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the 6-page Essay on Public Science Persuasion. Why is this important? Well, if science “works well” at the outer edges of its disciplines, between experts, the analysis of the public representation of science allows us to evaluate how well it constructs and contains the meaning of scientific inquiry for mass audiences, and hence for policy, funding, education, and cultural values. If science is perceived as embodying a lack of moral, pragmatic, aesthetic, or spiritual values then how can it rightly direct society’s future growth? It may be that scientists and the organizations they work for must learn to direct their understanding, not exclusively to expert objective audiences—as they are obligated in the Scientific Method—but subjectively, in the consideration of public values: political, aesthetic, ethical, philosophical, psychological, and even spiritual. In order to investigate this paradox, select CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC SCIENCE ARTIFACTS that interest you and analyze their UNDERLYING VALUES, BIASES, ASSUMPTIONS, AND/OR SPECIFIC MEANS OF PERSUASION in a 6-page Essay on Public Science Persuasion. There is no limit to the type of questions that could interest us. The following are examples of the kind of artifacts that could be analyzed, but be confident in choosing those artifacts that will motivate you to do your best work: with the Claim:
Trumps tweets have negative physiological impacts on people who get their information on politics off social media.
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Our thoughts and actions are significantly influenced by those of other people in different
ways. This occurs even when we are passively observing them, following their actions, or
complying their requests. The level of influence is even more significant when the person in
question is in a position of high authority or when such a person is held in high regard by a large
number of people. When such an individual makes a claim, it’s more likely to be believed by a
large number due to the influence and position they already have. Dimaggio (2017) define
persuasion as a form of social influence in which an audience is intentionally encouraged to
adopt an idea, attitude, or course of action by symbolic means. In the social sphere, it’s essential
to investigate communication's critical role in persuasion and social influence processes, from
the way influential messages are composed to the technologies that disseminate them and the
effects they have on various audiences. Based on the Toulmin’s original claim-making model of
evidence, we shall come up with a claim and defend it using different forms of evidence to
persuade the reader to accept our position.
Claim: Trump's tweets have negative physiological impacts on people who get their information
on politics off social media.
Over the past decade, the use of social media has gained popularity around the world
which has seen millions of people join the platforms. Often, these platforms are used to
communicate and pass important messages across the world and are not as limited as the
traditional media platforms. Twitter is one of the social media with a very high following both
locally and inter...