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Sherry Turkle: Connected, but Alone?
1. In her introduction, Sherry Turkle says, “I embody the central paradox…” What is the paradox she is referring to?
She loves getting texts, and at the same time she believes many people can get a problem by texting.
2. The speaker describes a change in her thinking from the last time she spoke at TED. At first, what did she expect would be the result of online communication?
She expected that knowledge learnt from virtual world or online communication can be used to live better lives in the real world.
3. What does she think about it now?
She believes that technology or online communication will take people to get worst lives in the real world instead of
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13. What does Turkle want people to do? What are the steps she thinks we should take?
Turkle want people to talk each other and develop a more self-aware relationship. Therefore, she suggests several steps that people should take. The first step is starting thinking about the solitude as a good thing. Then people should create the space to have conversation at work and homes. Most importantly, we have to listen to each other even it is the boring information.
14. What do you think about Turkle’s ideas? Do some reflection on the topic and be ready to discuss this with reasons and examples from your own experience.
I strongly agree with Turkle’s ideas that people are afraid of having conversation because of online communication. It happened to me when I was working in Thailand. At first, I used email because I just wanted to check and edit the important information before I sent it to my boss or colleagues. We didn’t want to miss sending essential information so we tried to avoid having real conversation. Moreover, it could be an evidence to confirm that we already did the task.
However, when this process occurred again and again, I realized that I rarely had the real conversation with colleagues and my boss. I thought we were afraid of having conversation because we didn’t have time to think about what they asked, and we were afraid of answering something with incorrect information. Thus, we chose to use
Lyana Beato Professor Deal English 1101 18 November 2016 “The Flight from Conversation” by Sherry Turkle: A Rhetorical Analysis In "The Flight from Conversation," published in The New York Times on April 21, 2012, and written by sociology and personality psychologist, Sherry Turkle, she discusses her concerns on how the world has chosen technological connection over conversation and physical interaction. Turkle informs her readers that “Over the past 15 years, I've studied technologies of mobile connection I've learned that the little devices most of us carry around are so powerful that they change not only what we do, but also who we are” (Sherry Turkle). Turkle helps develop her argument by building a connection to her audience and using personal experiences such as what she has observed from her students in the classroom and the personal experience of others.
2. Identify the main idea in each of the thirteen paragraphs. How is each paragraph related to Zinsser's topic and purpose ?
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The author and esteemed Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sherry Turkle, in the essay, “The Flight from Conversation,” published in the New York Times on April 22, 2012 addresses the topic of conversation versus connection. It argues that technology is interfering with the ability to communicate. Turkle supports her claim first by using ethos to establish her credibility, second by using logos to provide her logic, and finally pathos to relate and move the reader. Turkle establishes a sentimental tone in order to appeal to her audience’s emotions on the topic. The author’s overall purpose is to persuade her audience to be together and to interact in person so that they will
For instance, after a student has told her that they would rather talk to a screen then their own parents about dating advice, she states, “this enthusiasm speaks to how much we have confused conversation with connection and collectively seem to have embraced a new kind of delusion that accepts the stimulation of compassion,” (138). She uses reasoning from her own studies explaining how technology has affected our attitudes and mentality toward certain factors. For example, a high schooler wants to talk to an artificial intelligence program about dating advice rather than another person, such as a parent or sibling because they feel as if they can only trust a computer screen more than their family. In another instance, Turkle incorporates reasoning into why technology has become a big factor in our everyday lives. She states, “In the silence of connection, people are comforted by being in touch with a lot of people. We can’t get enough of one another if we can use technology to keep one another at distances we can control: not too close, not too far, just right,” (137). Here, Turkle reasons that technology is a favorable option to many, in for instance, having a conversation, because one has control of what they are saying, how they are saying it, and when they are saying it. All with the benefit of editing. Turkle says that one would rather be
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2. Identify the author’s main idea(s). In other words, what is the main point the author is attempting to make about the book?
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Sherry Turkle was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1948. She is a professor of Social Studies and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has written many works, such as Alone Together, and this article, The Flight from Conversation, was published in the New York Times in April of 2012. The claim she makes in the article is that communication technology is causing society to lose its ability to have a meaningful conversation. She presents several strong rhetorical strategies, and some weak ones, through logos, ethos, and pathos.
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