Evaluate Turkle's speech for organization and clear rhetoric.
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1. Does she appeal to the audience on a multitude of levels? GIVE ONE EXAMPLE OF HOW SHE CAPTIVATES THE AUDIENCE WITH HER DELIVERY?
2. KEEP THESE Four words IN MIND!!! Structural, Emotional, Visual and Logical.
An informative speech serves a purpose.. It teaches us and we learn from it.
DOES TURKLE AS a speaker capture the audience in a way that brings forth emotion and logic? Provide 2 examples. Does she establish credibility? HOW?
An informative speech serves a purpose.. It teaches us and we learn from it.
DOES TURKLE AS a speaker capture the audience in a way that brings forth emotion and logic? Provide 2 examples. Does she establish credibility? HOW?
DId YOU enjoy this speech? Can you connect it to something you learned about, read about or experienced?
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Sherry Turkle speech was extremely moving. She instantaneously captures her audience by making sure all her points are more personal. She structures her points along the lines of parents neglecting their children for or children neglecting their friends for phones. Something more personal and relatable that a statistic and graph. While on graphs her visuals also relate to her topic and while they may not be flashy, they are like that so the audience focuses on Turkle, not the screen. This is also not considering ability to appeal to the audience emotion, she uses example the example of the woman who lost a child and was talking to a social robot. Turkle builds up the interaction to then tell us that while everyone in the room and the woman fell like it helped and understood her plight, it was a façade. It does not understand her, nor does it see her as an individual. It is a soul less machine that we believe is real. Yet it ties into her point that we want people to be there for us, but not have to deal with the unpredictability of conversation and human emotion. Also, she does not just focus on a particular group. She talks about the teen who wants to learn to have a conversation. The 50-year-old worker who does not feel like he has colleagues because he does not want to engage with them anymore. They appeal to all ages and states to all listeners that this is a problem everyone faces and a problem they have all encountered. Also, it helps that, in the beginning she establishes credibility when she talks about her published book and previous TED talk that are related to the points that she is talking about. I did enjoy the speech, and I cannot say I learned anything as I already watched the speech, I was reminded about how disasters the idea of social robots could be if applied poorly.
ReplyDeleteIn the TED Talk, Sherry Turkle spoke about technology and the effects it has on human interactions. She grabbed the audience by bringing visuals to better elaborate her main topic, she even brought facts from her own life into the speech. Turkle said that she goes to bed with her smartphone, but her daughter does that much more often.
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle captivates her audience though her logic and her emotions. For example, at one point of the speech, she speaks about a robot seal who is programmed to listen to a senior’s story of her past. The senior woman felt glad having someone listen to her stories. However, Turkle felt that it brought forward the idea of pretend empathy. We’ve created the illusion of companionship with our technology, cutting ourselves from the world to feel connected to others online. Sherry Turkle also spoke about people today feel alone without their technology. She states that some believe that the Siri companion on the iPhone, will one day evolve into a best friend. With those facts and today’s community, that feels like something that could happen in the near future.
I enjoyed Turkle’s speech about the connection to technology and ourselves. I did not know that being connected to the internet and being involved with social media, can lead to more loneliness and isolation. Although, I can relate to the idea of isolation. Once I finish a call with my friends on discord or snapchat, I do feel the sense of loneliness after everyone disconnects. I guess the TED talk was right about something, conversations can lead to connections which then lead to isolation.
Victoria Kender
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle’s speech was very organized and well put. She talks about technology and relates it to her audience because everyone uses technology to feel connected, but does it really? She connects with the audience by making extremely great points especially her own stories that happened in her life and showed visuals while talking which makes the audience more engaged. I really liked how she said, “it is not how we use it, but how it changes us” and I completely agree with her on that. Turkle definitely captures the audience in a way that brings emotion and logic, for example, she said showed a statement from a boy, saying “someday, someday, certainly not now, I would like to learn to have a conversation…” and that made me realized how we all addicted to our phones and that we do not know how to have a real conversation with someone. That this boy wants to learn how to have a conversation with someone because nowadays there is barely no conversations going on and that is what sad. I learned a lot about Turkle’s speech, it gave me an eye-opener on how obsessed we are with our devices and how we do not live in the moment for most times.
Ryan Lynch
ReplyDeleteThis speech was amazing to me. The way Sherry Turkle spoke and worded her main points across were very powerful. She was passionate about her topic. Sherry spoke the dangers of technology, but in way the I personally have heard before. This topic has been talked about by millions of people ever since it became so prominent in our lives. Her main point is to not get rid of it all together; she wants people to simply rely on it a little less. Text a loved one for an hour is not the same as talking to them for an hour, yet these days some if not most would disagree with that.
