they tend to believe and share it. Liking can spread out fake news in a second. When people like the news, the activity

4). What are some of the conditions necessary for argument to work best? To work best, a productive and potentially successful argument, whether presented in writing, in speech, or in images, require the following elements: An Issue, An Arguer, Audience, Common Ground and A Forum.

A simple example of this is the fact that Tabrizi utilizes three tables and thirteen figures to in the paper. This enables the reader to understand the information by just referring to the visual aids. A good example of this is Figure 4 on page 19 where Tabrizi uses a flow chart to visually explain his plan for educating community members about breast cancer screening. The visual aid helps get across his idea, which may seem more complicated and takes two pages to explain. Therefore, it is evident that Tabrizi uses visual aids in his thesis as a tool for explaining his

A visual source of media that i chose was a power ball billboard on the side of a highway with the word "believe". The subject for it was the power ball, the lottery game. The Occasion was all the time, this was a billboard meant for 365 days of the year. The audience of the billboard was the people driving on the highway. The purpose was to convince people to buy lottery tickets. I chose this piece because it stood out to me as something easy to understand, it was something that i could explain very easily.

Visual arguments agreeably have more information conveyed through them, opposed to standard written arguments. Interpretation of a visual argument is important for the person presenting the argument, because if the visual gives off an interpretation opposite what the person was trying to argue, they may have failed. I agree that visuals as striking as the one in "How Do Visual Arguments Work?" are frequently used to try to sway people's emotions in order to sway their agreement or disagreement of the topic. I also agree that visual arguments can be better understood by first breaking the visual down and then analyzing each part as an individual piece. While this method seems quite obvious, it also seems to be overlooked often, probably because

The graphics can be interpreted by all audiences. This type of argument is more effective than words because it indirectly is embedding the message from the graphics into the minds of the audience.

In Andrea Lunsford’s article “Visual Arguments,” she talks about how images can be power allies in trying persuade people to your point of view. Taking that into account I chose photos that would elicit a negative response with my first slide. The computer animated image, the rats with tumors, and the tomato with a syringe going into it. While in my second slide the response would be a positive one. The Golden Rice in the person hands, and two pieces of corn.

The eight special features that make visual argument convincing according to Nancy Wood is “Communicate quickly and have immediate and tangible effects on viewers. Invite Viewer Identification and establish common ground through shared values. Engage the emotions of the viewers. Juxtapose materials from different categories so that the viewer will make new links and associations. Employ familiar

Over the decade our generation has become more and more into Social Media. We can post any picture, tweet about our daily lives and comment on everything. However, as you pose for a picture, or tweet about something that happened to you, do you ever think if it interferes with the First Amendment? Most people do not consider that, and sometimes what they posted can lead them into a lot of trouble because it could violate the first amendment. Many argue that first amendment grants us the freedom of speech; however, to what extent should our activity on social media be protected as free speech under the first amendment? The people’s activity on social media should be protected as free speech unless the activity is determined to be an actual threat towards someone because there are different interpretations, our comments reflect our opinions, and the right of free speech is the foundation of our country and forms what this country is about.

Nowadays, a lot of people are using social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler and so on. Since the Internet has propagated rapidly, social media have progressed a lot. The generalization of the internet makes us to live conveniently and fast. People are almost using smart phones, i-phones or comfortable devices which can access to internet. These equipments make us to do social network easily. It helps contact friends, family, and other people even though they live far away. It could be, however, abused, if you don’t use properly. Especially, it is important that we understand and regulate the use of social media by young children.

The internet was invented roughly about 30 years ago by the World Wide Web. However, the first social media came out circa 20 years ago. The name of it was Six Degrees and it was created by Andrew Weinreich in the 1900’s. Six degrees users had the capabilities of uploading a profile, making friends, and sending messages with family and friends. Nevertheless on 2004, Facebook was created by Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old who created the biggest social media that changed the world. Till this day, Facebook probably has up to 2 billion users and still counting. Nonetheless, most people seen on Facebook ranges from their teens to mid-40s, that have the capability of spreading information across the globe setting a chain reaction that created and spread fake news. Social medias’ fake news is spread by a heap of people that are easily convinced by false statements. According to Gretel, “In the midst of a nationwide debate over the proliferation of fake news on social media sites – and, as one 2015 study by the Media Insight Project shows, at a time when nearly 9 in 10 Millennials regularly get news from Facebook – the numbers, at first glance, may point to a bleak, uninformed future.” (n. pag.) Therefore, teens need to use social media to disintegrate some of the repercussions of real news.

In this age of social media, we are constantly worried about being popular. We are driven by “likes,” “comments,” and “followers.” Not caring what our peers thought, our middle school selves posted anything and everything. Now, as seniors and having had access to social media for an abundance of years, we are far more cautious about what we post but not in the way you might imagine. Instagram is a resourceful tool but, if used incorrectly, could impair your social status.

The visual argumentation that I ended up creating was revising the information from my discourse community of a marching band paper and turning it into an infographic. It consists of six components of a marching band that are named and briefly explained, as well as an image of an instrument found in the marching band that correlates to that component. My visual argumentation shows the revision of my discourse paper, has stayed fairly similar to what my design plan has dictated, and followed the principles given through the CRAP design principles.