http://mrcoyle.edublogs.org/files/2008/03/blog-cartoon1.jpg1.What are the main visual elements?
There is a family of 3 sitting at the dinner table. A father, mother, and a son.
2.What issue is this cartoon about?
The issue if Social Networking, also know as Blogging. Whether its a good thing, or a bad thing.
3. What is the cartoonist’s opinion on this issue?
I think the artist is moving towards this a bit on the negative side. It's hard to say 100%, but through analyzing the quote, I feel this is my best choice. It's showing how we post so many things up on Facebook, Myspace, etc., that we are putting out a little too much information for people to easily find, hence the father asking if he should just visit his blog to see how his son's day was.
4. What evidence in the cartoon supports your opinion on how the cartoonist feels?
As I said before, the whole tonal quality of the quote makes it sound that way. Also, the son's expression is a bit like "What?". How both of his parents are looking at him may also be a slight giveaway.
5. Why is this cartoon ironic?
Well usually, the dinner table is classically the place to talk about how your day was at work, school, etc. Yet, the father is asking whether is necessary to talk about it when he can just visit his son's blog.
6. How does this cartoon relate to our study of technology and the future?
Social Networks are becoming part of our lives more and more. More information is going aroung in SN's. Maybe in the future, they will be even more important. Also, what we put up on blogs can effect us in the future in many ways.
7. What other techniques could the cartoonist have used to make this cartoon more persuasive?
Maybe he could have made each person's facial expression more elaborate, to see what each character was really feeling.
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