Sherry uses a very simple, yet effective technique by write her key points/statements on the big screen. In the video it cut to the screen and this highlights her points. This gets the audience to really listen and understand what she is saying better. She knows that technology isn’t going anyway anytime soon, but she also knows that people can get better at managing their screen time. The best part; in my opinion, was when she showed her daughter and her friends “hanging out” together when in reality they are all just on their phones. This helps the audience realize that for Sherry her and her own daughter are having this same problem.
Nicholas Valentine
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle's speech was very captivating even more so for kids and teens our age. She instantly captivated her audience by making her story personal. She explained how even her daughter would rather sit and be on her phone than interact with her friends. Sherry went into depth about the impacts of simply having a conversation. As life is becoming more and more digital people are less expireneced in interacting one-on-one with another person. I know many people who prefer to text rather than have a phone call. Sherry used visuals with her daughter and her three friends sitting all within 10 feet of each other all on their phones. Sherry also used quotes and sayings when talking about her topics. People would rather be in connection with everyone, which would result in isolation. A person may be texting a lot of people, but they may just be alone when they put their phones down. Turtkle also spoke about how senior citizens who aren’t well versed in technology may need a robot to talk to them. She explained how much happier they were when they were able to have human connection and conversations. She warns us that when we are old we won’t be able to text everyone so we should cherish our time that we have with people we can converse with in person.
I enjoyed Sherry Turkle’s speech because it was relatable. We know we have to put our phones down, but many people don’t. Isolation and looniness are deadly and we have to know how to combat that and never feel alone. It was very informative and eye opening.
Turkles speak was a very captivating one, she caught the audiences attention immediately. She does this by making he topic relatable to everyone in the room one way or another. She talks about the negelection of actual human interactions because everyone is on their phones all the time. I would say she does capture the audience emotionally and logically in her speech. One way she does this is showing recent photo of her daughter “hanging out” with her friends. Also when she talks about the lady that talks to the robot, she feels she needs someone to talk to because a lot of people nowadays don’t give their full attention. Yes she does establish creditability by talking about the 2 books that she had written. I enjoyed the speech more than I thought I was going to honestly. I can connect this speech to my everyday life is almost every aspect that applies.
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ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle’s “Connected, but alone” speech was not only informative but also persuasive. Turkle appealed to the audience in many different ways, one of which was relating to the audience when she talked about what she does with her cell phone, which I am sure many of us do. But also what her daughter does with her phone, and how she “socializes” with her friends. Turkle captures the audience in a way that brings forth emotion, this speech made me reflect on how I have acted in relation to my cell phone, or online in general. Like going on your phone during class, many people are guilty of that. But also her main point that we are together, but alone which is what is happening in online classes. When we are online, we may see our classmates' faces and their voices, but at the end of the day we are sitting alone somewhere in our houses hearing nothing but what is coming out of our headphones or speakers. Turkle established credibility through her personal experiences. How her opinion changed from when she made her last talk, what she has seen in her house, how her daughter interacts, and in nursing homes when she saw people talking to robots. I did enjoy the speech, and I have heard lots about this topic, in fact I have already heard this speech, but it just goes to show how important it is.
Matthew Schnitzer
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SPE 130: Public Speaking
October 21, 2020
1. Sherry Turkle appeals to the audience on a basis of levels. For example, she makes the audience laugh by showing slides of people on their phones; Turkle says they do not give their children attention, while the children themselves do not get their own attention.
2. As a speaker, Turkle captures the audience in a way that brings forth emotion and logic. For example, she says that a conversation takes place in real time and a person does not know what to say. Also, Stephen Colbert once asked Turkle a “profound question”: “Don’t all those little tweets, don’t all those little sips of online communication add up to one big gulp of real conversation?” To which Turkle answered, “No.” Turkle established credibility by saying that having a conversation means having a connection to the person you’re conversing with.
Overall, I enjoyed this speech and can connect it to my EGL 101 class, where I learned that robots are taking our jobs.
Amanda Lakharam
ReplyDeleteIn Sherry Turkle’s TED Talk entitled, “Connect, but alone?”, the speaker is able to effectively deliver her idea as well as appeal to the audience on multiple levels. She captivates the audience by providing us with real life situations that we can all relate to. Turkle incorporates personal experience involving her daughter to help grasp our attention. Her structure is well organized and all her points flow one after the other. Turkle appeals to our emotions by speaking passionately of her ideas that technology is altering our human interaction. Visually, Turkle keeps us occupied by providing photos and key ideas on the screen. Furthermore, she seems to own the stage by walking around the stage and keep eye contact with the entire audience. She is informative and seems to have done adequate research in proposing her ideas in a logical way that is easily understood by listeners. Turkle as a speaker captures the audience in a way that brings fourth emotion and logic. She exemplifies simple ideas such as being at a funeral or in a meeting to portray her logic that we are all so distracted, uninvolved, and unconnected in reality without realizing it. She effectively establishes credibility and manages to get all her points across both thoroughly and effectively. I certainly enjoyed Sherry Turkle’s speech because it was very relatable to everyone. Her ideas were somewhat connected to my ideas in my informative speech. She speaks of how we unknowingly turn to our phones for comfort in situations which relate to my concern of attending to our cell phones out of boredom. Overall, I loved the topic and the way she delivered it. It was both interesting and informative.
