https://www.ted.com/talks/sherry_turkle_alone_together?language=en
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According to Ted Talk “Ideas Worth Spreading” Sherry Turkle studies how technology is shaping our modern relationships: with others, with ourselves, with it.
Since her path breaking The Second Self: Computers and The Human Spirit in 1984 psychologist and sociologist Sherry Turkle has been studying how technology changes not only what we do but also whom we are. In 1995's Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, Turkle explored how the Internet provided new possibilities for exploring identity. In her book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology and Less From Each Other, Turkle argues that the social media we encounter on a daily basis confront us with moments of temptation. Drawn by the illusion of companionship without the demands of intimacy, we confuse postings and online sharing with authentic communication. In her most recent bestselling book, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Turkle argues that now, with a deeper understanding of our vulnerability to technology, we must reclaim conversation, the most human—and humanizing—thing that we do. The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless; to the disconnections of our modern age, it is the talking cure (1).
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ReplyDeleteJacky Fung
ReplyDeleteWatching this video Sherry Turkle's level of understanding in this topic and how it relates to her life gives her the credibility in what she is saying and gave the audience something they can relate to. This became a great speech when she was able to give multiple examples while giving more information about the subject. This allows the story and the information she was able to given more value in what she is talking about. Her topic is forced and it breaks down her research in to different topics that reveal the problem in society and the truth behind these problems.
Her tone grew louder and her passion show more as she is bring her main point with her story or the information she is saying. As she speaks her town and her vocal variety felt like a lecher in a form of a normal convocation. This captivate the audience by informing us something that we do every day of our life and what will happen in our future if we keep using AI or computers to replace emotions and human interactions. She also uses examples of kids and elderly to make us think about what we would want best from us and from our love once. What better to use something that we feel the most intimacy such as kids and our grandparents? Lastly she kept it clear on her points by listing her points out and gives additional back story to back it up.
Dayna McCall
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle starts of her speech with an anecdote about receiving a text from her daughter. The message she was trying to convey was that technology is taking us places we don’t want to go and changing us. Her audience was people of all ages. Some main points she used was examples of how people are using technology in meetings , dinner tables, class, funerals and more places and how people are trying to be many places at once. Another main point is were relying on technology for companionship instead of humans, for instance she tells a story about a woman talking to the robot for comfort about losing her child. One last point was her talking about teens not having social skills from the overuse of technology and she shares a quote of a teen saying he wants to learn how to have a conversation. Her conclusion was also powerful in wrapping all the points together.
She has a lot of knowledge and credibility about the topic because she studied technology and human communication and also interviewed hundreds of people on the use of technology. Her tone changes from when she talks about receiving the text from her daughter to when she starts talking and about the negative effects of technology and demonstrates good vocal variety. She captivates and excites the audience because the topic is very interesting and relatable. A reason why it was such a good speech was because not only was it informative but sherry is an extemporaneous speaker who was able to communicate her points with ease.
Liam Kabalkin
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle begins her speech by explaining how she felt comforted by a text she received from her daughter. Turkle goes on to explain how we use our phones in funerals, meetings, in the kitchen and most other places. She gives visuals of her own daughter and her friends being “alone together” which shows that this isn’t just a scenario she studies but it’s also something she lives. The fact that she was able to give a visual of her own daughter grabbed the audience’s attention. Turkle calls it the “Goldilocks Affect” which means “not too little, not too much, just right”, this really gave a vivid representation of how we rather text than talk to each other because we can alter what we say over text opposed to real conversation you can’t control it. Now Turkle is knocking technology as a whole but she explains her main point which is that we need real conversation and there should be places where phones aren’t necessary, but that this technology could also help us by being there when someone feels like they are not being listened to. Her tone changes throughout the speech and you can really sense the passion in her topic of interest. Turkle ends the speech by saying that we have all the things we need to fix this. After watching this speech it was a reminder that social interactions are sometimes disappointing but that does not mean that we should turn to technology for comfort.
Jackson Melnitsky
ReplyDeleteIn this speech, Sherry Turkle is speaking from the perspective of someone who is making an observation about the population’s technology use, but uses “we” and “our” to establish herself as a part of that population also. This relatability helps captivate the audience. She quickly establishes credibility as someone who knows about the issue but also someone who experiences the issue. She does this by starting with an anecdote and then also mentioning her book and her feature in Wired Magazine. Her main points are organized by the statement of a theme along with an example from real life that pertains to that theme.
