kairos questions

Kairos Issue: Group Silence

1. I think I will need to something to show my issues urgency and somehow make it relevant. I believe I can do thing by providing statistics about the rising use of heroin amongst high schoolers, or anyone for that matter. Furthermore I can add to its urgency by giving facts about the high risk of using heroin. This is will (hopefully) instill in the audience the extreme health risks involved with heroin and will motivate them to act.
2. This issue seems to be divided by age. Adults such as parents, teachers, coaches tend to favor speaking up about drug use. While the younger generation isn’t necessarily against speaking up, but is indifferent about it. Since the kids, who are the target audience tend to be in different, the adults efforts to get them to speak up often go unheard or unheeded,
3. I don’t believe that power is really concentrated with this issue. Although adults put the most effort into getting their arguments heard, indifference often prevents them from being taken seriously. So in a sense, the power lies within the audience with whether they want to hear the arguments or not.
4. Since kids nowadays are very technologically orientated I think a good venue would be a website or a blog. This would give the audience easy access, and could include videos and interactional activities. Also websites tend to be less formal, and thus less boring.
5. Right now there are a lot of anti-drug commercials and commercials aimed towards at parents encouraging them to talk to their kids about drugs. This type of media I believe is an appropriate approach at persuasion for the younger generation, however these commercials are often made fun of by many people. T avoid this type of criticism with my own media, I will try not to make my argument come off so strong, and try to put the kids in a position of power. Also I feel that anti-drug commercials can be condescending and even subtly make fun of drug-users. In my rhetorical piece, I will stray away from being condescending and will be as down to earth as possible.