Texting With Friends By Susan Campbelle: Article Analysis

Importantly, Cohen’s main argument is that monsters are central, he chooses to solve in his paragraphs if monsters are even real after all. Also, his monster theory launches a counter-argument, he pushes his readers to either believe in the monster theory or not. The reader would have to choose whether monsters exist and whether to believe or ignore Cohen’s argument. Cohen’s ideas on monsters are also put together so that the readers can focus on whether or not his claims or valid. For example, the author introduces his first claim by testing the reader's judgments. Doing that brings out the anxiety that pervades not only his essay but also his audience's minds. His first claim he is full of purpose he states,“What I propose here is a sketch of a new modus legend” (3). By starting with a rather abrupt announcement, he lays out his objective

Fallows appears to have written this editorial based on her examination of a change that has a occurred in our society, and a wonder of how this change affects the people, specifically the children, involved. In the year 2013, when this editorial was written, according to the PewResearch Center, cell phone usage among adults was at 91% up from 65% in 2004. In the same year, other articles emerged about the negative affects of cell phone usage among adults when around children. One article, published in The Guardian, stated that “parents should stop checking their mobiles and listen to their children when they are talking to them.” Fallows opens her editorial with an observation she has when walking through her neighborhood with her grandson. She notices that the adults she sees are not talking with their children but talking on the phone or texting.

In “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” Cohen states that monsters are created by the “time, feeling, and place it was made.” (4) It’s developed by a cultural moment at the time in which the monster was created. If you read into thesis number two you will see that a monster never dies. If the monster dies, there is always a good chance it will come back. Thesis three shows us that monsters seem to appear at a time of crisis, which is out of the ordinary. In thesis four, Cohen explains that the monsters are like humans, but they don’t deserve the same treatment as us because they are out of the ordinary. Most of the monsters are based on “cultural, political, economic, sexual, or racial differences.” (7) In thesis five there are borders that don’t

According to Sherry Turkle in her essay “Growing Up Tethered,” children are too attached to their cell phones. Cell phones have began causing great issues on the teenagers in today’s society that include: not answering calls, separation, anxiety, and social media. Turkle interviewed many teenagers about certain topics that have to do with their cell phone. These teenagers brought up that they find their cell phones to be a break from their parents. Their parents find them to be a safe zone, they expect their child to answer the phone every time they call them.

One of her views on Children with cell phones is that there are so many inappropriate sites on the internet that can be dangerous to a young mind .Giving children this freedom to surf the net without parental supervision is an open door to exposing children to information they are not mature enough to obtain. The most worrisome aspect of giving cell phones to children is the rise of “cyberbullying”. In one study, researcher Elizabeth Englander found that by middle school 90% of children

On September 24, 2015, Susan Dominus wrote for The New York Times in the magazine section, Motherhood, Screened Off. This article is based on Dominus’ view of parenting, smartphones, and children. Susan Dominus compared her childhood with the childhood of her children. Of Dominus’ belief that the relationship between parents and children have always been the same, smartphones are just the newest object onto which people displace their parental guilt. Susan Dominus uses imagery of her own childhood to explain that parents should not be chastised for developing more attention to their smartphones because it does not mean that parents are distracted by them.

Kate Hafner’s article, “Texting May Be Taking a Toll” claims that texting is an issue to teenagers around the world. As an illustration, Hafner starts the article by identifying that teenagers send a drastic amount of texts in their everyday lives. according to the Nielsen Company, “American teenagers sent and received an average of 2,272 text messages per month in the fourth quarter of 2008”(1). This is just one of the examples of many that portrays teenagers around the world send many text messages. Along with teenagers sending many texts a day, hafner also shows in this article that texting is affecting teenager's life in many different ways for example, preventing teenagers' way of becoming independent. Just as professor Turkle presented,

    (Introduction) “Put down the phone, turn off your the laptop, and do something-anything-that doesn’t involve a screen” (Twenge 63). It is astonishing the amount of time teens spend on phones. Jean Twenge discusses the effects smartphone usage has created among the younger and past generations in the article, “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation”. The purpose of Twenge’s article is to aware readers about the many consequences the smartphone usage has impacted generations.