Her thesis/message is that technology’s advancement is changing the way we behave socially in negative ways we may not realize. Her main points are that people use technology to create distance between themselves, that people are becoming unable to operate without this distance, and that the relationship between humans and technology needs to include more reflection or be more self-aware. She concludes in an optimistic tone, explaining the benefits of reflecting on how technology is affecting us. She uses the conclusion to motivate the audience and show them that it’s not too late for these problems to be fixed.
Rashik Raian
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle’s TED talk “Connected but alone” is an extremely well researched and well-organized speech with numerous depts, and connective points where audiences can relate to. Her introduction was very light hearted and relatable, which initial caught the audience’s attention. Sherry Turkle’s use of personal life connection to empower how she started off her intro was an outstanding hook. She opened up with a text with her daughter, which then transitioned into a very well explained and descriptive backstory. Then in a very well-organized fashion Sherry Turkle introduced her thesis. Her initial thesis basically stated even though technology has benefitted our lives over the years; we’re letting it take us to places we don’t want to go. Very clear and well-established thesis. The delivery of her thesis was very passionate, because actually stating her thesis she had it build it up by saying phrases such as “I believe. . .” or “I’m here to make the case. . .” Sherry Turkle goes on to back up her thesis throughout the speech with well researched information, from her numerous interviews and many other credited sources. The facts she had concluded from her interviews were honestly very accelerating, because the replies that people had to Sherry Turkle’s questions were very unexpected. Thus, keeping the audiences very captivated
This TED talk can be relatable for almost all ages groups in the audiences. You get an excellent understanding of that especially when she goes on with her points, explaining the numerous locations or situation people utilize their phones for texting or doing emails. The quick examples she gave were easy to spot and very efficient in supporting her point. At time to time she did make statements for comedic purpose which were very well-timed and kept a light-hearted tone throughout the speech. Going on with her speech she made some incredible remarks as to the impacts that phones in general are having on us. Such as decreasing our social communication skills, using technology as an escape route, or changing the way we relate on ourselves and our capacities for self-reflection. Sherry Turkle has an amazing tone throughout this TED talk. Also, an efficient level of vocal control and an outstanding vocal variety. Her body language and delivery of this speech was what really made it so impactful. From the way she spoke you can interpret that she is very knowledgeable about this topic just as much as she is passionate about it. Her conclusion was well developed. It restated the message she was trying to get across. Including a positive note which was “to make use of digital technology, or the technology of our dreams to make this life the life we can love” ending on a powerful note truly inspiring her audience.
Dylan Magno
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle’s speech “Connected But Alone” tackles the modern day issue of people being too attached to their phones and the online world. She begins her speech with a realtime story of how her daughter sent her a text before her speech and how she loved the text because it “felt like getting a hug”. She then doubles back on herself by saying that by feeling this way makes her a “central paradox” because she is about to inform the audience on how being too attached to texts is a bad thing. This therefore shows that, right off the bat, we get a feeling of relatability to the speaker and shows that she uses technology just like the rest of us do. It reveals that, despite a psychologist and seeing how we connect from a more psychological perspective, how she also sees things as anyone else and as a mother. Throughout her speech, as she segways from main point to main point, she made sure to state her point, and then always backed up that point with support in the form of visuals and.or anecdotes of her experiences in the field. For example, a visual that she uses to support how in today’s society we are becoming used to a system of being “alone together” is the picture of her daughter and her friends “hanging out” while still being lost and alone on their phones. Then, to conclude her speech she goes back through all of her main points and her main idea while pushing for the notion that kids.
Personally, I found this speech to be very interesting because of my interest in technology and my knowledge and experience of people becoming more antisocial the more ways we have to communicate. I found Sherry herself to be, or at least seem to be, a very credible, knowledgeable, and experienced individual who managed to keep the audience enthralled with all of her findings considering its very relatable and modern topic.
