Nosedive Analysis

In high school most kids try to fit in or be popular, we ditch our once closest friends for a taste of the good stuff. Others don’t care and move on with life. As humans we feel this constant need to be accepted by people we do and don't know. Now with technology we can get that instant reaction. The world depicted in “Nosedive” it is a very realistic possibility. Just from how we already use social media, feel that need to be liked and how people already act fake most of the time

Since television came into existence, it has evolved into a useful tool to spread ideas, both social and political, and has had a great effect on the generations growing up with these heavily influential shows. To these younger generations, television has taken the role of a teacher, with the task of creating a social construction by which many of us base our personal beliefs and judgments on. This power allows television shows take the opportunity to address problems in a manner that many audiences can take to heart. Many television shows present controversial topics in a comical matter, in some ways to soften the blow of hard-hitting reality at the same time bringing attention to the issue being addressed. In the television show,

We present pasted together parts of our lives to the public, parts of our lives that make us look like winners, likable people. Again, Whitehead helps readers visualize this process through posing questions.“‘Should I wear glasses in my profile pic?’... ‘Do you think it’s working?’ ‘Did you get away with it today?’... ‘Why do you think they call it Survivor?’” (Whitehead 415). The rhetorical questions, again, help his audience to picture themselves going through the same process as the producers, making an obvious winner out of themselves. Whitehead also alludes to a popular reality show, Survivor, in which loser and winner edits are present every episode. This allusion helps readers to compare the processes they go through daily to those of the producers. They string together parts of their lives just as parts of contestants’ lives are strung together to form clear story arcs. Through the use of rhetorical questions, Whitehead clearly engages his audience and has them reflect on their own tendency to “edit” events in their lives.

In this passage, Dustin Kidd opens the reading by admitting to the readers his addiction to social media. Kidd confronts that his morning routine consists of checking his notification on his phone. However, the narrator flips the subject from his social media obsession, to the problems of today’s society. He explains how society persuades people that they are “too skinny” or “too poor” and will never be “good enough.” Not only does he describe the cons of social media, but he also justifies how social media can be a powerful device. The internet can be used as a platform that enables people to stand up for themselves.

In Keller's article, "The Twitter Trap," he discusses the positive and negative issues of social media and technology on today's youth. In his examples, he elaborates on the loss of humanity in how the necessity of real-life situations and conversations that make people alive in their souls is disappearing as social media continues to grow more addictive. With the overwhelming growth of social media, even the deemed "smart students" are losing their ability to pinpoint pattern in situations that to the earlier generation would consider obvious. Overall, Keller's main concern and point of the article states that," … my inner worrywart wonders whether the new technologies overtaking us may be eroding characteristics that are essentially human: our ability to reflect, our pursuit of meaning, genuine empathy, a sense of community connected by something deeper than snark or political affinity."

We live in a world now where we have never been more connected while being more alone. Instead of spending hours on the phone or with our close friends and family, it is now much more convenient to simply tweet, Instagram, or post our feelings on Facebook. Orenstein reveals while she is spending time with her daughter, “ a part of my consciousness had split off and was observing the scene from the outside: this was, I realized excitedly, the perfect opportunity for a tweet” (Orenstein, 347). Orenstein made the conscious, yet somehow detached, decision to post her personal life on social media, instead of fully indulging in the moment. People have allowed social media to overtake both their social lives and

Illusions have been melded into our society, especially through media. On social networks, only the highlights of people’s lives are captured, which creates unattainable standards for those who are exposed to the content. In movies, televisions and novels, people

She later goes on to use these emotions and flip them on the audience to make them feel guilty for these having taken place and not social media itself and uses that for the basis for pathos appeal to the audience. Parker sums up this pathological argument in saying, “It may be that the current pessimism about technology is partly the result of unrealistic expectations that the Internet would somehow set us free”(par. 10). Her logos appeal is also strong. Her logos is based around having the readers use deductive reasoning to see her side of the debate. She cites important real world events and then describes how these have affected the outlook on social media. By showing the audience this trend, she allows the readers to see that social media being seen as (only) bad is just a trend and that there is plenty of good that can come from it. The way she has the audience go about coming to a conclusion using logical reasoning is smart, because she allows the audience to come to their own conclusions based upon her points and does not scare them away by being polarizing Because of her strong use of these rhetorical devises her argument seems to have much more weight than Damon Linker’s.

