Nov 2, 2009

OUTLINE FOR ESSAY

Thesis: digital Representations are eroding our meaning of life.

Heading One: It's Causing us to lose our nature
Arguments:
1) Feed (Destroying us.)
2) Video on my blog about Music (Less confidence)
3) My Expereience trying to use it less
4) addiction (Interview with my bestie, she ignored me a times)
5) Plan on reading an Article about is Google Making Us Stupid.
6) Communicating with others:
-Feed (Titus doesn't know how to communicate with Victoria"
-Carries argument: quotes "Maybe that's why people type "Lol" or "Jk" so much, to lighten the mood and let the other person know not the take it offensively. For example, "Whatever" can be misinterpretted as anger or rudeness if an "Lol" isn't added after it."
- Wall-E (impatient and isolated)
-Person Experience


Heading two: We Are Gaining knowledge
Arguments:
1) The book Everything bad is good for you. (TV & GAMES...If i read more i will add it also)
2) My Observations and Experiences
*not sure about this yet. Only if i get a good person to interviewee* 3) Interview about how it has been a great impact

*TRYING TO THINK OF A THIRD HEADING. MAYBE A SOLUTION TO SOME ADDICTIONS OR HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE USING THESE DEVICES WELL.

1 comment:

  1. I like how you include both perspectives in your essay although you should add on to your thesis if you're going to talk about how digitalization is a good thing as well.

    You have a lot of good examples and evidence. The article about Google sounds really interesting because I've always thought of Google as an educative tool instead of something that dumbs us down.

    You seem to have a lot of stuff you want to talk about so make sure they connect and flow together nicely. I like both ideas you have for your third heading. Maybe do a little of both? Like talk about the aspects that benefit us and those that don't and then give an opinion on how we can limit our use to where we can benefit from it as much as possible (without relying fully on it).

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