Rhetorical Analysis Of You Are Not A Gadget

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In the excerpt the author is trying to warn of the dangers of humanity being blurred with machinery or the internet of the 21st century. You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier is using ethos to convince us of his credibility and the breakdown of the internet. The author expresses that mob rule is threating the individual on the Internet by taking away their humanity and turning them into an algorithm or data. The main argument is that humanity is being lost. The author is breaking down the internet that is called web 2.0. He is investigating how the internet has changed by the anonymity of the internet by saying that it has “demeaned interpersonal interaction” (Lanier, 2010). The individual is being lost in the sea of people riding the wave …show more content…

The very meaning of logos is the logical order that uses “deductive or inductive reasoning” and he uses a pseudo timeline to make his rhetoric clear (University of West Florida, 2016, p. 35). He plays into the emotion of taking something that we are familiar with and the dissecting it and breaking it apart to tell us why this is a bad idea for the freedom of the individual. More freedom makes us less free. This appeals to the pathos portion by connecting to the audience. I’m very open to the persuasion because I was the owner of a web based business that saw the coming of new search engines that would make the winners the first searched. This text expanded and extended my thinking by devising new ways to create better less partial search …show more content…

Fantasy sports, is a perfect example of the destruction of the humanity of sports via the “web 2.0”. The teams are all dismantled and statistics rule rather than affection or loyalty for a team. There are always people that grumble they should have sat this player or I should have started this one as if they were an action figure to be played with. The individual is a mere spreadsheet and is also taking away the team effort of a win. If data is all that matters and not the game than a user should just be watching an Excel sheet. You can watch a spreadsheet on sometimes which is rather sad. Enough with the fantasy sports. I already have my fantasy team the Jacksonville Jaguars. Cheer for the players out there sweating. Cheer for the rush of adrenaline a touchdown gives. Leave the data to the coaches making their teams better during practice. #makemehumanagain

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