Brave New World Of Digital Intimacy Rhetorical Analysis
Jay Smith
Revised draft
Sept. 11th, 2013
In the article, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”, Clive Thompson explains to thethat users of Twitter and FacebookFacebook , that Social sites are giving such a detailed glimpses into other people’stheir lives that “ambient awareness”, has become part of almost every person on planet earthonline interaction. According to Thompson, aAmbient awareness is the feeling of being with someone, or in someone’s life, without physically being there; and every facebook and twitter user is feeling it, (whether they realize it or not). Thompson then goes on, to talk about a Boston Globe columnistthe experiences of Ben Haley?, who, when first introduced to twitter. At first Haley, stated “Who really cares
Revised draft
Sept. 11th, 2013
In the article, “Brave New World of Digital Intimacy”, Clive Thompson explains to thethat users of Twitter and FacebookFacebook , that Social sites are giving such a detailed glimpses into other people’stheir lives that “ambient awareness”, has become part of almost every person on planet earthonline interaction. According to Thompson, aAmbient awareness is the feeling of being with someone, or in someone’s life, without physically being there; and every facebook and twitter user is feeling it, (whether they realize it or not). Thompson then goes on, to talk about a Boston Globe columnistthe experiences of Ben Haley?, who, when first introduced to twitter. At first Haley, stated “Who really cares