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    Here are three paragraphs analyzing different aspects of the documentary film "The Social Dilemma": [Paragraph 1] The film provides compelling evidence for how social media platforms exploit human psychology for profit. Through interviews with former tech insiders, it reveals how platforms are deliberately designed using behavioral psychology to be addictive. Experts explain how mechanisms like the infinite scroll and push notifications tap into human dopamine systems to keep users engaged. Data is collected on every user interaction and sold to the highest bidder. This evidence from people who helped build the systems lends credibility to the serious claims about social media's negative impacts. [Paragraph 2] While the warnings about social media risks are convincing, the film could have avoided some logical fall

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    Here are three paragraphs analyzing different aspects of the documentary film "The Social Dilemma": [Paragraph 1] The film provides compelling evidence for how social media platforms exploit human psychology for profit. Through interviews with former tech insiders, it reveals how platforms are deliberately designed using behavioral psychology to be addictive. Experts explain how mechanisms like the infinite scroll and push notifications tap into human dopamine systems to keep users engaged. Data is collected on every user interaction and sold to the highest bidder. This evidence from people who helped build the systems lends credibility to the serious claims about social media's negative impacts. [Paragraph 2] While the warnings about social media risks are convincing, the film could have avoided some logical fall

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    Here are three paragraphs analyzing different aspects of the documentary film "The Social Dilemma": [Paragraph 1] The film provides compelling evidence for how social media platforms exploit human psychology for profit. Through interviews with former tech insiders, it reveals how platforms are deliberately designed using behavioral psychology to be addictive. Experts explain how mechanisms like the infinite scroll and push notifications tap into human dopamine systems to keep users engaged. Data is collected on every user interaction and sold to the highest bidder. This evidence from people who helped build the systems lends credibility to the serious claims about social media's negative impacts. [Paragraph 2] While the warnings about social media risks are convincing, the film could have avoided some logical fall

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    Writing and

    Communication
    Session 21: Responding to Audio and Visual Texts
    The Rhetorical Situation
    • Sender: Who created the visual? Why did the person create it?
    • Message: What is the subject of the visual image? What is the purpose?
    • Medium: What medium/mediums are being used to convey the message?
    • Context: When and where did the video/image first appear? When and
    where does it appear now? How does the it relate to its context?
    Understand the purpose
    “What is this image or video meant to do?” and then decide on an appropriate response:
    • Arouse curiosity? Open your imagination, but stay on guard.
    • Entertain? Look for the pleasure or the joke, but be wary of excess or of ethically questionable material?
    • Inform or educate? Search for key instruction, noting what’s left out.
    • Illustrate? Relate the image to the words or concept being illustrated: Does the image clarify or distort the
    meaning?
    • Persuade? Examine how the visuals or audios appeal to the viewer’s needs, from safety and satisfaction to
    self-worth. Are the appeals manipulative, clichéd, or fallacious? Do they play on emotions to bypass reason?
    • Summarize? Look for the essential message in the image: Does that main idea correspond with the written
    text?
    • How do visuals and audios contribute to the logical, emotional and
    imaginative appeals of the argument?
    • What is particularly memorable, disturbing, or problematic about such an
    execution of the argument? (also think of other emotions)
    • What aspects do the audio/video lay emphasis on which would otherwise
    not be there were this only a written text?
    • To what extent do the visuals dominate the overall argument or theme that
    is meant to be communicated?
    “The Danger of A Single Story”
    By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg
    “The Danger of A Single Story”
    By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    1. What is the main thesis statement of “The Danger Of A Single Story”?


    2. Summarize the main point.
    3. How does she appeals to the emotions of the audience?
    4. What does Chimamanda mean by, “when we realize there was never a single
    story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise”?
    Assignment 3
    • Reflect on the documentary film, ‘The Social Dilemma’. Write three
    separate paragraph of critical analysis of the piece. You are supposed to
    write three different paragraphs that follow the structure we have
    discussed in class for paragraphs in academic essays: (a Topic Sentence,
    support statements, details (incorporating quotations from the original
    text) and a conclusion).
    • Each paragraph should critique/analyse one aspect of the film, for
    instance, evidence, how convincing the claims are, language, tone,
    fallacies etc.

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