1) Mario Savio argues in his speech that the students a Berkeley University has little power to practice their rights to free speech and the bureaucrats are not doing anything to protect student's rights. In his speech, he has used the historical point of view to get across his point to the readers. His form is very useful for readers to follow since his arguments are cohesively flowing from paragraphs to paragraphs. Also expressed transitions are well used. Becoming symbol-wise are greatly interpreted when he says “powerful minority and “powerless majority”.
2)I think social networking is a serious issue that has to do with public discourse. Some viable genres for this issue can be a post on Facebook. I think any post whether it is a video clip, an image or a comment or criticize on something can be interesting to study how people are using these sites to communicate their ideas with others and unknowingly use methods of communication which is called, “metadiscourse”. I am also enthusiastic about comments people make because they use Kenneth Burke’s ideas of stepping back and examining other’s perspective. People who spent most of their time on computer and socializing with others are even unaware of the public discourse concepts. Facebook can be harmful to someone’s cyber reputation but at the same time, it can be a learning source.
Social networking is a very interesting topic. It happens so frequently that people do not even realize that they are doing it. Do you plan on discussing the harmful effects that this concept can have on people, or are you going to talk about the benefits, or both? Any of the above could be turned into something very creative. Do you have a particular audience you want to speak too?
ReplyDeleteSocial networking is a phenomenon that we as humans have really yet to grasp in terms of its concept - maybe we're doing it wrong! Is Facebook supposed to be a parallel to society that mirrors who we are, or is Facebook and other social media supposed to be a side feature in our lives? Social networks haven't been around for more than 10 years, so I would like to see you make interesting claims on its purpose that maybe a few people haven't considered yet!
ReplyDeleteSocial networking is a hot topic recently. Facebook, blog, twister, messenger are very well-known in the society. And the consequence of addicting in using social networking. As there are some benefits and disadvantages, it is good for people to judge whether it is good or not, in this case, maybe we can use Kaufer's conflict levels?
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