Audience Analysis

As I was searching blogs about human trafficking, it's evident that human trafficking isn't a highly debated topic. Most people seem to inspire a call to action towards their readers. Blogs range from firsthand experience after dealing with victims of trafficking to research of its prevalence throughout the world.


The two blogs I have decided to analyze are about human services offered online. This has become a growing problem that correlates with our dependency on internet usage. The internet is also easily accessible to many people throughout the world nowadays. The first blog focuses on the actual selling of human services found on the website known as craigslist.org. The second blog was found on the tosh.o website as Daniel Tosh shares his opinion of a young girl selling her mother on ebay.


Children for Sale on Craigslist:


I'm assuming that when a person thinks about human trafficking, there are negative thoughts and opinions about it; after all, it is illegal, not to mention, just plain wrong. Shelley Seale uses real life instances and quotes from the Director of the Polaris Project, a movement that combats human slavery to convey her feelings about the shady business deals found on craisglist. Seale quotes Chon who says, "In one recent case, two Chicago women were charged for selling girls as young as 14 years old on Craigslist. The girls were forced to have sex with 10-12 men per day, and the traffickers made tens of thousands of dollars." As soon as I read this I immediately gawked in disgust with an "oh my God. That is just sick." It's so easy to gain the support of your readers by just giving the details. In many ways this is like Maus. Shelley is sharing the actuality of the situation without exaggerating the specifics. 


Don't Sell People on eBay:


As mentioned earlier, a woman's granddaughter had the bright idea to try and sell her grandmother over eBay. In hilarious Tosh.0 fashion, Daniel Tosh makes this incidence the center of his blog post. Since it was quite an odd occurrence, it became the butt of many jokes. Not to mention, your everyday, run of the mill sex trafficking guru usually doesn't take the form of a 10 year old girl. This instance is so easy to capitalize on for an easy punchline on a late night show or on a parody like Team America.