What Is Effectual Diction In Alone Together
Tech Talk As little as a hundred years from now our world as we know it will be gone. We will be able to speak multiple languages fluently with the assistance of DARPA and Google, electric cars will drive us freely through highways, and children will hardly know what it's like to learn without the use of a computer. Studies show that children who spend more time on technological devices tend to lack the understanding of emotion and can struggle with forming relationships with others. What does this mean for our future as our world becomes more and more advanced? In Sherry Turkle’s book “Alone Together,” she successfully illustrates her ideas on the excessive and the isolating use of technology by using real examples and effectual diction
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Turkle reflects on how “only a decade ago” teenagers would hang out in local shopping malls and parks to visit and talk to each other, and today people would rather tweet each other than go out with one another (Turkle 91). The use of the word “only” illuminates how we have become so engulfed in our devices today, and makes the audience feel a sense of remorse due to how distant we've become over such a short period of time. This helps Turkle present her ideas in a satisfactory way. She is able to play on the readers more sensitive emotions causing them to reflect on her ideas and feed into what she is saying. She describes technology as a “phantom limb” being that it is so much a part of people, and people can feel when their devices are alerting them even when not on their person (Turkle 92). The choice of words here describes how connected we are to our devices and how distant we are to people around us. Turkle uses the phrase “alone together” condenses her argument down to two words which, helps her audience fathom the points she is makes about technology distancing us from each other. Turkle also states that we start to see our “online life as life itself” (Turkle 92). By including this it gives the reader a chance to reflect on their lives and seek truth about Turkle’s ideas on technology. The diction of the phrase “life itself” gives off an intense emotion because real life is nowhere near real so, this gives insight as to how technology twists people’s perceptions of
Turkle reflects on how “only a decade ago” teenagers would hang out in local shopping malls and parks to visit and talk to each other, and today people would rather tweet each other than go out with one another (Turkle 91). The use of the word “only” illuminates how we have become so engulfed in our devices today, and makes the audience feel a sense of remorse due to how distant we've become over such a short period of time. This helps Turkle present her ideas in a satisfactory way. She is able to play on the readers more sensitive emotions causing them to reflect on her ideas and feed into what she is saying. She describes technology as a “phantom limb” being that it is so much a part of people, and people can feel when their devices are alerting them even when not on their person (Turkle 92). The choice of words here describes how connected we are to our devices and how distant we are to people around us. Turkle uses the phrase “alone together” condenses her argument down to two words which, helps her audience fathom the points she is makes about technology distancing us from each other. Turkle also states that we start to see our “online life as life itself” (Turkle 92). By including this it gives the reader a chance to reflect on their lives and seek truth about Turkle’s ideas on technology. The diction of the phrase “life itself” gives off an intense emotion because real life is nowhere near real so, this gives insight as to how technology twists people’s perceptions of