Saskia Character

In “Impression Management in a Networked Setting”, the reading focuses on how people and mainly adolescents project a type of fade on social media sites. The author states how many young people today are sad, but when on Facebook only take happy looking selfies and hide their true feelings, so they can get more likes from friends. And even how your social media profile page can make a good, or bad impression for a future employer; forcing teens to be more warry about what pictures, videos and reshares that are on their profile page. In the book, it goes into the scenario that teenagers

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.

A tragedy typically illustrates the downfall of the protagonist, who is usually a person of good standing, through one or a series of tragic incidents that he or she does not have control over. The protagonist usually has a wish to achieve some goal but encounters obstacles along the way. The outcome is that the protagonist is unable to overcome these challenges and therefore suffers a change in fortune and experiences a tragic ending.

The main argument of the reading "And Then She Texted Me" by Ilana Gershon is how people in today's world breakup through social media and how social business is accomplished through retelling these breakup conversations. In this reading Gershon includes an actual breakup conversation over IM that was sent to her over email. This piece supports the main argument of the reading by providing evidence of breakups over technology becoming more evident in this day of age.

For example, in the first chapter of the book Titus and his friends cannot socialize with anyone in person, as the use of the Feed has caused all “interaction” to take place on technological devices (5). Rather than blaming himself for not being able to socialize properly, Titus blames the Feed for his problems. Anderson makes a link here to our current forms of social interaction, where more and more teenagers are engaging through social media rather than actual face-to-face conversations. In some of the most bizarre cases of social interaction displayed in the novel, many of the characters chat using their feeds even when they are less than a few feet from each other. On page 36 of the text, Titus and Violet “chat” while experimenting with the forces of gravity, “You don’t look like you’re having fun, I chatted her” (36). Titus, in particular, resorts to the safeness of the Feed to interact, embodying the loss in traditional human communication that his society has adopted. In another compelling example later in the text, Titus is amazed when his friend Loga “uses her hands and stuff” to narrate a story, “and her eyes were vacant like she was seeing some other world” (58). The Feed has remained shut down during this scene, resulting in many of the characters (besides Titus) to show signs of imagination and creativity, traits that cease

This novel also portrays to us social media’s role in tarnishing reality and making us question our own thoughts using Ember as a vehicle to demonstrate this ulterior motive. Ashala states after Ember has fiddled (fiddled is a bit informal, interfered would be better) with her memory, “…my mind had gathered up a bunch of fragmented experiences and pieces of knowledge and arranged them into a pattern that made sense, except that pattern had formed a flawed picture of reality” (Ref?). This creates the impression that just as Ember has flawed Ashala’s reality, social media can do similar things as they share the same purpose, manipulating our minds to get the desired response. In addition to the awareness of the media’s role in scrambling our thoughts and presenting an altered representation of reality, we are also made aware of how media is a destructive

The use of technology has increased rapidly as time has gone by.  In “Growing Up Tethered”, Turkle proves that the young generation need to be connected at all times by relying on their phones a lot. Reality is now based on technology, which people now live off of. Turkle’s argument in “Growing up Tethered” was used in the form of a book, with a well-organized smoothly transitioned article telling of the disconnection of the world we live in today, due to technologies such as cell phones, and social networks. We are slowly becoming a society of distance amongst each other with face to face conversations being limited to 20minutes phone conversations, and on social network sights we are making a portrayal of a person who we are

The author also tries to add the sense of hopelessness when Dr.Sasaki, the only uninjured doctor began to rush to help the injured. “Dr. Sasaki worked without method,taking those who were nearest him first and he noticed that the corridor seemed to be getting more and more crowded...he decided that all he could hope to do was to stop people from bleeding to death” (Hersey 25). Under the circumstances, Dr.Sasaki begins to realize that there were not enough doctors and nurses because they too were affected by the noiseless flash. He realizes only the people who were injured not as severely can be saved while the seriously injured were left to die. This makes the readers want to feel sympathy towards the Hiroshima citizens.

Modern Romance, by Aziz Ansari, is absolutely a relevant study for this project. This is because of its relationship to new media, which relates to the course, and dating, which relates to all of society. The book applies to the course in several ways; first, the overall theme of the book relates to people in younger generations becoming more and more reliant on social media and dating websites to try and find love. Ansari delves deep into different aspects of media used in dating, as well as putting in serious research on social sciences to to analyze the cultural impact of new media, which is reaches much farther than one might think. There are several concepts we have learned in this course that relate to the book, including the units

Silva effectively uses rhetorical appeals throughout the article to convey her stance on the side effects of social media. She uses her credibility, emotion, and statistics to open the eyes of many and hammer in on each factor of self-esteem it effects.

Brandon Stanton the author of Humans of New York successfully used pathos and ethos to explain his subject’s stories through the multimodal genre in todays social media world. Using pop culture, Humans of New York became a household name for expressing some difficult material happening in todays society. HONY became popular because the use of online sources to spark a conversation about issues in the world, has increased as well as the use of ethos and pathos in a post. Nearly eight to ten Americans are on Facebook (Greenwood), the possibly of people seeing these social issues online is increasing tremendously. The use for technology is rise as well as the human connection through the internet. Being able to connect to across the other side

1.      Why have the negotiations so far failed to result in an agreement?  Is the formation of the JV between Nora and Sakari the best option for both companies to achieve their respective objectives?

Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.” A quote from a popularly known author, Richelle E. Goodrich. We speak not only from our words but from our expressions. Many time, these expressions are unknown and are just caught upon from our surroundings. Our brain takes in this information and we do not really know how these expressions developed. In our day to day verbal activities, we follow up with so many non-verbal ques like the sounds we make following our words, or the way we pronounce these words. The use of pitch and pace of our voice and words to make interesting conversations. The clothing we wear based on the social norms we follow or just based on our culture or traditions. The use of our distance to known and unknown people. The use of eye contact to express the level of intensifications, the actual emphasis of the emotion running in the brain at the time. The uses of pauses in our speech and the judging of the expressions on other peoples faces. Misjudging of emotions carried along with another emotion because of the lack of understanding of mixed emotions, to give which emotion the priority during that situation. This media analysis focuses on the nonverbal communication and its different aspects in the movie “Inside Out”. Inside out is a movie about a girl and the five major emotions that control her life based on daily situations she faces. This movie is enriched with nonverbal communication as the emotions are

“Untitled” by Paul Kuczynski also contains satire, however the author of this portrait uses satire to depict the theme of isolation, instead of misery, poverty, ruin and neglect. This simple, yet thought provoking picture, shows a man looking through a periscope that is shaped like the Facebook symbol, to see through a window above an open door. The door is not barricaded in any way, shape or form, so the man is able to walk outside and see what is going on in the world first hand. Instead, he chooses to stay inside by himself and view the world through Facebook. Through “Untitled,” Kuczynski conveys the message that social media interaction is overtaking physical interaction. People are more likely to go on social media to find out what is happening than to go out and experience it themselves. Kuczynski’s painting greatly showcases that even in its simplicity.

What is the definition of sassy? Lively,bold, and full of spirit ;cheeky.When you hear the word sassy, who do you think of ?So,let me take you back to the childhood of me I was labeled unique. I always had this perky intriguing spirit, and I could be friends with everyone.I was a sweetheart, and I was able to connect with everyone.In middle school I was friends with my peers and older kids. I never had a nasty attitude towards people, and it shocked everyone because they expected a nice looking girl to be mean. I never understood why attractive females had negative vibes, but in this superficial world I decided to be myself and stay kind but still have my sassiness.When displaying my trait, it’s shown through my voice, clothes, and appearance.