Have Smartphones Destroyed A Generation By Jean M. Twenge

In “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” written by, the Psychology Doctor, Jean M. Twenge, she presents the results produced after twenty-five years of research (Twenge para3). Her research was carried out to understand the new generation and explain how it differs to the previous generations (Twenge para9). Although her style is indeed formal, she utilized a heavy amount of credentials, logos, emotional appeal and a factual tone, to enforces her appeal on the parents of the kids of this new

Jean M. Twenge despises smartphones! That is the initial reaction to the title of her article “Have Smartphones Destroyed A generation?” . This will be an analysis of the effectiveness of the article written by Jean M. Twenge about the effects of smartphone usage on younger generations. With modern reliance growing more heavily on smartphones and younger generations being born with these devices around them, Twenge has gathered information pertaining to this new generational adaption that began to

article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, Jean M. Twenge discusses the effects on “generation i” with rising smartphone and social media usage. In the article, she provides multiple statistics to support her claims on what’s happening with the “i generation”, and generations past through social media use. She concludes that while smartphones have some positive social impact on the generation (like lower teen pregnancy rates), there has been real damage to the generation as well. I have concluded

Smartphones and various technologies have become very prominent in todays society. Many teenagers and young adults have grown up watching technology rapidly become more involved with every task the average human does daily. iGen or also known as Generation Z, which is humans born from 1996 to the current year, are the most technology advanced generation there is. This generation grew up with technology and their life’s have been dependent on technology since birth. The term “smartphone” was first

In the article “Have Smart Phones Destroyed a Generation?” Jean M. Twenge discusses that smartphones are highly affecting iGen — the name Twenge call the generation after millennials, highly than the past generations. Smartphone has the tendency of impacting teens lives in this world and in their daily life. Jean M. Twenge explains that the invention of smartphones has radically changed every characteristic of teens lives. Spending more time on screen dramatically impacts or change the behavior of

Jean M. Twenge’s presents a convincing argument in the article “Have smartphones destroyed a generation”. This article goes in depth about how smartphones are destroying a generation. The generation which the article is particularly focused on are iGens. Twenge explains how differently teens spend their time compared to other generation. The text focuses on three key points which alter from other generations; independence, depression and social interactions. Smartphones are at the hands of over

world, you see that teens have probably been around smartphones since they were born. They depend on them and are more attached to phones than actual people. We see in everyday life that teens are glued to their smartphone screens. There are many effects that smartphones are causing on teens now. Jean M. Twenge persuades people to see that smartphones are affecting people negatively by traumatizing young teens. “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” by Jean M. Twenge on The Atlantic in September

In the article, “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation,” Jean M. Twenge uses rhetorical devices and appeals to build her credibility on how smartphones are destroying this generation's teenagers. The author presents several pieces of evidence to prove she’s correct, and shows how teenagers of this generation think and behave differently than their predecessors. Twenge begins her article with a conversation she had with a thirteen year old girl named Athena. She uses expert opinion to show she

In “Have Smartphones ruined a Generation” the author Jean M. Twenge compares 2 different generations and determines that smartphones have changed many aspects in this generation and how people communicate. Jean M. Twenge is a professor of Psychology at San Diego State University, in her past articles she wrote about “how people were happier back then” suggesting that she is more biased towards generations before. And after connecting both articles I believe that she thinks people were happier before

In the article “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” by Jean M. Twenge, published by The Atlantic, and the article “Teens and tech: what happens when students give up smartphones?” by Erin Cotter, published by The Guardian, both authors claim that without technology we could be more content and better our interpersonal relations with others. Twenge writes about life with technology through facts and comparing the Millenials to the newer generation, in which Twenge refers to as the “iGen.” Meanwhile

While cell phones can be very useful, for a growing teen, they may be more harm than good. In her article on teenagers’ use of cell phones, Jean M Twenge points out several of the pros and cons of this new technology. Most of the effects from cell phones revolve around the fact that teens don’t get out of the house as much as previous generations. This trend is because most teens would rather be in their rooms and on their phones. There is no longer a need for a teenager to go see their friends when

American psychologist, Jean M. Twenge in her relevant and informative article, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?,” where she claims that iGen is “on the brink” of a mental health crisis--- the culprit being smartphones. She supports her claim through the use of ethos which emphasizes how knowledgeable she is and thorough her expertise is. This can be seen in the line when she refers to her being a “22-year-old doctoral student in psychology” and her study of “generational differences for

Shaped or Destroyed? Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?, by Jean M. Twenge, was published in the September 2017 Issue of The Atlantic. Twenge discusses the impacts of smartphones in teens (also referred to as “iGen’s”) today and attempts to determine if smartphones have caused a generation to falter in their mental and physical health. The author interviews a 13 year old girl about issues teens are developing due to these devices. She examines the spike in teen suicide rates since the invention

In “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, Jean M. Twenge criticizes how smart phones have negatively transformed today´s post-millennial generation by putting them into a mental-health crisis. The author compares her generation when they were teenagers, with the kids of nowadays who spend most of their time in their phones instead of having social interaction. Twenge also states how this post-millennial generation tends to fall into depression, and homicidal rates have risen due to this technological

who have grown up in a world surrounded by technology. Truly, the members of older generations, including millennials who have had themselves split off from the apparent technology obsessed generation of the youngest millennials, have expressed their concern as to whether or not these vast differences in generations have to do with the unhealthy use of technology. Among those to have analyzed this phenomenon is writer Jean M. Twenge who in her article, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?,” utilizes