PORPUSIVE COMMUNICATION CCJE

GE2(155) SUMAGAYSAY, KIM IVAN

SEPTEMBER,01,2022
ACTIVITY 1(WEEK 4-5)
QUESTIONS:
1.How does Sherrie Turkle support her claim that we have “sacrificed conversation for mere
connection “expecting” more from technology and less from another”?
ANSWER: Turkle backs up her claims using rhetorical devices like logos, Kairos, and ethos.
First, Turkle provides logical justification for her main argument through logos, which both
supports and refutes it.
2.Explain how technology has helped us clean up the messines and simplify the demands of
human relationship. Offer examples from the article to support your answer.
ANSWER: In which the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Abby Rockefeller Mauzé
Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology explores our fascination with
technology and how it affects our social and emotional life.
3.Why does Turkle compare online communication with drinking? ” We are tempted to think
that our little ‘sips’ of online connection add up to a big gulp of reveal conversation.”
ANSWER: She is saying that instead of engaging in conversation or acting socially, individuals
prefer to stay away from social situations and instead turn to their cellphones, Facebook,
social media, etc. We have developed the practice of cleaning up human connections with
technology, and switching from dialogue to connection is a part of this, but doing so
shortchanges us. Worse, it appears that over time we stop caring and forget there is a
difference.
4.How does Turkle establish her credibility?
ANSWER: Turkle backs up her point first with ethos to establish her authority, then with logos
to support her reasoning, and finally with pathos to connect with and emote the reader. To
evoke the sentiments of her audience about the subject, Turkle adopts an emotional tone.