Guadalupe Pedraza
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle’s TED Talk was an interesting speech to hear because it is on a topic that we are familiar with the topic of social media and how it effects our lives. Her thesis is that people do not have conversation with other people in person. The way that we are connecting and communicating with each other is though technology. Her three points were how people attention is on their phones, how people feel by using technology people are feeling connected and being listen, and her last point is that people feel that being alone as a good thing. She supports her ideas based on observation that she saw while doing her study on the impact of how technology affect all ages. She also used example of situations that people can relate to. For example, one of her visuals was her daughter hanging out with friends but, all her friend, and including her daughter was her phone. It gave support to the argument that people’s attention is on their phones. It gave support to her argument but, at the same time it captivated the audience’s attention since it an anecdote from her personal life. She started her speech with an anecdote about when she started during TED Talks her daughter was paying attention to her speech and years later her daughter is on her phone when she was doing a TED Talk. Her Idea is to show how technology have change the dynamic in her own personal life. She ended her speech by communicating to people that technology does not need to prevent people to talk to each other. People can change how they used technology in the way they used it by being more self-aware.
Sherry Turkle knows her audience are primary adult who is growing up with how fast technology is growing. She is also aware that some of the adults might be parents also. She used phrase like “Our children” because she is a mother herself. It one of the ways that she is connecting with her audience. I think she organized her speech in a way that there was an easy transaction between points. She restates her points in the middle of the speech to guide her audience about the points she is making and then made a smoother translation into her final point. Her tone was always firm. It was a serious tone but, at the same time it was friendly and welcoming. She tries to add a little bit of humor when she said about “the new skill of having eye contact while texting.” She did used vocal variety when she was talking about anecdote about the woman in the nursing home telling her life story to a robot that was paying attention to what she was saying. He voices gave the audience of excitement when she was telling how people were impressed with the robot and then her tone reflects sadness of how the robot is talking to her instead of an actual person. I think she established knowledge as she gives examples in her book, examples and referring to her study. I think she establish her credibility at the beginning when she talks about that it wasn’t her first time doing a TED Talk, she was on a magazine cover and have wrote two books.
Mathew Gonzalez
ReplyDeleteAlthough informative, I would say it seems more on the persuasive side.
Sherry starts her speech off with an antidote, which is relatable and catches the audiences attention. The information that follows gives way to her main point; that technology is giving us an artificial senses of connection with each other and at the same time deprograming our real life social skills, causing us to be more and more picky with our interactions. She calls this the Goldilocks effect. The tone of her voice varies along side with the importance of what she is talking about. When she begins to get to the “punch line” of her main points she shows more excitement with not only her voice but her hand gestures and body language all together. She will first pick out an everyday relatable scene that everyone in her audience has seen first hand or can easily relate to, then she identifies the problem within that everyday relatable story, then she backs up the problem with her alarming/captivating research, then proposes how we can try to change this. She has a strong conclusion she touches back on all of her main points and combines them and follows it with her proposal by saying; “lets use technology to make this life the life we can love “
Sherry Turkle’s “Connected, but alone?” Begins with a recent text message she received from her daughter and the emotions she felt just from a single text. She goes on to introduce her topic of being too attached to our technology cause problems. Her introduction was very captivating, she included an anecdote- that also acknowledges her credibility-of the beginning of her career to modern time explaining how her book made the cover of a magazine whereas now her recent book will not. Turkle’s visuals provide not only research but also a direct relationship with her topic; she provides a picture of her daughter and her friends on their phones being together, while also “not” being together. Turkle concludes her introduction with her anticipation of technology but also the inevitable that it will continue to “take us places we don’t want to go.” Turkle’s tone is very clear and profound throughout the entirety of her speech. Her main points and supporting examples are also well organized. One main point that I found very captivating was her last point “Time to talk.” She believes that humans should develop a more self-aware relationship, the ability to monitor our emotions and thoughts, with each other and oneself.
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ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle’s speech starts in a way that captivates the audience right away, not only because of her topic which is the cause and effects of Technology, but also because of her tone and body language. The way she uses her arms and her whole body to bring across the message she wants to say s very endearing and makes you want to listen to what she is saying. Her tone is very soft and the way she pronounces the words that she feels are important to understand, really make a place in your mind. It is not just the way she is talking but also the breaks and face changes she makes after each fact or comment. One example would be when she humorously tells about how someone told her that you can make eye-contact while you are texting, she demonstrates it while making directly eye contact with the audience. The thing that stands out to me most is how she connects her thoughts and facts with her body language, so that they feel like they go together. Throughout her speech she keeps the interest of the audience by giving one fact after another and backing these up with more facts. I love how she starts by saying that her daughter texted her and wished her good luck. Furthermore she goes on by telling how 15 years ago her daughter was in the audience in the first row .To me this example felt like the introduction to her topic as well as the main message of her speech : Technology and it’s effect on humans , especially relationships.
