Possible Thesis: We must live up to the expectations to be better, to be futuristic. Out of fear of regression there must be blind progress.
Topic One: Using attention spans of teens to make profit.
The majority of people who are entranced by tiny screens are teenagers. We, (well most of us) continuously buy different models of basically the same product just because we can. Teens keep feeding in to the idea that we need to be kept up in the know. The advertising schemes are catchy enough to keep us interested and shielded from the fact that everything is the same. Corporate is afraid of what would happen "God Fah-bid" there was a pause in production.
Topic Two: Digital Overdose
We have been programed to need our fix of digital drugs...or else. Interviewing people in the street shows how we as a nation have become overly dependant on the digital things that we buy. Its like we in a way have also become like our products: temporary and rechargeable.
Topic Three: Anderson
Feed, the book we all know and love... Talks about how we teens are so dependant on our toys that we don't realise the things that are around us. (More ideas to come)
Topic Four: A lesson in Romantics
We have lost touch with the things that are around us. We have forgotten that there used to be things around us that made us happy that did not have screens and flashing lights. Which feeds into our rapid stupidity and our desire for small plastic things.
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i like your alot very focused but i hope mine could be as organzied. what i'm wondering is what did you mean by better?and is it teenagers and do we have really bad attention spans? i think we can focus there but i like it i feel the invisble puppet master here. i love how you said digtal things are like drugs great comparsion they are used the same way and marketed the same way. maybe you can say how we are loosing our selves like in feed and being put in to a little bubble.useing only these plastic objects to talk and interact inside the bubbles. i like this and i want to read your paper now. good luck
ReplyDeleteJacara!
ReplyDeleteYour arguments are super clear and i think you have a very spot on sense of direction, sounds like you know exactly what you wanna include in you paper. However i am in the same boat as Ian and am confused by your thesis. Who is making theses expectations and what do they mean by better? Do you feel out dependence on digitalization is becoming better? From the sound of your arguments which is what i think you should base your paper on, things seem to be getting worse. My suggestion is that you switch up your thesis a little to make it flow with your arguments. Your four arguments seem to sum up the major areas of discussion talked about in class. Your evidence seems to be coming from many different sources.
Looking forward to reading the rest of your paper!