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Dr. McLaughlin
Multimedia Writing & Rhetoric
2 November 2015
The Dangers of Cell Phones on a College Campus
In many ways, technology comprises the base of how people function in todays society.
For instance, the American military, billion-dollar corporations, and even the average American
family rely heavily on their computers and other devices in order to function normally.
Furthermore, the average college students life also revolves around his or her technological
devices. While students computers are more for academic use, it seems that they are increasingly
becoming more and more dependent to their cell phones. Students use their phone for an alarm
clock, a calendar, a way to talk to friends, and so much more. As they become more dependent
on their phones, however, students find it harder and harder to put the phone down and
experience life outside the virtual world.
Students growing addiction to their phonesdubbed cell phone sickness in our video
is what motivated our project. While we constructed a satirical video that hopefully produced a
few laughs, this problem is still one of great concern. Our intended audience is college-age
young adults because at most universities, even here at Notre Dame, most students are so
addicted to their phones that they forget to pay attention to reality. Everyday people will look at
their phone in the middle of conversations, important classes, or while commuting on campus.
The message we are trying to relay through our public service announcement is that cell phones
are dangerous. In the PSA, we greatly exaggerate the danger by having people falling down
stairs or running into trees while using their cell phones, but this issue is not to be taken light-