Which leads me to what I think her main points and thesis were. She explicitly talks about how she used to “celebrate” technology and what kind of a huge change it brought to the whole world. However she then immediately follows by saying how this is not the case anymore. She breaks down her main points very clearly. Some examples include when she tells about how her daughter and she sleep with their phones, which leads to a fact that she describes as “We are letting us take us to places where we don’t want to be”. She then goes on saying that “these little psychologically powerful devices change who we are”. This makes us as the audience go deeper into our thoughts and actually think about what are we? Who are we? How are we changing? It’s amazing how she almost plays with our minds by her soft yet strong tone and captivating body language. In addition she goes on listing many more examples why technology is having a bad impact on us, such as how we use our phones literally EVERYWHERE : in a funeral, office meetings, in presentations, schools, colleges …etc. Which leads her to her next main point : “We are hiding from each other while we are still connected”, she says we do these things because we have control over what we are posting, texting, commenting. I love how she describes this power of control and how much we like to control it by saying it is “just right”. I was very captivated while she went on and I loved her conclusion. It is almost ironic when se says : “We need to focus on how technology can lead us back to our real life, real bodies, our own communities, our own politics , and our own planet, because they need us…..let’s use digital technology to make this life the life we can love”. It is such a powerful ending. Out of all things she uses that one thing she is warning us about the whole time to be careful with, to use it as our weapon of going back to where we were happy and in control of ourselves : Technology.
Sherry Turkle discusses a very large scale issue in our society today. Her speech, "Connected But Alone", informs the public in a unique way about the populations technology use and how it is changing the way we interact with each other. She grabs the audience's attention by beginning her speech with a text from her daughter. Her introduction was relatable which allowed us to recognize that she wasn't targeting just one group of people. By opening up the spectrum and giving different examples as to being on our cell phones in unexpected places, such as funerals, shows how much technology is taking over. People are so engaged in their telephone’s that it becomes addicting. You may not realize that your texting and social media posting may be done at some inappropriate and unnecessary times. She explains that people are more so into texting and social media that we are losing that physical interaction and communication. As she gets deeper into her speech, her tone of voice changes. It starts out subtle and sweet when she introduces the text from her daughter. But as she moved into her main points her tone grows stronger and more powerful showing her passion and importance of the topics issue. Another main point of her speech was the reliance of human relationship on technology. People are moving to technology almost as an escape to avoid human conflict and feeling that sense of compassion through devices. Turkle’s conclusion was powerful and tied all of her main points together. She summarized that overall, technology is taking over intimate relations and interaction between humans and damage society. I believe that the title “Connected But Alone” was an excellent choice to express that we are all connected through social media but alone when it comes to physical affection and connection. Also, technology is become more powerful by the day and is not only taking away connections but taking away people's jobs. Technology can get multiple things at a much faster rate than people can.
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ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle discusses a very large scale issue in our society today. Her speech, "Connected But Alone", informs the public in a unique way about the populations technology use and how it is changing the way we interact with each other. She grabs the audience's attention by beginning her speech with a text from her daughter. Her introduction was relatable which allowed us to recognize that she wasn't targeting just one group of people. By opening up the spectrum and giving different examples as to being on our cell phones in unexpected places, such as funerals, shows how much technology is taking over. People are so engaged in their telephone’s that it becomes addicting. You may not realize that your texting and social media posting may be done at some inappropriate and unnecessary times. She explains that people are more so into texting and social media that we are losing that physical interaction and communication. As she gets deeper into her speech, her tone of voice changes. It starts out subtle and sweet when she introduces the text from her daughter. But as she moved into her main points her tone grows stronger and more powerful showing her passion and importance of the topics issue. Another main point of her speech was the reliance of human relationship on technology. People are moving to technology almost as an escape to avoid human conflict and feeling that sense of compassion through devices. Turkle’s conclusion was powerful and tied all of her main points together. She summarized that overall, technology is taking over intimate relations and interaction between humans and damage society. I believe that the title “Connected But Alone” was an excellent choice to express that we are all connected through social media but alone when it comes to physical affection and connection. Also, technology is become more powerful by the day and is not only taking away connections but taking away people's jobs. Technology can get multiple things at a much faster rate than people can.
