When in doubt, reach out!

So far in class, we’ve looked at the ideas of Adam Alter (“Why Our Screens Make Us Less Happy”), of Tristan Harris (“How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds”), and the ideas of Jaron Lanier (excerpts from Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Today and the talk “How We Need to Remake the Internet”). We’ve also viewed the docudrama, The Social Dilemma, directed and cowritten by Jeff Orlowski.
Link Atler
https://medium.com/thrive-global/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.ukiczwwqd
Link – Harris

Thesis attached please follow /No outside sources
In other words, I’ll ask you to synthesize, in a strategic and organized way, the ideas of the thinkers we’ve read so far. Your framework for doing this will be a comparison of at least two of the four thinkers. Specifically, your thesis statement will answer the question: How do Harris, Alter, Lanier and Orlowski view the challenges of our tech-infused world similarly and/or differently? (Again, you may pick as few as two thinkers to compare or as many as all four!).
Note: The ideas from Chapter Four of They Say / I Say, “Yes / No / Okay, But,” while different, may nevertheless be helpful here. In that chapter, the authors suggest that when we add the “I Say” part, we can disagree–and explain why, agree–but with a difference, or agree and disagree simultaneously. In this paper, we aren’t yet adding the “I Say” piece, but we can use the framework and templates to establish the relationship between the authors we are comparing. If they disagree, we can explain why. If they agree, we can show the difference. And we can always show simultaneous agreement and disagreement–in other words, the thinkers are alike in this way but different in this other way. The templates in the chapter may be helpful in figuring out how to express this in writing.
This framework not grabbing you? Make it your own within the goals of the assignment—just reach out to me (Leila) to run your idea by me or brainstorm together.
Source Expectations (i.e. how to use the “thinkers”):
Use frequent quotations from the texts/videos of the thinkers you select. This may mean rewatching videos to capture specific quotations.
Be careful to distinguish your own ideas from the ideas of the thinkers in order to avoid plagiarism. A comparative frame can help with that (i.e. “Harris believes that technology’s main focus is to shape our choices while Alter believes that addictiveness is technology’s central goal” makes it clear that you are giving us the ideas of two thinkers while “Technology’s main focus is to shape our choices” sounds like you had this idea yourself. When in doubt, reach out!
Follow MLA guidelines for essay format and citations; however, no “Works Cited” is needed for this essay.
Essay Components:
An introduction that creates reader interest
A clear and interesting thesis statement that answers the question of the prompt
PIES body paragraph structure (this means using evidence and clearly explaining that evidence in each body paragraph)
A conclusion that answers the “so what?” question—if everything you’ve written is true, why does it matter?