Post#3- Thesis

Paper #2: A Search for Understanding

     

Maggie Jackson’s article, “Does Self-Control come in an App?” appeared in The Internet Newspaper: News Blogs Video Community. In this essay Jackson argues that app sites distract children from schoolwork making them ignore the effort and time needed to nurture self-control. We reach for apps to augment memory and make ourselves irresponsible about how we use the technology in today’s days. She implies on her article interesting appeal to logic, ethos, parody and sarcastic tone.

Jackson’s begins her article with a personal example about how she got a software application that allow users to block access to email and websites which helps with “Self-Control,” she suggests that Facebook is one of the principal websites where children are inundated with info-streams, enticing video playgrounds and constant opportunities to visit the virtual party which makes then to do not finish with their homework or that they can have physical activity outdoors. She supports her article with a study about how we use media, “According to the Kaiser Family Foundation about half of young people use media most or some of the time they’re doing homework.” Education is the principal source that we have for educate ourselves or even our children to become educated about how the media can affect their lives.

by Tania Lopez