Purpose
The purpose of the cartoon is to persuade parents from allowing their children to have great assess to technology. It also in a funny way criticizes parents who allow their young children to rely on technology in everyday life. A common idea for why technology is a negative aspect in current young children lives is that technology effects children social interaction skills that allow adults to communication and interact successfully in society. These skills are not learned or taught incorrectly because of the interference of technology. The cartoon is also using irony by the parent using technology to ask a question you would not think a parent who ask and the answer the technology gives is that technology itself is the issue.
Audience
The target audience would be parents with developing children, it could also apply to grandparents of young children or even care takers due to the fact the cartoon is criticizing parenting skills of young children’s parent. This is evident because the cartoon specifically told from the perspective of a parent using a cellphone.
Genre/Stances
The genre is a cartoon, this is shown because it is a hand drawn picture containing writing. While the stance of the cartoon is parents who supply their young children with technology are doing their child disservice this is present through the diction the cartoon uses.
Rhetorical situation
The rhetorical situation surrounding this cartoon is the rising usage of technology with indolence’s. The two positions that are presented with this current rise of technological usage is that technology is harmful to child development verses technology is helpful to child. This cartoon takes the position of the harmful effects of technology and has a negative outlook on technology through the diction the cartoon uses.
Purpose
The purpose of the meme is to show the youth the prospected future of students but in a comedic and relatable way. The meme is in the comfort zone of youth and does not imply anything to coarse to comprehend. Most articles and rhetorical situations that have to do with technology effects on children are aimed toward the teachers of these children, parents and care takers and anyone else surrounding the child but not the children themselves. This cartoon also showing students the negative point of view of the effects of technology on children which is not what expected partially because it is a meme which is displayed through technology beginning the medium. Secondly because it’s a meme it would be expected to be made by some sort of youth, therefore it would not be expected for a child to disagree with the usage of technology in schools.
Audience
The audience of the meme is the youth, people who read memes, find them funny or are in tune with social media. There is a common and popular meme of SpongeBob right now on social media where a statement is said usually by some sort of authority and the individual underneath the authority responds to the authority by mocking the authority. This is depicted by every other letter being capitalized and the image of SpongeBob as shown is used to create this image. This is common knowledge to the youth, which shows that the audience would be the youth in tune with social media.
Genre/ Stance
The genre is a meme this is depicted by using a common or popular meme that is well known with in social media users. The stance of the meme is that technology is taking a negative effect in students lives. A common position people who believe technology is affecting students negatively state is that it hinders children interactions with other students. Children who do not learn with textbooks or pen and paper are missing out of many crucial learning techniques that allow them to think critically or learn with out distractions. This meme takes this position of technology doing students some sort of disadvantage.
Rhetorical situation
The rhetorical situation surrounding this meme is the medium and the audience mainly. The medium largely because it is critiquing technology through technology.
