My New Paper Project

           The topic I have chosen for my research paper is on the move towards electronic reading devices such as kindle, Amazon E-reader, or the Barnes and Noble Nook. Discussion topics could be if or not society will make the transition to using them or continue to read on paper books. With all the new advances in electronic readers will this completely revolutionize the way people read, or will society continue to use printed books.

            The main sources I have gathered so far have been articles from The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and various Internet articles by legitimate writers. One thing to focus on would be the environmental effect of both. Are e-readers better because they use fewer trees or does the pollution that goes into making an e-reader out way the benefits. Another topic would be the social implications. In one article the case was made that the new technology will completely change the way people read. People no longer will be without access to a new title and thus will be able to only read what they what, as well as have the ability to shares books more easily as friends can simply download the story as well immediately. Another thing to talk about would be an idea presented in an article about the new method of reading affecting the old way.  The argument was that it would push books to achieve a higher level, and perhaps become more of an art form than just a casual pickup.

            Some problems in the paper could be organizing all the different facets of the argument.  A way to solve this is by ordering them by importance and using overlapping ideas to connect them together better. Perhaps bring everything bak to an umbrella idea. Besides this I see no problem finding sources to back up my ideas, but I do need to figure out a more concise argument along with a stronger point of view for my paper.

Found 5

Making the Case for the iPad E-book-NY Times article
An article about discussing the relative costs of each book. The article goes into apple's promise of e-books being cheaper which goes against many publishers opinions of these promises being exaggerated. The article takes an in depth look at all the costs that go into making each.

How the E-book will change the way we read and write-The Wall Street Journal
This one is about all the social changes the E-book could cause. The article claims it could change the way people share books as well as how they decide what books to read. It claims the e-book could give the reader more choice in what to read.

Making Making books do things e-books can't — and vice versa-Los Angeles Times

An article which discusses the benefits of competing products styles. This includes its argument of printing books as becoming an art, with different style covers and paper types.

2050: Will Paper Based Books Still Exist?-Technorati

An online article about the future of books. About where the e-books are going, are people buying them and will they ever replace printed material.

Ebooks Vs. Paper Books: The Pros and Cons-Hubpages

Another online article simply weighing the differences and benefits of each medium. The article explains what we think of as a book and perhaps why we haven't already switched over.

Discussion Concoction

Topic 1- the move society may or may not be making towards printed books. This topic includes the idea of which is greener, which the people and what people prefer. Also important is where this movement will be in the future. Will we all be reading electronically or not. This interests me because its a question that has always been at the back of my mind but I've never actually researched.

Topic 2- the dying of scripted television. More and more shows instead of writing simply film a bunch of people carefully selected in order to create a few volatile situations. I very much prefer scripted TV and would hate for it to move to the background of television lineups.

Thesis

This ad by BUND in affiliation with Friends of the Earth works to prevent further pollution by juxtaposing the image of a Banana, a food people enjoy, onto the image of a transport ship, which is literally darkening the skies, to make it impossible to ignore the real problem causing this pollution, the massive shipping of food to other places of the world.

Trace Pictures

     "Fat is an Advertising Issue" by Susie Orbach is an article aimed to describe her experiences with working with the Dove advertising department to try to combat the negative affect images in the media are having on woman's self esteem and body-image. Her point is to further increase the campaigns success by presenting it to another audience, the one reading this article, and to gain more notice to her cause in order to further it for the betterment of woman, so that perhaps other companies will take up this endeavor of using real woman in their advertisements instead of the unrealistic models they now use by way of pathos, logos, and ethos.
     The first thing she describes in the article are her credentials and how she got this job, informing the readers that she is a licensed psychotherapist and political activist in regards with women's psychology, with extensive writing, public speaking, and research experience with thousands of women. All these qualifications add to the ethical appeal that she is a trustworthy expert on this subject.
     She also gives logical reasoning supplemented with facts and statistics to back them up in order to convince us of her argument. Sharing such startling findings as 11.9% of adolescent girls puke into the toilet-bowl, these facts not only give the audience logical cause to agree with her, but such a sad image does the fact also convey that it presents another type of appeal as well.
     By describing the sad situations these other ads that only show supermodels presents the audience with an emotional peal as well. From the image of a girl just coming into her own already face deep in a toilet refusing to eat, to the description of the fathers at the company facing their daughters telling them why they think they aren't pretty, this article is predominately using pathos as a way to convince the audience of the damaging affects these ads have been causing all these years.