First, choose a periodical from the list included with this assignment and carefully
analyze how it covers a genuine contested technological issue. (The article should
have been published within the last three months.) Then investigate the issue as it is
presented in other popular sources, including periodicals, websites, broadcast media,
TED talks, or social media. Discover the parameters of the discussion and investigate
the world-views of the various authors or speakers. Consider how prior values and
practices inform their arguments.
After establishing that there is a conversation on the topic, write a thesis-driven, four-
page (approximately 1200-word) critical analysis of the conversation about the
technological issue you have chosen, in the course of which you make your own
argument.
Be fair. Just because you don’t like a particular position on the topic doesn’t mean
that it doesn’t have rhetorical strengths. Don’t forget that you build your own
credibility when you critically assess an argument rather than uncritically condemn it
or blindly accept it.
In order to develop support for your own argument, you will need
to respond to at least three other voices in the conversation on your topic, in the form
of non-scholarly sources (see attached list)
CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND
Thanks to the expansion of both social media and traditional media channels, the
availability of public opinion is wider now than ever. Yet the range of opinion most
people are exposed to has, if anything, narrowed, as people insulate themselves from
ideas that fail to align with their biases and are encouraged to make snap judgments
about every large and complex issue. Clearly, a situation in which people
communicate mainly with others who already share their views makes it difficult to
engage in thoughtful conversation about pressing problems. In order to clearly
understand and respond to the true positions of authors and speakers, we must
actively interrogate the values and beliefs that shape their rhetoric. We can then
formulate deeper and more thoughtful responses of our own.
EXTRA INFORMATION NEEDED:
BELOW ATTACHED IS THE WEBSITE THAT I AM USING, THERE WILL BE SEVERAL DIFFERENT TOPICS, BUT THE ONE THAT I AM USING IS TITLED ” 1. Improved Sports and Training “
ALSO BE SURE TO USE SOURCES THAT ARGUE DIFFERENT AND MAKE SURE YOU COME UP WITH AARGUMENT.
THANK YOU!
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture-council/articles/technology-changing-the-way-we-interact-with-sports-1234720624/