Reading Disorders: Online Suicide and the Death of Hope by Debra Ferreday examines suicide in media. She starts her literary work by giving insight to the Abraham Biggs and “Bridgend suicide cult” cases. She then discusses the fears surrounding online suicide that could lead to “the death of hope” in media. Next, she criticizes Abigail Bray’s article that describes “reading disorders” and how online relationships connect with social media. Ferreday argues in her article that “reading disorders” inhibits our ways of hopeful thinking through media, which dismisses the potential of digital media on building connections. Most of Ferreday’s article is dense, which make it hard for readers to comprehend the main ideas of this literary work. Reading through this article was difficult due to the organization and diction of the article. …show more content…
Starting the article with two accounts of suicide in the media was a captivating way to engage the audience because it grabs readers’ attention and brings real-world experience to her article. However, examining each case on respects to her argument makes readers become lost in translation and lose focus. This creates a distraction for readers to continue reading to the end of the article. On page 416 of the article, the first mention of “reading disorders” appears. The true definition of a “reading disorder” was not defined properly. This make it harder for readers to understand Ferreday due to the lack of understanding of what a “reading disorder” is in context of her argument. She supports her statements by using different sources as supporting evidence. The random transition between the different sources to support her argument aids in creating confusion for readers as well as lack of drive to read this literary work to completion. The structure of the article determines the easiness of comprehension of the main
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The visual design is of different outlets where one can get news. It contains newspapers, a phone open to news, and a tablet open to news. The purpose of the image is to inform the reader how one has access to news in several ways, which can determine one’s stance on an issue if its shown in a positive or negative light. The image is effective, because it reminds the reader that news isn’t just limited to a newspaper. News can be accessed in several ways, so it’s important to note what he or she is reading.
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I Swear Essay Suicide is defined as the intentional taking of one 's own life. Imagine living in a world of suffering where it seems like there is no way out as the taunting becomes gradually worse. The bad names being called start to become a reality, because being called them constantly makes them seem true. One starts downgrading themselves and grows more insecure each day. The online messages break one down and being told to “kill yourself,” starts to not seem like such a bad idea.
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Using Satire to Convict Social Media Social media has inspired a stronger set of issues in the lives of the current youth, according to Shannon Purtle in “Why Social Media Should Be Left Alone”, specifically issues dealing with authenticity. In a time when social media is on the rise, Purtle addresses the lacking of real connections and endangerments surrounding magnified typical teenage issues caused by those programs within the lives of young Americans. As a teenager, or young adult, there is an immense amount of exposure to assimilation from one self-conscious teen to the next unsure teen. Through using satirical strategies such as an ironic tone, ridiculous and contradicting rhetoric, ironic questions and analogies to common phrases, Purtle
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The layout shows the reader the development of literacy theories from Early Theories and Models Applicable to Reading through the 21st century. It was interesting to see some of the theories overlapping each other and some of the theories were developed upon by other scholars. For example, the Schema Theory was developed further by Louise Rosenblatt’s Transactional Theory. Background of Authors
“This was another of our fears, that life wouldn’t turn out like literature”. Suicide is a very serious issue that is address in this novel. Not only did one of Tony’s close friends commit suicide but two. Noticing a pattern, I also realize
In the next paragraphs of my paper, I plan on discussing how death drive has become successful on 4chan, a website deemed by the public to be the scum of the internet. I will analyze the concept of anonymity on this social platform and its connections to the Oregon shooter, emphasizing the streaks of violence seen on the site. I will be incorporating theories of taboo in death to show how the social media structure promotes the pleasure of death and how that pleasure resorts in malevolent action. This will be done to emphasize that death drive on social media causes society and potential shooters to act without reason. In addition, I will talk about the reactions that users experience from death drive, as seen on reaction videos on YouTube,
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