Aldair Perez-Reyes
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Sherry Turkle is a very well-spoken speaker and makes her points very clear for the audience. She is also very well organized with how she presents her speech and she knows when to get the audiences attention. She captivated the audience by relating to them and making the speech into a personal story of hers so everyone could relate to her and her story. She also captivates the audience by the use of a visual which backs her ideas. She expanded her knowledge by not just talking about the dangers of technology but also explaining and informing the audience how it affects senior citizens and also how people aren’t interacting as much with each other anymore. She does show credibility to the previous speeches she has talked about and also the book that she was featured in (wired).
I personally enjoyed the speech very much because I feel like it connects with our generation and I feel like it will keep on relating to the future generations even more since they are in a society that is more technologically based and there is going to be even more technological advances in the future.
Zafirah Omar
ReplyDeleteSherry Turkle appeals to the audience successfully as she brings in examples that we can all either relate to or have seen before. For example, she pulled up a picture of her daughter “hanging out” with her friends but they were all of their phones, not really hanging out. Turkle as a speaker, was amazing. She allowed us to think, to realize our actions. We do not usually realize how often we go on our phone throughout the day. On the dinner table, in a meeting, even a funeral. Some of us have done one or the other or have witnessed someone do it before. She establishes credibility by constantly keeping our attention through examples we can relate to.
I really enjoyed the speech because not only was her delivery on point but as mentioned before, the topic is relatable. I agree with everything she has noticed because i have seen people “hanging with friends” but not even spending real time together. Or even my mom when she plays candy crush while we are eating dinner. It is the little things that make you realize, it is a big problem.
I think Sherry Turkle does an excellent job at captivating her audience by talking about multiple different stories and life experiences. She talks about how moments before she starting speaking to the audience that her daughter sent her a text message and discussed how she felt. She then talked about some of her personal experiences and previous studies about the internet and social media. By doing this, she also establishes a sense of credibility which is enforced throughout the rest of her speech.
ReplyDeleteTurkle has a very defined structure to her speech that allows her ideas to flow very well. After she introduced herself and some of her personal stories, she begins to develop some of her main points, how we often feel alone, replace conversations with connections, and believe that no one is listening to us. These points then build up into a climax where she then confronts these problems and begins to discuss ways to combat them. This is one place where I felt a strong sense of emotion, at this climatic peak, because I felt like I was able to connect with many of the ideas she was describing, such as the different ways we are failing to connect with one another. One other place that I think the audience feels emotion is when she is explaining the different ways we can learn to make more conversations with each other. I personally though it was really interesting when she said we should set some time aside for isolation and set other time aside for having conversation, in addition to saying that we truly begin to learn about ourselves not so much when we put our best selves forward but when we begin to fumble and make mistakes with our words.
I enjoyed this speech; I feel like it connects to the many problems our society is facing right now and will be facing for years to come. The additional effects of the pandemic having most of our interactions with other people become virtual places and even bigger roadblock in our path to getting to know each other better. This is why it is important to follow Turkle’s advice and prioritize actual conversations when we are actually able to have them.
Sherry Turkle goes into detail about how technology is taking us places that we don’t want to know. She captivates the audience through her many stories she shares throughout her speech. She shares a story about how an elderly-women was given an electronic otter and that women talks to the otter about her late son. Although many people were fascinated by it, Turkle shares how she didn’t view it in a positive way as that women couldn’t possibly empathize with a robot who has not lived. She explains how this situation made her ask herself “have we lost confidence that we will be there for each other?”, You can tell her points were well structured and she uses various visuals of texts to connect to the audience. Turkle captures the audience by giving them something to think about, such as when she explains we expect more from technology then we do from ourselves. She shows a quote from an 18 year old boy who states “someday, id certainly love to have a conversation”. This quote hits home for the audience as its astonishing that an 18 year old can feel like they’ve never been able to have a conversation. She establishes credibility earlier on in the speech explaining she has interviewed many people on the topic as well as studied it. I enjoyed this speech and as a kid who has grown up in a very digital age with social media taking over many people’s lives I couldn’t agree more with the points she mentioned throughout.