Gabrielle Guarnera
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle’s TED talk speech, “Connected But Alone,” hooks her audience by presenting them with an anecdote from just earlier when she received a text from her daughter. In the text all her daughter said was, “Mom you will rock” and Turkle explained how much she loved this simple text message. She then smoothly transitions to her thesis that technology is taking us places that we don’t want to go, and that our little devices not only change what we do, they change who we are. I found her introduction to be extremely powerful and compelling. She gives her main points using picture visuals of how phones have taken over, like people using their phones at board meetings, parents using them at breakfast or dinner, and children using them while with each other instead of communicating. She makes a point on how we are setting ourselves up for disaster in how we relate to each other and to ourselves. She explains how we have started expecting more from technology and less from each other.
Overall, Sherry Turkle’s, speech was extremely relatable to all of us especially in today’s day and age. She had a lot of concrete evidence including her own research she has done and the words from others she has interacted with. From her introduction to her conclusion, everything was organized in a very conclusive manner. She had a very addicting voice and great body language that was hard to keep my attention away from. Her conclusion was enthralling and truly made me think and want to change some of my habits in using technology.
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ReplyDeleteJess Daly
ReplyDeleteThis TED Talk made by Sherry Turkle captures the audience by beginning with a anecdote from her personal experiences with her daughter. She speaks of the importance of technology, how it can be useful and comforting. She then goes on to almost counter her previous points, and while still acknowledging the significance of technology, she explains how using these devices in our daily lives is something we must speak about, as it is taking us in a direction that may have catastrophic effects. She supports her main points with visuals throughout the whole talk, which are that people are connected but disconnected, showing her daughter and friends together but each one on their phone. I found the part about a woman who lost a child using a robot for comfort extremely interesting, as Sherry states that this robot cannot feel these emotions, it can not feel the pain of grief or understand death, however, it still continued to bring great comfort in this woman.
She delivers her message, that everyone needs to analyze their relationship with technology as it is creating a world where people are never comfortable with being alone or having some sort of solitude, with a soft yet powerful and profound tone. She emphasizes her main points by repeating certain statements to add more power to them, and cement the facts into the mind's of the audience. Overall, such a thought provoking speech. Makes me want to throw my phone away in all honesty.
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ReplyDeleteThomas Facarile
ReplyDeleteInitially, Sherry Turkle begins her introduction with a personal anecdote regarding a text message she received from her daughter prior to delivering her TED talk. She humorously informs the audience of how her daughter wished her good luck and that she enjoyed receiving these messages; yet, she was essentially an embodiment of a “paradox” as her main message of her speech related to how too much involvement with texting and technology can pose unanticipated effects on a person. In addition, Sherry Turkle then transitions into an additional personal anecdote as she discussed delivering her first TED talk in 1996. However, she then tailors this anecdote to the idea that the time period it was delivered in was characterized by the dawn of the internet where online communication such as chat rooms allowed for people to connect with others around the world in new ways. Turkle utilizes distinct body language as she walks across the stage and frequently moves her hands when speaking as well. While discussing her anecdotes, she incorporates a reminiscent tone as she analyzed how people first viewed the internet in its early stages. Furthemore, she also continuously scans the audience with her eyes as she addresses all of the crowd members with strong eye contact.
Additionally, the speaker clearly reveals her main argument that electronic devices are becoming seemingly too impactful on the lives of users. Sherry Turkle also establishes credibility as she mentioned her background as a psychologist and how her profession impacted her view of how the internet affected the lives of its users as they carried over their experiences with the internet into the real world. Aside from this, Turkle additionally builds her credibility as she revealed how she studied mobile communication and interviewed hundreds of people to discover the psychological aspect behind how technology affects our lives. She then further supports her argument through the use of various visuals, one of them being a photograph of Turkle’s daughter and friends sitting next to each other but not interacting as they are all using their phones. The speaker uses various examples of people she knows and how they revealed to her how technology has diminished their ability to interact and communicate with others. Turkle precisely analyzes each of the quotes she displayed on the screen behind her and breaks down how each proves that the growing presence of the internet and mobile phones has lead to people avoiding personal conversations and discussions with friends and colleagues. Moreover, the speaker also engages the audience by asking rhetorical questions such as “Have we so lost confidence that we will be there for each other?” which emphasizes her central claim as well. Her inclusion of her main points on the screen behind her help relay her message to the audience. Due tho these aspects of her speech, Turkle delivers a concise and clear argument regarding how and why we need to change our relationship with technology.
