Sherry Turkle, a professor in Science Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), focuses on people's subjective experiences with technology. Both for scholarly and popular audiences. In 2012 Turkle gave a TED Talk, which is nonpartisan, nonprofit, and for anyone who wants to give a short powerful talk to others in order to spread ideas. TED Talks can be about any sort of topic; from science, to business, and even global issues. Her TED talk was titled, “Connected but alone”. She speaks on her concerns with this new era of a “screen type” culture. Not only that but Turkle also wrote a book in 2011 describing her feelings towards people these days and how they rely more on technology than they do on each other. She…show more content… The benefits versus the deficits of being “tethered” or maybe “collaborative”, and how differently people are growing up today versus how people grew up in her time.
I'm not quite sure whether Turkle is giving us more of a Toulmin type argument or Rogerian, but it seems as though it could possibly be both. At first glance, I think Sherry Turkle is giving us a Toulmin type argument because she comes out strong on her belief that technology is making us become more and more alone and we don’t even notice it. It’s a little aggressive but she doesn't come off as if her side is better than another. She is open to what others have to say. For example when she says, “tethered or maybe collaborative”, it could be either term which leads me to think Rogerian. Reducing the “threat” and opening up alternatives. When researching different types of students and their specific relationships with their technology devices, she ponders if it’s fair to call this generation a tethered one. Or maybe it’s just a new norm, perhaps both. In her first…show more content… Instead of sounding like a know it all. It more so sounds like she has experienced it personally and gives the reader a platform where we could either agree with her on or maybe correct her on. In another researched based conversation she had with some boys, they came across if it’s always possible to be in touch and when does one have the right to be alone? Most kids these days get the privilege of receiving a phone from their parents at an astonishing young age. I did not receive mine until I was a freshman in high school, and even at that, I still thought I was too young. The kids today are getting their phones as young as eight years old. But parents never just gave their kids phones without a catch. They make you promise to always call or text back as soon as possible, which truly meant right away, right when they texted us. If not, we were in deep… anyways this means we are never truly alone. Always having someone to call or keep in touch with and not allowing us to rely only on ourselves. Turkle says this doesn't give young kids a chance to separate anymore. This part of her research is beginning to look more like a Toulmin argument. Her argument says that being tethered at such a young age takes away the independence that kids usually gained in these years. Adolescents aren’t developing like they use to. Not
