Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Sea of Persuasion
How we are immersed in the sea of persuasion is through media and the people around us. Many of the speeches we listen to are persuasive and a majority of us have received this in high school from guest speakers. They persuade us to get more involved with the topic they’re presenting. Since guest speakers are doing public speeches, most I’ve encountered were the persuasion of enrolling in programs such as Heald or FIDM. Another persuasive speech many young teens have heard is saying no to drugs. Mass media context is the one persuasion no one can avoid. You’re surrounded by it on a daily basis through viewing television, magazines, internet, and more. It can persuade you to buy things to losing weight to a social status. What you can do to become a more critical consumer of persuasive messages is figuring out what’s most important to you and what you need in life.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you that mass media context is unavoidable. Every where we turn or every where we look or go there is always something on a billboard or some thing on television trying to persuade the watcher in to their product or services. I also remember in high school where we had a lot of guest speakers talking to us about staying away from drugs and alcohol. But now it is not only staying in schools they are now putting these ads in television commercials and magazine ads. We now can’t get away from it but that’s what companies do is to try and persuade the consumer into their product.