This particular blog informatively discusses piracy. It specifically focuses on current events involving piracy, lawsuits, and bills passed. One of the most recent blogs discusses a court case involving the Pirate Bay, which is a big torrent website. The author makes good use of displaying the question and answer dialogue on the website. He often uses satire and sarcasm to convey his message and to ridicule anti-piracy investigations. He reverts some to pathos, but also presents good logical appeal as to why he believes what he does. Although he doesn’t refer to himself often, you can feel him through the tone he uses, especially his use of satire.
This blog portrays a little more of a professional look (being that it is a company’s blog and not an individual’s on blogger). In addition, it also portrays information with what seems to be less bias. However, they are both discussing piracy and current events involving it. This blog focuses more on software piracy as opposed to music and movies. This blog makes good use of visual representations, such as the chart on the latest blog, displaying the different amounts of people who will or will not engage in piracy or hacking.
I feel that both of these blogs are successful at conveying their messages and make good use of their rhetorical devices. However, they are definitely catering to different audiences. The first blog is directed more towards people of likeminded distaste for anti-piracy ideals, whereas the second blog is more informative to someone with little knowledge in the subject of piracy.
Your analysis of the two blogs was great; it really helped me know what each of them were about and how they were using their tones and resources to identify with the reader. Personally, I think that people who use the voice of the first blog, satire or sarcasm, can attract more views because that kind of tone is most relatable to personal feelings.
ReplyDeleteYou did a really good job analyzing the blogs and I really liked that you picked two blogs that weren't targeting similar-minded audiences. The satirical blog, as you mentioned, attracts individuals of the same taste and does a good job getting points across with tone and connotation whereas the company blog is more informational, as you also mentioned, which provided a diverse combined audience. Both blogs were very interesting and you did a great job analyzing their method of information delivery and appeal.
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