Blogging Cartoon: An analysis.

The main visual elements of this cartoon are focused around the child and parents eating at a dinner table. They are in a room with modern technology, indicating this cartoon describes the present. The main issue of this cartoon is the use of information sharing technology among the younger, our, generation. While the cartoon doesn't do much except explain the child's age, the caption describes the authors opinion on this issue. He believes that the use of technology in the younger generation causes loss of personal contact. Creating new methods of sharing information will eventually eliminate the human element. This is implied from part of the caption, "we could read your blog...OR you could just tell us about your day." I believe that the irony shown in this cartoon is that WE, the children, are blogging OUR responses to this cartoon, so that our parents, our teachers can read our responses, instead of us just tellling them. This cartoon holds a warning much like the words of Kurt Vonnegut, and the countless examples we created in our socratic seminar. Using technology eliminates human interface. This cartoon is realtively well desgined, however I think that if the author wanted to achieve greater effect, he could have made it more aparent that the child was integrated with technology.