For their final project, second semester Northern Virginia Community College Composition students (ENG 112) work in groups to create presentations that introduce, analyze, and draw a conclusion about a significant American cultural artifact, (a trend, a celebrity, or anything that significantly impacts American culture). Students work together to build a persuasive argument using a combination of text, multimedia, and visual design. Students develop a claim about the negative or positive impact of the artifact on the demographic of American culture it affects. Alternatively, students may discuss what the artifact says about our culture. These students are asked to explore a cultural artifact and determine its significance and/or role in our society. Students are encouraged to present their findings using any media they wish to implement.

1. How Has Texting Changed
Communication in Today’s
Society?
Presented By:
Melissa Johnson, Renetha Addo, Vanessa Cisneros & Tyler Morris

2. The more
elaborate our
means of
communication,
the less we
communicate.
~Joseph Priestley

3. The Telegraph
Invented by
Samuel F.B Morse
in 1837
The Original
Telephone
Invented by
Alexander Graham
Bell
In 1876.
He was just 29 years
old.
Candlestick
Phone
First
introduced in
1926

4. Types of Phones thru out the 20th Century

6. Good words are worth
much, and cost little.
~George Herbert

7. Oh my God!
OMG
MOMS ON FACEBOOK VERSION OF TEXTING SYMBOLS

12. Whatever words we utter
should be chosen with care
for people will hear them
and be influenced by them
for good or ill.
Buddha

15. Text Bullying
~Occurs mostly among adolescents and teens
~Text messages may be sent anonymous
~Text bullies are meaner because they don’t see their
victims
~Victims can be targeted 24 hrs. a day
~Can lead to severe consequences for victim;
depression, anxiety, social withdrawal and suicide

16. • Over texting is affecting the
quality of effective
communication in the
workplace, relationships and
with family
• 93% of communication takes
place with tone of voice and
body language
• 7% with words
• With texting there is no tone
of voice, expression or
feelings
• Psychological consequence;
over texting can compromise
the ability to develop
emotional intelligence
• Emotional communication is
important to sustain any kind
of relationship
• People that rely on texting
don’t learn to read emotional
cues that would help one to
understand another person

18. Technology is just a
tool. In terms of
getting the kids
working together
and motivating
them the teacher is
the most important.
~Bill Gates

19. From This
To This

21. Holograms Better Than
Star Trek’s
We all have heard of the
Tupac hologram, but a
man recently gave a
meeting in a different
country as a hologram in
the conference room
3-D Browsing
If you've ever seen the
movie “Hackers” or the
depiction of the
internet in “Futurama”,
the idea is that you
could walk into a
virtual 3d online store
and select
goods/services

22. ~ The telephone comes into existence in 1876
~ The cell phone starts to become available to the public in 1991
~ In 1997 cell phones were developed with full keyboards for messaging
~ Positive outcomes from texting are keeping in touch with family and
friends for all ages groups. Reminders and information sharing are
helpful to all ages as well
~ Sexting, text bullying and texting and driving can be negative and
dangerous outcomes from texting
~ Holograms and 3-D Browsing are all coming to texting in the future

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Vanessa Cisneros Andrade

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02 May 2015
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Tyler Morris

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Melissa Johnson

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Web. 04 May 2015.
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Renetha Addo