Rhetorical Appeal Of Social Media

According to Cass R Sunstein, in "How Facebook Makes Us Dumber," misinformation is spread by social media outlets and even worse to the modern world. Sunstein also argues that it is group polarization that is responsible for this increase of misinformation spreading. Once people begin to see and know this, this could greatly hinder any sort of personal perspective and lead it to all be centered on what the group thinks. Sunstein also states that once individuals see other posts that agree with their ideology then they become more extreme and thus leads to "a vicious spiral" in their thoughts and actions. However, Sunstein also states that there is something in which we can do to prevent such a thing from happening. He states to "promote a culture

Nowadays it seems there is a constant riff between those who love social media and those who do not; usually between older and younger generations. The classroom, emblematic of this struggle, is where the appropriateness of social media comes into question. Jane Mathison Fife, a professor at Western Kentucky University wrote, “Using Facebook to Teach Rhetorical Analysis,” in Pedagogy argues that frequent Facebook users have strong classical rhetorical analytical skills relating to Ethos, Logos and Pathos. Rhetorical analytical elements were originally described by Aristotle as the writer’s credibility being ethos, an appeal to emotion being pathos and evidence and reason as logos. Like most successful authors, Fife employs the use of rhetorical elements. Throughout the article, she excels in establishing pathos during the beginning of her paper which helps her connect with the audience and establish a good ethos; however, she falls short in building logos as her paper lacks organization and using evidence from familiar sources.

From a few seconds to respond to a friend’s text, countless hours spent gramming, snapchatting, tweeting, posting on Facebook, pinning on Pinterest, and many other forms of social media, teenagers today are non-stop connected to their phones, laptops, tablets, computers, etc., creating or strengthening social bonds. Your social identity is very important today, and the mount of friends you have on facebook, or amount of retweets or likes you get are a sign of your social superiority. This paper aims to evaluate Melissa Healy’s use of rhetorical strategies, such as ethos, pathos, and logos, in “Teenage social media butterflies may not be such a bad idea.” Healy uses rhetorical appeals effectively in her causal argument about adolescents and social relationships teenagers have that deal in result to social media.

In addition from the two previews rhetorical strategies, the article “How Social Media Is Having a Positive Impact on Our Culture” have a good example of rhetorical strategy when it comes to ethos. One example is when “he elaborates how the internet and social media makes society to act upon actions that are never seen before. Also, that the internet is very difficult yet entertaining and we often do not appreciate it as much as we should” (613). By this time, the author is preparing himself to establish his trustworthiness by adding, “consider peer-to-peer networking as just one example, where the tasks are distributed among the group to form a whole” (613). The audience can conclude that he has the knowledge necessary in order to build his

In the chapter “What is Popular Culture and Why Study It?” from the novel The Rhetorical Power of Popular Culture, author Deanna Sellnow deliberates on the influential supremacy of popular culture in our current society. Sellnow wrote this passage to inform those affected by pop culture on a daily basis. Everyday individuals in first world countries are somehow impacted by pop culture. Pop culture’s influential power can often times mold our outlook on the world around us. It is important to realize when pop culture is trying to reevaluate your ethical beliefs so you can have a say in whether or not you want your morals to be altered.

In 2011, New York Times executive editor, Bill Keller, wrote an article entitled, “The Twitter Trap” in which he uses the social media site to discuss its’ impact on society, and the negative ramifications. The article attempts to illustrate the potential dangers of social media on relationships, the functioning of the brain, as well as the education and intelligence of current and future generations. He claims that social media can be dangerous because “innovation comes at a price” and Keller’s concern is that “the price is a piece of ourselves”, which becomes the basis of his argument throughout the article (Keller). Keller’s is directing his article, and consequently his argument towards the New York Times readership, and even more specifically those who are parents of children on social media, as well as general Twitter and social media users.

Moving forward, social media has been a major convenience and reward to virtually everyone. On an individual basis, social media allows friends and family both near and far to communicate with one another. Also, businesses are flourishing through the use of social media. Advertising has never been easier. Horn (2013) states, “Our profession, unlike any time before, is demanding we become social media (…) experts” (1). Horn (2013) also states, “More than half of reporters (55 percent) use Twitter and Facebook to source stories” (1). Social media has greatly benefited business life and personal life.

This article depicts a task that includes understudies in an investigation of the explanatory practices regular in Facebook, making utilization of logical sharp that they have—however by and large don't know about—to instruct the frequently difficult expertise of expository examination. The class talks about articles about Facebook utilize and reclassifies customary Aristotelian explanatory ideas with regards to the outwardly rich and montage like messages that are Facebook profiles. Understudies take their prompts from an anthropologist's investigation of personality portrayal on dormitory ways to investigate logical practices of distortion additionally discernable in Facebook profiles. Understudies and educator note highlights from Facebook

Until now, people all over the world use of rhetoric in many situations. We use of rhetoric to write an essay, a letter to friend, or persuade a member in family. If people know how to use rhetoric correctly in every situation, it could bring a lot of power to the receivers. Based on Dr. William, the rhetoric refers to “the study of the art of persuasion”, and it has three elements “rhetorical appeals”: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. According to our assignment, there are some analysis about how to use rhetoric demonstrate in each video.

Mia, I do agree with your reasoning behind the incorporation and significance of different rhetorical appeals when it comes to a variety of technical communication forms. However, I do believe that "each appeal is as important as the others" despite the heavy use of a single one in a form of technical communication ("Reading: Rhetorical Triangle"). In your example focusing upon art, it is apparent that the rhetorical appeal of pathos is used to emotional grasp the viewer and "establish a 'relationship' with an audience' since art is often regarded by artists as a method to express themselves to the world. However, as viewers and appreciators of art there are often times that we do look upon the artist's appeal to ethos to determine the validity

Cited by Shari Veil, in her 2011 article, “Incorporating Social Media in Risk and Crisis Communication,” “Social media is at its core human communication, possessing characteristics of participation, openness, conversation, community, and connectedness.” This demonstrates how integral social media has become in our daily communication.

Obviously due to recent public events dealing with our political figures, and things we see on social media, when we hear the word rhetoric we often cringe. Yet there are very few that actually have a true grasp of the words meaning. When we first started the semester we heard rhetoric being described as “mere crookery”. Rhetoric is simply the process of making messages and messages made by that process, and these messages are used to influence social attitudes, the values and even actions of the intended audiences. If we look at it in the same lens of Aristotle, rhetoric is to lead us to the best possible truth.

How often do we use social media? Teenagers spend at least nine hours a day on social networking sites. That’s thirty percent of all time spent online dedicated to social media. These numbers are constantly increasing every day. Many of the tweets and posts that we see on Instagram, Facebook, or Twitter use arguments and we don’t even realize it. All of these arguments use ethos, pathos, and logos to make a point. Let’s examine how these three concepts are used on social media.

Preview of Speech: Social media plays a huge role in our society, and it’s not a good thing. To understand its impact, we have to know a few things that come

Since the introduction of Social Media in 1997, Social Media has redefined and radically changed communication and has become an important part of modern day communication. Social Media has made people much more connected to the rest of the world. Furthermore, Social Media has allowed people to interact and stay connected with each other regardless of where they are in the world. Social Media has also allowed people to share information and opinions to a wide audience. In a recent large-scale study conducted by Common Sense Media, Teens spend up to 9 hours consuming media. Social Media has changed how we share information and consume information.