Critique-Ipod World

Critique of “iPod World: The End of Society?”

Overview of Article

In this article, Andrew Sullivan points out that nowadays more and more people use iPod or MP3 player when they are walking down the street or outside. Those people are called the iPod people. While the people in outside, usually immerse in his or her own little musical world. When each walking to their own soundtrack, they choose music that they what to hear, watch in their own news and music video. Andrew Sullivan mentions those iPod people become isolate their own lives. They reject some sounds that they don’t what to hear, shutting out anyone not in their own world. To this end, he acknowledge that in iPod world, we indulge own music world and we become masters of our own interest, but we might miss something from real world. This world becomes an isolate society.

Critique of Article

First, Andrew Sullivan mentions a phenomenon that now many people use iPod or MP3 player, it’s spreading. Those people immerse their own music world. The article gives reader clear situation background.

Also, Andrew Sullivan points out some problems, while he mentions about people can manage their own music and video in the iPod world as well as some examples about those iPod people might miss something from real world. The article would have been clear why using those “ i “ products will become isolate.

To be fair, the author does not give us main point in the first paragraph. He mentions many situations in the article of beginning, but I think he should tell us his opinion in the beginning. Because of that, reader can immediately understand what the author’s point of view.

In the end of article, the author points out the problem of in the iPod world. He writes only one paragraph to describe the fault. I really hope he can gives us more detail about why we cannot use those products.