The next thesis proposed by Cohen is that a monster is the harbinger of category crisis. In order to feel comfortable about places, people, and things in the word, we tend to group things into categories. All of these are placed in categories typically by physical appearance and certain traits that tend to stick out. Well, what’s scary about monsters is that they tend to be unnatural and not just fit into one category, but rather many different categories. One of the most common characters described by this thesis is Count Dracula, a monster that is neither dead nor alive. When one cannot be distinguished into a basic category this tends to frighten us because it goes against one of our common norms. He breaks our human-made laws of nature. Along with the violations of our norm groups, monsters also tend as an act to forewarn our cultures of crisis. The creator of Frankenstein can be seen as an act to

“Put down the phone, turn off the laptop, and do something-anything-that doesn’t involve a screen” (Twenge 63). It is astonishing the amount of time teens spend on phones. Jean Twenge discusses the negative effects smartphone usage has created among the young and past generations in the article, “Has the Smartphone Destroyed a Generation”. The purpose of Twenge’s article is to aware readers about the many issues the smartphone usage has created on generations. Twenge narrates different stories about young teen’s experiences with phones and social media. Twenge also provides readers with statistics and some studies of many effects caused by smartphones. Twenge gives emphasize to differences between generations. According to Twenge, today’s

Re: “Why I Hate Cell Phones” by Sara Reihani. Although cell phones seem important at any given time, its true but in today’s world is not more than a distraction for the youth. Back in the years it was a privilege to own a phone and for those who own one they used them just in important moments such as to make important calls. Now in these days whoever that doesn’t have a cell phone is more likely a person who doesn’t have a life simple as that. I agree with Sara Reihani in her editorial “Why I Hate Cell Phones” because it is a distraction for teenagers.

Thesis: The usage of cell phones in modern day society has caused quite the problem for citizens in this generation by being a major distraction, causing addictions, and has sadly became the main resource of communication.

It has become a commonality to deviate from school norms around cell phone as students have been observed texting under their desks or even defiantly during a lecture. Moreover, it is suffice to say that the ownership of the media device is an important step in a child’s process of becoming independent from its parents and teachers. This creates an individualistic identity that is consistent with the Canadian and American value and belief system. Additionally, the ownership of a cellphone among youth is a medium to assert the user’s identity and autonomy, particularly by customizing the ringtones, wallpaper and covers than their adult counterparts

However there had done others study that express the connection between cell phones and different types of biological damage to human body. For example The European Journal of Scientific Research conducted a lab experiment with normal human astrocytes, an LG Verizon cell phone and MRET-Nylon chip. The experiment revealed that normal human astrocytes cell that were exposed to cell phone radiation at a room temperature without the MRET-Nylon chip decreased by 20% less . Igor Smirnov is one of the author of this experiment and he stated on his article that "It is well documented that cell phones, which emit electromagnetic fields in the radio frequency range, can cause DNA damage, headaches, blurred vision, dizziness,fatigue, short term memory loss, neuralgias, tumors, sleep disturbances, aberrant brain wave activity and changes to cerebral blood flow, including altering the permeability of the blood brain barrier" (Smirnov, 2009). Smirnov statement and finding about the emission of electromagnetic wave from cell phones gives a lot to think. Even-tough it's a small amount of radiation that is being emitted from cell-phones, because they are held very close to the head at the end of a long term usage the risk of brain cancer and others health problems will

In the year 1966, less than 100 million adults across the globe had cell phones. However, as of 2016, there were 4.23 billion mobile phone users across the globe. The exponential increase in mobile phone use has made it urgent to determine whether or not mobile phone radiation poses a health hazard. The question of whether mobile phone radiation affects our health has been surrounded by controversy since the introduction of mobile phones.