There
are many elements to Thompson’s work “Public Thinking” that seem ambiguous to
me as a reader. If I were to ask Thompson any 2 questions regarding his text,
one would be: “Do you have any opinions toward the increased use of technology
being a negative thing?” I feel if Thompson were to answer this, he may be a
little more credible in my eyes because he has the ability to see both sides of
the equation. Furthermore, it would be interesting
to know the background of Thompson’s childhood that may have perhaps had an
impact on his opinion.
I
definitely agree with all of the points that Thompson makes, which is why I
think he was very successful in persuading the reader to more easily concur with
him. The addition of entailing personal statistics as to how much an average
person writes now versus what they did in the past. Also helped his argument.
However, I think the anecdote of the Kenyan woman wasn’t as effective as
Thompson would have liked it to be. It felt a little out of place with the rest
of his evidence. Secondly, I think he should have given the reader a piece of
evidence that pertains to him and his personal life experiences. It seemed like
he just gathered this wide array of evidence and mushed it all together to try
and prove his point; there was no real personal flair he put into his piece to
make the reader feel like this wasn’t just a typical research paper with a ton
of random facts.
Although
I don’t agree with Thompson’s initial piece of evidence regarding the Kenyan
blogger, it didn’t just randomly find its way onto his essay. He wanted to give a personal account of
someone who had doors open up to them through their writing. How the idea of
social networking is a powerful idea and if used correctly, can be used to
you’re advantage as it did Ory Okolloh. He connects this story to his essay as
a whole by encouraging people who wish to be publically noticed to seriously consider
the internet being that social media a huge part in today’s society.
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