Timothy Wangenstein
ReplyDeleteIn the Ted talk “Connected But Alone” by Sherry Turkle. She talks about a problem that has developed today with technology, people are becoming attached to their technology, and are changing us. She captivates the audience right at the beginning of the speech by talking about how she received a text from her daughter, then talks about other situations where this problem is relevant. By giving some examples that everyone can relate to, she captures the audience’s attention at the beginning of the speech. Sherry Turkle also establishes her credibility about this topic by giving the audience her experience, 15 years of studying the technology of mobile communication and her interviewing hundreds of people about their plugged-in lives.
Sherry has a few main points throughout her speech. She talks about how people are using technology in meetings, funerals and other places. Sherry also talks about how people are trying to use technology for companionship, by talking about her story about bringing a robot into a retirement home, and how an elderly woman told the robot her life story. Sherry speech is extremely organized, and demonstrates good vocal variety, her tone changes throughout the speech to emphasize the importance of each part of the speech.
What stood out to me the most with Sherry Turkle's method of public speaking was her organization, structure, tone of voice, and her outstanding use of diction and her visuals. When she started her speech, I had no idea what she was going to talk about, even after her anecdote about her daughter texting her. But her anecdote was the perfect segue into the introduction of her topic. She also built up credibility right in the beginning, nonchalantly, by stating that she is a psychologist. Ethos appeal at its finest. Examples of her incredible use of diction would be how she uses inclusive pronouns, like "we" and "our" to further invest the audience's attention to the speech. Along with the inclusive pronouns and her eye contact, her vocal variety emphasized certain words to strengthen her speech and her points. Her use of the picture of her daughter with her friends, while they are all on their phones, used at the right time during her speech, really exemplified her point that they are physically together, but not mentally. Another aspect of her speech she took into account was her target audience, a factor many people neglect when speaking. Her target audience was adults, most likely with children. So she wrote her speech in a way that concerns parents, to watch out for their kids, and to try to help them learn to communicate. Ultimately, Turkle has purpose for every word she uses in her speech, every gesture she makes and every visual she uses.
ReplyDeleteBy starting her speech with a cheerful anecdote about her relationship with her daughter, Sherry Turkle instantly allows us to feel connected to her heavily relatable topic. Through her journeys as not only a mother, but a psychologist, Turkle has developed a highly credible source of knowledge and has developed the idea that "technology is taking us to places we don't want to go." With this in mind, Turkle gives us examples, both personal and research oriented, that help us visualize how dependent upon technology we all are. Our generation uses technology for a wide variety of things, but technology has also brought multiple new trends to light. The idea of being "alone together" is a troubling idea that involves being with others, but only with the protection of your eyes on your phone. This practice leads to another phenomenon that Turkle describes as losing the ability to self-reflect. Her passion towards the importance of possessing this skill, along with the detrimental effects of losing it, left no question to any listener that this loss could be severe. Turkle broke up these worrisome ideas with continued anecdotes about her daughters technological habits, and continued this pattern through to her powerful and conclusive final statements regarding our general need to fix things. Through her powerful yet comforting tone, Sherry Turkle is able to inform her audience about the dangers of allowing technology to control your life. Turkle does so effortlessly while never failing to relate to the audience while delivering her message.
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ReplyDeleteSherry starts her speech with a relatable statement, later she compares research and her understanding of technology. Further more she uses good eye contact, the tone in her voice changes, and walks around(body expression). Her main points were on kids uses technology today , and how she relates to it; How time changes with in people who uses technology. Saying that it has become an “addiction” and “distracting. Leading to her overall idea of the topic of how technology has lessen the social interaction of society.
This makes the imformative speech exciting because of how common and relatable the situation is.
DeleteThomas Dillon
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle's speech is centered around a topic that is very popular but also forgotten in our everyday live's. Most of us know that technology controls our lives but are too comfortable with it to try and fix anything. Like she said in the speech her daughter sleeps with her phone in bed as well as herself so she admits she is guilty as well; For this reason I feel that most people can relate to this speech one way or another. One main point Sherry had that I really appreciated and can relate to is how we feel too comfortable hiding behind our phones or other technology rather than socialize with people. three fourths of the people at the dining hall are listening to music through headphones and texting their friends. I'm guilty of doing the same but I do notice how little people interact with each other.Sherry also wraps up the speech in a very powerful way by leaving the audience with advice to think about. She challenges the audience to look at technology a different way and try to use technology to help better themselves in real life rather than substitute for real life. It's a very interesting way to look at technology and I hope to apply some of what she said to my life.