Idea Notes: Direct Transcription

Tin can to cell phone, lines leading to other information centers.
Where we were to where we are now.

Electronic Communication is changing society
by:
being more plugged in more often,
affecting relationships and the way we communicate
blurring the boundaries (public/private, work/home)
safety issues - positives (use in emergencies) and negatives (car crashes)
degrading language

Surgeon General's Warning for cell phone use
Cell phone only room
Ad languages - ie: guaranteed to increase your work week!

Roads, or pathways. cell phone obstacles in the road, but free and clear in the HOV (or cell phone free) lane

Uses are links in a chain, they drag you down the more you gather.

Electronic communication tug of war

Communication = maze

Smash your phone, throw your phone away

Uncomfortable situations; man talking on the phone while in the bathroom.

Replace faces with emoticons

Speech bubbles with only emoticons

"Face of Society"
"This is the face of your friend"

Relate emoticons to statistics

Reverse cutouts - instead of the head missing, it is just the the emoticon in place of the head and the body isn't there.

Electronic communication land

Armies of emoticons
Emoticon pets

Vocabulary of text based interaction. Using "send," "delete," "ignore" and "send to all" in regular conversation.

Emoticons as a metaphor that illustrates the logical extremes of current behavior.

Emoticons replacing emotion expression (emoticon head)

Show people interacting, but using electronic means - text a greeting or show the screen with a text greeting.

Expressionless verbalization of text message "actions." Saying "freaking out" with a straight face as an example of the deficiency of textual communication.
Or - take the person out and have the cell phone talking to you.

Here's your sign; Here's your emoticon


Mockery of communication - take to the logical extreme.

Possible take-aways:
masks of emoticons
brochures that help you make your own mask
survey and stamp your response