Analysis Of Sherry Turkle s The Flight From Conversation Essay

Turkle lacks any success in her rhetorical appeal to ethos and does nothing to gain the trust of her audience without citing her quotes or properly identify herself as an expert in the field of social media and human interaction. The audience without her identify herself as an expert doesn’t know whether or not to trust what she is saying or if it is just a paper full of emotion with no proof. Not properly identifying how she is related to the subject matter anywhere in the paper makes the audience feel misguided by any information given which leads to mistrust her as a reliable source of information. This mistrust leads the audience to turn away from Turkle and not to believe her throughout the remainder of the article. She attempts to show that she has done some research by saying â€Å"during the years I have spent researching people and their relationships with technology†¦ listening to me† (Turkle). Turkle wants the audience to trust her that she has done her research, and therefor is an expert in this subject matter and throughout the article is t... ... middle of paper ... ...ticle in The New York Times â€Å"The Flight From Conversation†, she unsuccessfully argues that society needs to drop the habit of using social media as an out for face to face conversation, through her emotionally charged pathos that disrupts her from making valuable arguments that turn into a rant filled paper and the lack of properly assuring the audience that she is an expert in the field of human interactions. Though I do believe that more and more people have relied on technology for interaction with their peers, I don’t believe it has become an epidemic as describe in Turkle’s paper. Social media allows us to be able to connect with each other all around the country and is an effective means of quick communication. People still bond with each other and build meaningful relationships that are not just reliant on a piece of technology like describe so in the article.