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SPE130
Turkle is an excellent and organized speaker, when she presents her speech you can tell that everything she says is very consecutive. One argument flows into another and she presents proper segues in order to get her points across in a more comprehensible manner. This plays into her defense because as she is presenting, she is able to appeal to the audience on a multitude of levels. One way she captivates the audience with her delivery is speaking about the text her daughter sent her before she came on stage. That text being, “mom, you will rock.” This captivates the audience because this language is not a traditional or expected manner for an orator to speak as, instead teenagers speak in more of this type of manner. With this the audience can already have a glimpse and start making inferences of where Turkle’s speech might go. However, Turkle’s speech does not capture the audience in an emotional standpoint, it was not emotionally impactful. However, her speech did have logical effect because as she was presenting her ideas and thoughts about the over excessive use of our phones she introduced a concept called the Goldilocks Effect. She describes this as being a concept where people can control how much they want of others, even at a distance. While she speaks about this the logic of this effect starts to take place, because the way we as a society limit our interactions with one another perfectly molds into the Goldilock Effect. This is exactly how Turkle also establishes credibility, she uses us as her source of reliable information to study and to document.
Another logical point she makes is when she takes a statement that someone said about learning to have a conversation. She speaks about how having a conversation is difficult because texting allows you to alter social interactions. What's wrong with having a conversation is that it happens in real time and you can not control what you are going to say. With texting, you are able to present the self as the self you want to be. As Turkle describes it, we get to edit, delete, and retouch; the face, the voice, the flesh, and the body. This makes logical sense because as Turkle stated herself, human relationships are rich, messy, and demanding and we clean them up with technology. Once again Turkle uses us as a credible source for this logical reasoning, in this sense examining our performance of verbal interaction and somewhat confidence related to these verbal interactions. This speech was very informative and I enjoyed certain proportions of it, such as the use of texting and technology to alter one’s self to be perceived the way they would want to be. I learned about this through using social media myself, specifically Instagram. When influencers often post pictures of themselves it is apparently very altered through photoshop and Facetune. This came as a shock to me because I never knew so many people can utilize face and body alternating apps.
Isidora Malatos
ReplyDeleteProfessor Brady
SPE130
From watching the speech, I can attest that the speaker has served her topic justice. Sherry manages to capture the audiences' attention while dissecting on the influence of technology on human connections: through successfully working to create an emotional tone, communicate with confidence, and make some humor statements in line with her topic, uses questions in between her delivery, related most of the talk to real life experiences and used facts and studied results while delivering the speech. For example, she uses questions to trigger the audience to think; Turkle asks if humans have lost confidence that they can be there for each other. She also speaks about her background and experience in research that helps boosts her image and ability to communicate on the topic to the audience's minds.
Additionally, I think it is acceptable to say that Turkle has a full grasp of her topic. From the chronological order of the main points in her talk, the speaker smartly engages the audience to flow in her thought line. Without having to coerce them, the speaker speaks to the people's vulnerabilities where she identifies why people run to the aid of technology: the fear that no one is listening, no one understands, and the search for companionship. She then makes them understand why people dependent on tech models miss a lot compared to fellow humans. For example, she says how a woman depends on a robot for company after losing her son. Though the machine helps her mourn, the speaker triggers our thought when she asks how we depend on one who doesn't understand our journey, pain, and a real experience to comfort us.
Finally, the speaker has addressed one of the challenges facing humanity in the face of robust technological advancements. The cases of suicides are increasing, and the numbers of divorce cases are on the rise. Our ignorance as humans is, therefore, haunting us. We have let technology create a rift in our path of problem solving, solitude, and real time conversations. We invest too much in online connections that only give us temporal satisfaction. Nowadays, the majority of parents have a weak bond with their children. Phones and computers have threatened the family union and neither parents nor siblings understand one another. This weak bond has led to children crying out their social media platforms' problems, hoping to find a listening ear. Therefore let's focus on creating more bonds with humans and use technology for entertainment and self reflection.
Sherry Turkle is an amazing speaker, she was able to captivate her audience attention right way. She started her speech off taking about her daughter and how she loved her text message but then she debuted with how texting is ruining our lives. Then Turkle shows a picture of her her daughter and her two “handing out”, which captivate the audience in the fact that is making her speech more personal. In addition she appeal to the audience emotion, when she talks about going to a nursing home and brought in a robot. And when Turkle brought in the robot in the shape of a seal there was a woman that lost a kid that felt comfort in taking to the robot. This help her explain that people are becoming more comfortable to be fell more of a connection with technology than actual people. I really enjoyed Turkle’s speech I felt that it was very related. There are many that I was able to connect to life. First it is the fact that we are doing remote learning, audit hard to make friends because people need face to face communication to be able to understand one another. Also the fact we are all connect3ed ,but actual still alone, because sometimes I would be hanging out with my friends and they would all be on their phone. So they were there physical but somewhere else on their phones.
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