TED Talk? No I Talk

Joe Sabia- The technology of storytelling.

Summary-

Joe Sabia is telling us how the art of storytelling has not changed at all even from the caveman times. The ways that we communicate these stories has advanced along with the technology we use to get our point across. The way that stories are told continue to advance with the novelty of technology. However, the stories that are being told are recycled and do not change as the ways of telling stories due. From the beginning stories were told with painting depictions on cave walls then we advanced to the first written stories. After the written stories, humans advanced to film and from there we eventually ended up at social media where most of our kids’ stories are going to be told. This speaker uses a display behind him and uses a really storytelling tone with phrases like “Once upon a time.” This tone and the technology that he uses helps to illustrate his point that you can tell a story in the same way but using different technology. The speaker does a good job of telling a story like he was speaking to a bunch of people but using his technology to provide sub sequential support.

The speaker, Joe Sabia, exploits ethos and logos to get his points across but does not use pathos. He uses logos in order to provide reasoning for the advancement of storytelling. He also uses logos to show us how the stories and art of storytelling has not changed as we are still trying to get the same methods across to an audience. Sabia then uses ethos when he is talking about historical events of the creation of the storybook and the original ways of storytelling throughout history. Also he uses irony to illustrate his point about how stories are told has advanced. Sabia uses and iPad and a screen projector to illustrate his points and tell his story.

This TED talk relates to me because technology is such an important part of our lives and has changed many things but one thing that remains is the art of storytelling. This will forever be true as the art of storytelling will always be the same and the goal of storytelling will be the same despite the different ways that stories are told. I can relate to this TED talk because I use technology just like many other teenagers do to tell stories about my everyday life. I own a Twitter and Facebook and use these platforms of social media to tell little events that happen in my life. This will also be important in the future as technology develops that we continue to tell stories in the same way in order to help maintain a strong society.