Isis Rhetorical Analysis

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The internet has enhanced the ways of conveying information and especially those involving advertisement and drawing the users' attention to a particular topic of interest. Notably, apart from the print media and television, web browsing is the modern media of passing on info. However, other than its positive impact, such as improving the ease of accessing information, web browsing has come along with its hazardous effects, which have been fueled by hacking and distribution of obscene information. Markedly, it is common nowadays for hackers and militant groups such as the ISIS to drive online traffic to their websites and acquire public attention. For instance, they can achieve this through enticing internet users to click on nude celebrity pictures or ISIS videos such as those involving heinous acts such as beheadings. This paper makes a summary and a rhetoric analysis of Sally Kohn's article ‘Don't click on celebrity nude photos, ISIS videos.'
Kohn's article warns individuals concerning the dangers of clicking on ISIS beheading videos and nude picture that appear on web pages. Notably, according to her postulation, making …show more content…
She posits that apart from the existence of the video, it also fueled a revenge mentality in Britain, just in the same way a similar video in the U.S did. The U.S video was concerning the beheading of two American Journalists - Steven Sotloff and James Foley. Notably, the aftermath of the video was a military action by the Americans (Kohn par. 5). Referring to another video released by ISIS featuring a speech by James Cantlie, a British Journalist while in captivity, Kohn indicates that all that the ISIS are after is publicity. Outstandingly, to support this deduction, Kohn highlights that the ISIS post the videos because they want people to watch them and thus by clicking them, one is complying to what the terrorist are
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