Completely compose 4-5 paragraphs. You must compose your counterargument and rebuttal paragraph. Select your quotes from articles, ted talks, films (The Social Dilemma) and 1984 for your research. All students must use The Social Dilemma with another work covered in this class. Use 2 works. For each work, quote 2-3 times (each body paragraph will have 2-3 chunks). Highlight your counter argument.
**You must quote 2 times for your counter. You must have a minimum of 4-5 or more quotes. When citing, only one CD can be a paraphrase.
Technology/1984 Essay
Choose one of the prompts below and type an argument essay using MLA format. Completely compose 4-5 paragraphs. You must compose your counterargument and rebuttal paragraph. Select your quotes from articles, ted talks, films (The Social Dilemma) and 1984 for your research. All students must use The Social Dilemma with another work covered in this class. Use 2 works. For each work, quote 2-3 times (each body paragraph will have 2-3 chunks). Highlight your counter argument.
**You must quote 2 times for your counter. You must have a minimum of 4-5 or more quotes. When citing, only one CD can be a paraphrase.
#1. Tristan Harris poses the question, ?Is this (addiction to social media or technology) normal, or have we fallen under a spell??
#2. The documentary The Social Dilemma asks is technology an existential threat? Take a position. Consider the following:
Is there another tipping point that people have not foreseen until now, when technology and the greed of large organizations destroy human society as we know it.We can call it the ?Point of Social Collapse? when society spins out of control and breaks down. What do you think about this observation ? are we moving toward a ?Point of Social Collapse?? Defend your answer.
#3. Will technology overwhelm human strengths and exploit human weakness? Consider this statement from The Social Dilemma:
We were all looking for the moment when technology would overwhelm human strengths and intelligence. When is it going to cross the singularity, replace our jobs, be smarter than humans? But there?s this much earlier moment? when technology exceeds and overwhelms human weaknesses. This point being crossed is at the root of addiction, polarization, radicalization, outrage-ification, vanity-ification, the entire thing. This is overpowering human nature, and this is a checkmate on humanity. (The Social Dilemma)
#4. How has social media created a 1984? Are we ?…on a fast track to a dystopia?? (The Social Dilemma). How is technology a mix of utopia and dystopia?
#5. Many people think that our modern world has become much like the world of Oceania in 1984.
Do you think that there are some significant similarities between the two or not? Explain, using
examples from both the novel and modern society.
#6. Does technology isolate us from society? (Consider Tedtalk, Connected but Alone)
#7. Do the benefits of social media and or technology outweigh the liabilities?
#8. Write an essay marshalling facts to support or challenge any claim, fact or position taken in the film The Social Dilemma. You must write about 1984 too.
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