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Final Paper
Caitlyn Bettenhausen C. Werry 411 Final Paper 12/13/19 Is Teen Smartphone Use Leading to Health Risks? Roughly twelve years ago, consumers were introduced to Apple’s first model of the iPhone. Additionally, ten years ago consumers began to see other forms of the smartphone such as the first Samsung Galaxy. However, it hasn’t been until …
Reading Response 12/2
To begin, both of these articles were very different in how they established ethos and pathos. In Malcolm Gladwell’s article (“Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted”), Gladwell uses history and stories of the beginning and middle of the Civil Rights Movement to establish both ethos and pathos. Gladwell first provides ethos by …
Reading Response 11/18
When reading the article “Advertising Stereotypes and Gender Representation in Social Networking Sites” by Tortajada et al., it was easy to make connections with what kind of images I see on a daily basis. Because Fotolog is not a comment social networking site for anyone I know, I can relate this site to Instagram. On …
Reading Response 11/4
When analyzing the text (“Do artifacts have politics”) by Langdon Winner, it primarily led me to believe that this was a complex claim worth discussing. From what I can understand from the article, Winner’s main claim is that artifacts such as “technologies and society” have a political value. Winner makes this claim when he includes …
Homework 10/28
As a journalism major, I have brushed upon the topic of fake news often. Further, as an avid user of social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook it is clear that fake news is very present in our lives today. A. I can argue that fake news has been a problem for quite some …
Project Proposal
Caitlyn Bettenhausen C. Werry 411 Proposal 10/20/19 As a five-year-old in 2002, a typical day would include attending to pre-school, coming home to an afternoon snack, and playing outside with the neighborhood kids until it was time for dinner and bed. The only times we had available to watch TV or go on the internet …
Homework 10/7
When reading Jennifer R. Merceia’s scholar essay regarding demagogues and weaponized communication, I understood that Merceia believes that there are two types of demagogues: heroic and dangerous (Merceia, 266). For example, Merceia believes that dangerous demagogues used weaponized language to refuse accountability “for their words and actions” (Merceia, 266). In this sense, Merceia is arguing …
Reading Response 9/30
I think that Roberts-Miller’s ideas analyzing demagogic discourse are well-said and backed by great examples. Much of what she says is valuable information, especially in a world today when we see this sort of negative propaganda often. Roberts-Millers provides a detailed list of all of the topics that are considered demagoguery including ideas of polarization, …
Reading Response 2/23
After reading Boyd’s article, “It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens,” I think the most important claim she is making is that the youth being able to navigate and work well with technology is not the issue. Rather, the issue that Boyd is trying to express is that the youth aren’t being educated enough …
Caitlyn Bettenhausen 