Do your best to analyze this piece from Campus Progress. What is the issue/exigence that prompted this to be written? Is it a profile, report or proposal? What times of information does the writer use to back up his or her point?
Is this a good example of rhetoric? Why or why not....
50 Cent and Twitter
This article was written because 50 cent posted a picture on his twitter that was arguably sexually graphic. This article is most definitely a proposal, because now people are starting to talk about making twitter a site for only those 18 and above. Some people argue that it is best to keep children off this site so as not to corrupt their minds...as if they haven't been corrupted already. Kids today are more aware of the "bad" in the world than most adults are. It is because of the media (i.e. twitter, facebook, magazines, tv) that kids get this information.This is what the writer is trying to say. While the writer knows that kids are always going to get the information they are looking for, making twitter for adult use only, while i may be hard, is something to consider. This is a good example of bad rhetoric. 50 cent most definitely gets his points across to an audience, but he does not do so in an appropriate manner. Cursing and posting sexually graphic pictures is not the way to reach out to his younger following.
ReplyDeleteThe issue is that 50 cent posted inappropriate pictures on twitter and got upset that twitpic took off his pictures. He suggested that only adults should be allowed to be on twitter. This is the beginning of the proposal that the writer then makes, that only adult should be allowed to go onto twitter, so that everything will not have to censor what they do for possible children followers. The writer does however, justify that twitpic had every right to remove 50 cents post, with an excerpt from a contract that twitter users must follow. While this does justify twitpics behavior, it also suggests the idea that, if anyone wants the freedom to post anything on twitter, a rule must be made to prohibit any non adults from using twitter. So yes, it does back up the proposal, making it almost necessary to have an over 18 demographic. The rhetoric is not very good, both by 50 cent and the writer of the article. 50 cent used inappropriate and immature wordings and the writer did not really go into too much depth, just kind of ends the article abruptly after mentioning the proposal.
ReplyDeleteThe issue that is prompted in this piece from Campus Progress is about 50 Cent’s (Curtis Jackson) use of Twitpic in an inappropriate way. Twitter is now considering having an 18 and older Twit use. 50 Cent states, “ If you are under 18 get yo little ass off the computer.” This is something that many people are arguing that there should be a way that you are able to tell if someone is 18 and older and they should have a special account. This piece from Campus Progress is a report. I know this because the writer states an issue and ways to solve it. The writer also uses quotes and specific details. The writer uses an actual story as back up for his point. He states specific tweets from 50 Cent and uses those as a point of why some Internet sites should block pages from people under that age of 18. This is a good example of rhetoric; the writer is able to express his opinions by specific situations and background knowledge. 50 cent is also able to express his own rhetoric through twitter in an inappropriate way.
ReplyDelete"50 Cent Says His Twitter Account is for Adults Only but Is That Possible?" was written because Curtis Jackson posted a sexually graphic picture on his Twitpic account. This article propose to restrict all users under the age of 18 from adults- only Twitter accounts. The writer incorporates many types of information to back up his point. He gathered statistics like the 18 percent of minors using Twitter and the three million followers that follows 50 Cent. He use quotes from the rapper himself to make his point more effective. The writer also showed the terms of use agreement of Twitpic. All of these makes his point more effective as the readers take into account the writer's side of the story. This article is a good example of rhetoric. The writer has an issue which he is writing to share his points about. He conducts research to back up his beliefs and he leaves most of his personal bias out of the article. The article also allows people with different opinions to make an argument.
ReplyDeleteThe issue that prompted this article was that 50 cent posted a series of inappropriate images on his Twitter account through Twitpic. The author of the article suggests that Twitter should adopt an 18 and over policy. This is a proposal that the author is making, that only adults should be allowed on the site so that way the producers wouldn’t have to sensor all of the material for children. The author does justify Twitpic’s removal of the images with an excerpt from their terms of use agreement. So the author’s proposal is that in order to have the freedom to post anything on Twitter, it is necessary to have an 18 and over age restricting. This is an example of bad rhetoric. 50 Cent definitely is able to get his point across, but excessive cursing and graphic pictures are inappropriate ways to reach out to young followers.
ReplyDeleteThe piece from Campus Progress talks about how 50 Cent wrote a very inappropriate blog on his twitter account. The exigence that prompted this article to be written is that it is a very controversial issue because 50 Cent has over 3 million viewers in his blog and some of these are children under 18. 50 Cent is actually the one who proposes that children under should “get yo little ass off the computer”. This article is a proposal because it introduced the idea of blocking certain blogs based on age. But then the author describes how it would be difficult to put a restriction on who can view the twitter blogs. The author gives possible options that twitter could use to restrict viewers but they all don’t seem like they would actually function. This is a good example of rhetoric because the author states the proposal and then uses information and hypothesis to support his or her view on the proposed idea. I at first thought that the blogs should be blocked but after hearing the author’s argument I was persuaded to her side of view.
ReplyDeleteThe exigence for this article was that 50 Cent posted inappropriate pictures to his Twitter account. The writer proposes that Twitter should have an 18 and older policy for its users. This way, Twitter wouldn't have to worry about filtering any of its content. The writer proceeds to quote the contract of TwitPic that states they have the right to take off any inappropriate content and suspend the users' access to their account. The writer also quotes 50 Cent's tweets to support his argument. This is not a good example of rhetoric from neither 50 Cent nor the writer. 50 Cent used meaningless words to convey a point, and unnecessary profanity. The writer makes the proposal and the article seems to stop abruptly after that. The writer doesn't go into much detail about the proposal.
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