Rhetorical Analysis Of How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds By Nicholas Carr

Smartphones have harmfully changed how teaangers behave in the standard academic classroom, making them unable to concentrate. The article “How Smartphones Hijack our minds” by Nicholas Carr provides several studies to show that the division of attention decrease when the phone is near to a person.

This can be seen in the title of the article. The title is “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds.” The word “hijack” is a strong word. It doesn’t just mean to simply take something over but to illegally seize (a vehicle) in transit and force it to a different destination or use it for one’s own purposes. By using this word, the author is saying that these objects we use everyday are taking control and determining the way we think and our actions. To a reader, this may seem shocking that these small objects we use everyday are having this much power in our lives. The final way the author strengthens his argument is by emotional

As humans, we detect that we are unable to function without the use of our technology. Does this excessive usability of technology affect how we analyze and operate daily? Nora Volkow, the director of National on Drug Abuse, states “The technology is rewiring our brains” (Ritchel 2). Individuals have demonstrated how this has become a valid statement in society today. In Ritchel’s article “Attached to Technology and Paying the Price” Mr. Campbell, an active technology user on and off the job, suffers from being incapable of detaching himself from his technology. Mr. Campbell falls asleep every night with his cell phone on his chest and initially rises in the morning to flee to the Internet. His lack of disengaging himself with his technology not only affects himself, but his family as well. His wife states that “I would love for him to unplug, to be totally engaged” (Ritchel 3). As shown in the lifestyle of Mr. Campbell and his family, technology has not only dominated his life but his families as

Today, phones play a major role in individuals. In “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds,” Nicholas Carr uses straightforward diction, studies, and figurative language such as, personification to reveal that individuals are powerless without their phones. Throughout the reading he explained how the brain grows dependent on phone technology, the intellect weakens.

While many people say that cell phones are useful, their flaws outweigh their benefits. For example, people may think that using their cell phone while driving a car or train is normal, but what they do not know that it causes deaths, “25 people died and 130 were injured in a train crash near Los Angles. The cause,apparently, was a cell phone” (Saletan). Cell phones cause deaths in trains, just like how it causes deaths in cars. This shows why cell phones are not good as some people may think they are. Nowadays people say that cell phones are a way to communicate, but in reality they are decreasing the interaction between people by using text messages instead of face-to-face conversations. Today, face-to-face conversations are needed instead of text messages, so the interaction between people increases. Cell phones should not be overused and

Murphy’s essay tries to convince the reader that cell phones are limiting and distracting. He compared

The general arguments made by Todd Leopold and Doug Gross is that cell phones are a big part in the lives of people today. More specifically Leopold argues that cellphones are taking people’s imagination and creativity away. Leopold writes in this passage “ If you want to get any creativity thinking done, shut off the damned smart phone and detach, reflect and recharge.” In this passage, Leopold is suggesting that in order for people to think for themselves they have to let go off their phones and detach themselves from any technology.. A point made by author Doug Gross suggest cell phone use in today’s society is an addition. More specifically, Gross shares a study from an anthropology professor at the University of Alabama, that says just

Imagine that you are cruising town on your way to pick up some Taco Bell with one of your best friends. “So what are your plans for this weekend?” You ask. Buzz… Buzz… Buzz… and your friend reaches into his pocket to retrieve his phone to read a tweet and responds, “Oh, Yes, that is so cool!” And they begin to type as fast and furious as his thumbs will enable to respond. Has this ever happened to you? There are two sides to the topic of whether or not cell phones are making us stupid. Authors Andrew Keen and David Weinberger argue the the yes and no sides to answer that debate in the article, “Are smartphones Making Us Stupid?” from upfront magazine. Both authors make a compelling argument for the thier sides of the story, but it really can’t be directly argued either way because it isn’t a black

Birdwell's (2007) article, "Addicted to phones?", describes a problem about some people are addicted to phones. She focuses on the negative effects of phones dependence and encourages people to control themselves to use the phone. She states that anxious is one of the effects of phones dependence.

“Your Phone Could Ruin Your Life” There are many benefits of modern technology. However, digital distraction can be harmful, both mentally and physical. In the article, “Your Phone Could Ruin Your Life” by Kristen Lewis she states there are positive and negative things about electronic devices in the world we live in today. There are some really bad things that could kill you. In the text, it says “3 kids have already died because of cell phone use that was inappropriate” (Lewis 6).

Electronic devices plays a big role in our lives today, they control our communication with other people around us in both good and bad ways. They can be used in good ways when we use them to communicate with people in case of emergency or talking to someone who is living far away. But when these small devices are used to keep us away from our own world and when they distract us from the ones we love or people around us, we can say that they are being used in a wrong way. Both authors Sherry Turkle and Alexandra Samuel make strong claims based on real-world experience.

Albert Einstein once exclaimed, “I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction.” His brilliance shows in today’s era since now, technology predominates ordinary functions and paralyzes the ability for humans to ponder and generate originality. Not one individual is thus required to rigorously search for information or create ideas that are not simply available on the world web. This excessive attachment to the devices that deliver access to such a broad spectrum of information is evidently destroying human potential to excel within the realms of communication and etc. Smartphones, in particular, spark significant concern since they are portable electronic devices with the functionality of numerous gadgets combined. Researchers are concerned about the tendency of people to merely replace experiences in reality with those of the virtual world within their phones. This matter holds relevance within today’s society since a notable percentage of humans own smartphones and the activities which they participate in with the device stretches from photography to games and to mere pastime rituals. Although technology allows innovation and is dire to numerous practices that benefit humanity; excessive dependence can cripple society in ways that include communicative disability and mental disorders that can thrive in effect to such an attachment.

As technology advances, and the newest cell phone hits the market, there are thousands of people lined up outside to purchase it. As we all know, teenagers today cannot force more than a couple of hours without checking their phones, and being updated on what is going on in the virtual world around them. The funny concept is, however that they actually completely ignoring the real world around them. After conducting some research I came across this statistic, “25 percent of cellphone owners in a marriage or partnership have felt their spouse or partner was distracted by their cell phone when they were together.” This quote shows that cell phones impair the

nce upon a time (in 1983, to be precise), we were introduced to mobile phones: a way of making phone calls on a wireless device. This first “brick” may have been hefty and clunky (NBC News, 2005) but it laid the foundations for a dramatic change in technology. Ten years later, 1993 presented us with the concept of texting. Then, in 2002, came the invention of the smart phone. Over the past three decades, phones have revolutionised our lives (Boy Genius Report, 2013). And more recently, they have transformed the way we seek and digest news. As a teenager of the twenty-first century, my mobile has become a vital organ of my body; it’s never out of reach and I need it to survive (or so I’m convinced). And I too am part of the large scale of

In today’s day and age practically everybody possesses a smartphone. We live in a world full of electronics which we are hugely dependent on. Computers, mobile phones and other types of electronics have their roots in our everyday lives and have become one of the most important parts of them. When you glance around yourself, wherever you go most people are staring into a small screen. We are not paying attention to where we are and not noticing where we exist in the world. It is turning us into creatures living inside our isolated devices, detached from one another and from the physical world, in relationship only with our electronics and the image of ourselves.