I had no idea this was a feature of Google until I read the reading! In my opinion, I think the Filter Bubble is good and bad. "The Filter Bubble" reading told us that Google filters our searches to only ones that fit us best personally, and someone else gets their own personal search list. Making everyone's search results personalized based upon preferences makes sense considering everyone is different and have their own views and personalities. However, aren't we missing out on valuable information we wish to learn about?
For an example, in the reading, it stated that Google will filter an environmental activist's search results to ones they appeal to most such as, "Proof of Climate Change." This is very helpful to them if they want to
Judy blume use these Rhetorical Strategies in a virtuous way to guide her audience threw every thought process every emotion in the article , every thought that makes you think and reflect on what you just read and how it makes you feel and see society has what it really is. Blume article is really well write, she knows what say that is not to over the top to come off bitter and rude against the censors. blume is asking us to re think the way in which is when something is unknown and controversial to us, that we would shy away but instead, take it head on and embrace it immerse our self’s in it and explain it to our younger generation and educate them on the unknown to so can bark on their own quest and expand their minds.
Having the author’s purpose is vital to knowing how informative, opinionated, or factual the article ...
The article was effective because of the use of examples to help readers relate to research that many would otherwise find boring.
My first thing I am going to talk about from the article is how the book is about discrimination,
The authors are using credentials and conclusions of someone to vouch for their argument. For example, Lukianoff and Haidt explain that public figures like “Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Maher have publicly condemned the oversensitivity of college students, saying too many of them can’t take a joke”. By public figures explaining the relevance of college campuses and how attention must be increased strengthens the argument, because it is bringing attention to the issues of freedom of speech. Lukianoff and Haidt also provide examples of events being canceled, because of protests. Based on a TV commercial an event was canceled because the “’program [was] dividing people and would make for an uncomfortable and possibly unsafe environment’”. This example shows how many events, words, subjects, will cause discomfort to people causing them to be canceled. However, the examples provided shows how many people are missing out on positive learning experiences. By showing examples, it strengthens the argument by allowing the reader to realize campuses are harming students and their experiences to
The publication of The Round House by Louise Erdrich serves as a literary feat and national victory for sexual assault survivors and activists through the author 's realistic depiction and exploration into the brutal effects that domestic violence has on a victim, family, and community. In The Round House, Geraldine 's traumatic assault during the summer of 1988 is not to be treated as an isolated incident, but a common occurrence that has affected millions of Americans and evolved into a national domestic violence crisis. The lasting emotional, mental, and relational effect of sexual assault and trauma are critical matters that are rarely explicated in modern literature, much
Carr uses what society relies and trust the most to construct thought against what we have always been comfortable thinking. That the internet and Google may actually have an adverse affect on society and personal thought. It takes a great deal of rhetorical appeal to break out of human’s comfortable ideology and really think about what is actually going on. Pathos is a cleaver way to appeal to an audience and Carr does an amazing job using it. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” makes use of the rhetorical appeal pathos, to effectively deliver Nicholas Carr’s personal beliefs and concerns to the
Carr, Nicholas. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” The New Humanities Reader. 4th Boston: Wadsworth, 2012. 67-74. Print
Both articles use highly charged language to create an emotional response from their readers. Levy uses words like revealing, exposed and intimate making the reader feel they are baring themselves for the world to see. Levy catches the reader’s attention when he asks the question, “What could be more revealing than a list of one’s search queries?” Readers might become paranoid with this question prompting them to wonder who examines their search logs. Levy causes the reader to feel exposed declaring, “The intimacy of our searches has led…other privacy experts to urge companies like Google [and others] not to retain such logs” which shows that even experts feel privacy laws have been breached and are imploring them to change their policies.
The book I chose to read is The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From Us by Eli Pariser. Pariser did a good job grasping my attention into this book. All the way through the text he used numerous examples from several credible outside sources to initiate these topics, ideas, problems, benefits, and solutions of the filter bubble. The text had an assortment of background stories and easily understood introductions allowing myself to understand the subject with ease. In addition Pariser avoided most of the technical jargon that only he could understand from being educated on the subject and having a background on Internet algorithms, formatting, and website administration. Pariser managed to draw me into the book using not only this easy to follow wording, but also because the subject of personalization and filtering of the internet was a recent concept to me, being one of the many people that at first thought we had almost limitless access to anything on the Internet. Since this day and age seem to revolve around technology and Internet use, the book appealed to me even more...
Should people be able to use Google or any other search engine to find information other than thinking and going to the library? In my opinion I think we people should use search engines as an advantage because when you search for something you can get facts about things you want to know instead of going to the library, its faster and better. According to the article, Is Google Making Us Stupid? Says that Google makes us lose are intelligence well I disagree, Google can give people information and tell us what we need to know.
One piece of the article that I found interesting was on page 138, “Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people are in a position to understand what is being lost. The future of the planet concerns all of us, and all of us should do what we can to protect it. As I told the foresters, and the women, you don’t need a diploma to plant a tree,” (pg. 138, chapter 6). This paragraph, to me, was the most influential part of all the readings. It shows that individuals who have an education should encourage others to do beneficial actions for the environment. It also sheds light that ALL people can work to make the Earth a clean, nurturing place, no matter who a person is, or where they reside in the world. Granted, more programs need to be available to assist individuals in making a positive change, but then it would be just that easier to help improve environmental
Andrews also relates to the general audience and draws them in by discussing about well known, and frequently visited websites that collect our data such as Facebook, Dictionary.com, AOL, Google and many more. It is quite impossible for anyone to be unable to relate to this article; anyone with a cellphone, computer, or any internet access must have used at least one of these websites. On the other hand, Mangu-Ward speaks to the general audience in a different way. By comparing an unfamiliar issue of the Taliban’s ban of eating ice cream to a more familiar situation of Boston mothers who wish to ban ice cream trucks, she allows the general readers to connect with her writing. More specifically, Mangu-Ward tries to connect with the general American readers. With strong Libertarian views, she shows her patriotism by writing about the Boston Tea Party to explain her point of view. Although the audience for both articles is general, The War on Negative Liberty seems to be specifically for American readers due to Mangu-Ward’s strong
Now all of these articles have their own specific goals and information they are trying to find, but they all have two major things in common.
says it refers to discover moral values and better care of the earth as well as to