The Future of Computer Mediated Communication

Assignment Content

The following assignment allows you to write a paper and presentation as if you were going to a conference.

Congratulations! The proposal you submitted to the Information and Communication Technologies Conference at MIT this year has been accepted! You are now going to prepare both a paper and a presentation for a highly engaged audience of conference participants.

Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper and accompanying presentation evaluating the evolution, current impact, and future possibilities of computer-mediated communication (CMC).

Research and cite at least five scholarly sources in your paper. Make certain all citations and references are in proper APA format.

Complete the following in your paper:

Critically examine at least two aspects of CMC studies, such as social media or video games.

Theorize about the positive and negative directions CMC could take in society.

Identify avenues where CMC could make a difference--socially, medically, educationally, politically, and otherwise.

Explain the role of privacy in computer mediated communication.

Create and present a brief 5- to 7-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation highlighting the main points of your research paper. Include at least one audience interactive component. Incorporate extensive notes and APA formatted references and citations into your presentation.

Submit both your paper and presentation with appropriate course-level APA formatting.