Reading Strategies: Why Privacy Matters
Reading Strategies: Context
Title: Why Privacy Matters
Historical context: The speech has some more recent historical context as the author cites the importance of privacy and how it relates to modern events, such as the Snowden leaks. It's worth also mentioning that Glenn Greenwald was to one who received some of the "sensitive documents" that were leaked.
Author (list as much info as you can): Glenn Greenwald is a journalist who worked at the Guardian and received recognition when he came into possession of NSA documents that revealed the collection of cell phone metadata that was being required of Verizon to produce to the intelligence agency.
Date of publication: October of 2014
Place of publication: TedTalks: TEDGlobal 2014 …show more content…
"Over the last 16 months, as I've debated this issue around the world." This statement tries to persuade the audience into assuming he knows has a lot of confidence in his argument.
This strategy is pretty clear, the author plays on the emotion of fear. We can see this in the way he used a quote from the CEO of Google, who quote of. "If you're doing something that you don't want other people to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." This quoted is framed in a way that implies that Google is aware of its users private actions online.
The logical approach taken during the speech can be seen when the author cites "dozens of psychological studies" related to the way people behave when being watched. This piece of the argument tries to lend the logical credibility of various psychological studies to the main appeal of the argument.
There are a number of really clear Kairos strategies implemented in the speech. One good example is when the author George Orwell is brought up, his older writings and their similarities to issues we have in the present are almost made out to be a comparison. This links what may be an older or "timeless" argument and applies it to a present
Title: Why Privacy Matters
Historical context: The speech has some more recent historical context as the author cites the importance of privacy and how it relates to modern events, such as the Snowden leaks. It's worth also mentioning that Glenn Greenwald was to one who received some of the "sensitive documents" that were leaked.
Author (list as much info as you can): Glenn Greenwald is a journalist who worked at the Guardian and received recognition when he came into possession of NSA documents that revealed the collection of cell phone metadata that was being required of Verizon to produce to the intelligence agency.
Date of publication: October of 2014
Place of publication: TedTalks: TEDGlobal 2014 …show more content…
"Over the last 16 months, as I've debated this issue around the world." This statement tries to persuade the audience into assuming he knows has a lot of confidence in his argument.
This strategy is pretty clear, the author plays on the emotion of fear. We can see this in the way he used a quote from the CEO of Google, who quote of. "If you're doing something that you don't want other people to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." This quoted is framed in a way that implies that Google is aware of its users private actions online.
The logical approach taken during the speech can be seen when the author cites "dozens of psychological studies" related to the way people behave when being watched. This piece of the argument tries to lend the logical credibility of various psychological studies to the main appeal of the argument.
There are a number of really clear Kairos strategies implemented in the speech. One good example is when the author George Orwell is brought up, his older writings and their similarities to issues we have in the present are almost made out to be a comparison. This links what may be an older or "timeless" argument and applies it to a present