Social Cohesion is one way that the TV show Black Mirror builds the theme of wanting to feel accepted and the fear of loneliness. In Black Mirror’s episode Nosedive Everyone’s goal is to fake it until they make it. Social class is based on social media ranking, 5 stars. The closer to 5 you are the more popular and successful you are. The closer you are to 1 no one wants to talk to you and does everything they can to avoid you. You aren’t successful. you can’t own a nice car or house. Your score determines your life and the way people treat you. For example, Lacie is one of the main characters in the episode of Black Mirror, Nosedive. To become more successful and be able to get a better house she must improve her rating. Naomi is another main character that used to be Lacie’s ‘best friend,’ when they were little. Naomi is very popular, and happens to be getting married. Lacie posts a picture on social media which sparks Naomi and Lacie’s

In a community who has been persecuted, shunned and harmed for hundreds of years, would you believe the notion that a few members of the same persecuted community are trying to pull itself apart?

In this article Wiedeman interviews and discuses the popular Instagram girl Lilli Hymowitz. Lilli is a 16 year old that has over 8,000 followers on the social media site Instagram (now closer to 22,000). She first became famous for being a young rich equestrian teenager that lives in New York and basically does whatever she wants. Hymowitz lives a very luxurious life filled with many houses and big parties, the kind of life all teenagers want, no curfew, no rules, and what seems to be an unlimited bank account. Wiedeman finds out that she is homeschooled for horse back riding but is yet the most popular girl in her old high school. This just shows that with technological advances and social media a new generation of “popular” has risen without

The specific episode I will be analyzing for my paper is Season 1: Episode 7, Frank Gallagher: Loving husband, devoted father, which is mainly about Frank owing two debt collectors $6,000. He forms a plan of faking his death, because he doesn’t have money to pay them back. Frank needs his family’s help to accomplish this task in order to save his life. My main focus is on the negative stereotypes of poor class

From high school girls desperately trying to be one of cool kids in school to corporate warriors rubbing elbows for that next promotion, nearly everyone has fantasized about being a part of the “in crowd”. What is it that makes the bonds and barriers of “in crowd” so unbreakable? Through sharing stories and reaching conclusions through discussion of those stories, members of small groups develop a common bond that shapes their social reality. An example of this bond is prominent in the CW’s hit show, Gossip Girl, which focuses on the world of high society elite at a private high school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York. Circumstances in Gossip Girl show how concepts in symbolic convergence describe the formation of group bonds

The stand-alone series “Black Mirror”, features an episode titled Nosedive directed by Joe Wright. In the show, a seemingly ideal woman named Lacie Pound lives in a status-obsessed world, and struggles to express herself. At first, Lacie is described as this merry, popular, and fun person to be around. But then we see that Lacie tries to fit in with everybody else, and struggles with that objective. So she begins to have courage in herself to say and do whatever she wants, even if society disagrees with her defiance. In the end, Lacie is finally able to find her voice and express her individuality, even though ultimately she is put behind bars. Therefore, Joe Wright suggests that even though social hierarchy is valued in society, it does not promote one’s self expression or individuality. In other words, Nosedive displays the negative impact of social standings on people who are not a true fit with what society views as perfect.

Most of us use social media to communicate with our family, friends and our loved once. Since almost all of my friends live 8000 mile away, I use Facebook, Instagram, and viber to keep in touch with them. Bur recently I started noticing it has become more than a means of communication. I start posting a picture and obsesses about how many likes I get, checking other peoples Facebook just to see if they have more friends than me, believing every post without questioning if it’s a fact and funny enough I start sending friend request for people I don’t even know. Christine Rosen, a senior editor of the New Atlantis and resident fellow at the Ethics and Public policy Center in Wessington, D.C. on “In the Beginning Was the World”, she wrote how technology is affecting the society’s critical reading ability. Peggy Orenstein, an author and a contributing writer for the New York Times, on “I Tweet, Therefore I Am” she talks about how social media is distracting as from fully live in the moment. Even though the development of technology have increased the quality of life, it also brought undeniable challenges to our society. The constant use of social media and internet has increase society attention-seeking, Distracted, and decries critical reading. The use of social media has increased dramatically throughout the years.