Rhetorical Analysis Of Is Google Making USupid By Nicholas Carr

Has Technology Come To This? Has technology transformed the world? Are you adapting with it? In Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” he writes about effects that the Internet has on society and the way it has begun to alter us as humans. Carr argues how technology has been negatively affecting the way our brain operates. He goeson to inform us, how we are able to discover almost anything on the internet in a matter of seconds. Allowing people to become dependent on the internet in all aspects of life. Carr states that technology is destroying our lives because it has changed the way humans think and operate.Nicholas Carr uses three main Rhetorical strategies such as appeal to credibility (ethos), appeal to logic (logos), and appeal to emotion (pathos), to persuade his audience of the dramatic effects the internet has on our brain and the different ways its changing our thinking. Carr’sappeal to ethos is shown by the various connections he is trying to make with his audienceand the way their focus may have begun to change in different aspects due to the internet.This is seen when he states “Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the argument, and I’d spend hours strolling through long stretches of prose” (731).He goes on to say, “The more we use the Web the more we have to fight to stay focused on lone pieces of writing .Some of the bloggers I follow also have begun mentioning the phenomenon” (733).Carr speaks of his

They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought.” (733) McLuhan expresses that the internet doesn’t just allow our brains to see something, but it tells us how we should analyze the data controlling what we think. He goes on to