Chris+and+Becca

media type="custom" key="4921333" In our propaganda poster, we employed the tactic of instilling fear into the minds of our target audience, high school students, in order to get them to stop texting in school. The poster’s vibrant colors, along with its large font, make it an eye-catching placard. In the center of our poster is the popular cell phone, the iPhone, with a video of a teacher seizing a cell phone from a student’s hands being played on it. Surrounding the iPhone are four realistic mock text messages that are often sent or received by many high school students. The subject matter of these texts is about illegal activities, like underage drinking or possessing drugs. We tried to scare any possible in-school texters straight by saying “there could be more consequences than just confiscation” because when your phone is confiscated, your corresponding principal has the right to search through its contents, and if they read a text message that pertains to something unlawful or prohibited, there will be much harsher consequences than just the ones that there would have been for simply texting in school. At the bottom of our poster we ask, “Is it worth the risk?”, a question that forces texters to ask themselves whether the reward of texting in school is worth all of the risks.