Mass media and the internet have caused people’s attention spans to get shorter. However, the overall effect has been positive: while people are less able to focus on one thing, they more than make up for it with an enhanced ability to sort through large quantities of information and find what’s important.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
The topic raises the controversial issue of whether the mass media and internet helping people to find the most important news by enhancing people's ability of sorting through a stream of news or these media are just shortening the span of people's attention. Indisputably, when there are a lot of news, it is hard to focus on one. And many times, there are news which are wrongly described as internet has less restriction then conventional media. Nevertheless,
it is the modern mass media that actually have broaden people outlook and scope of thinking. Thus, I generally disagree with the opinion that internet or mass media have shorten people's span of attention and would argue that it is the other way round.
First of all, with the rise of mass media, people are exposed to wider range of news with nuance details. I would like to point out that, before these modern media's existence, people were exposed to very little portion of what is actually happening around. To illustrate, let us look at the example of viral videos getting justice for the victims. In this circumstance, obviously, with previous types of media, those incidents happening in the videos would not be represented with so much reality as it was happening. So people would have been less effected. Consequently, it is obvious that the help of internet, it helped people to get an evidence in their hand to act against it.
Furthermore, it help to grow sense of sorting. Both common sense and personal experience have told us that
Admittedly, modern mass media often spread some news which are wrongly describes or fake. This is true specially when it comes to internet where there is hundreds of news portal craving for audience. In addition, with massive amount of news, sometimes, many important facts get less attention than lucrative one. However, I would still argue that it just a small odd side of great thing. Because, it is the mass media that changed the course of justice with spread of news.
In conclusion, although mass media have some disadvantages, I would conclude that it's benefit are way past these disadvantage. As long as some measurements are performed and some areas are involved, mass media will be considered a blessing.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, consequently, first, furthermore, however, look, nevertheless, so, still, then, thus, in addition, in conclusion, first of all
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 7.0 12.4196629213 56% => OK
Conjunction : 9.0 14.8657303371 61% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 34.0 33.0505617978 103% => OK
Preposition: 53.0 58.6224719101 90% => OK
Nominalization: 11.0 12.9106741573 85% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1872.0 2235.4752809 84% => OK
No of words: 376.0 442.535393258 85% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.97872340426 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.40348946061 4.55969084622 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.65586443358 2.79657885939 95% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 215.323595506 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.534574468085 0.4932671777 108% => OK
syllable_count: 576.0 704.065955056 82% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 12.0 6.24550561798 192% => OK
Article: 1.0 4.99550561798 20% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.38483146067 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.2124798501 60.3974514979 80% => OK
Chars per sentence: 98.5263157895 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7894736842 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.15789473684 5.21951772744 137% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 8.0 7.80617977528 102% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 10.0 10.2758426966 97% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.324047794093 0.243740707755 133% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0993090436777 0.0831039109588 119% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0646158633816 0.0758088955206 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.157696517846 0.150359130593 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0839110635927 0.0667264976115 126% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.9 14.1392134831 84% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 60.65 48.8420337079 124% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 12.1743820225 78% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.6 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.44 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 100.480337079 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.0 11.8971910112 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.