1. http://www.ted.com/talks/john_mcwhorter_txtng_ is_killing_language_jk

2. Communication
What is Communication?

3. Communication
the act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings, etc., to someone else – Merriam-Webster
a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior <the function of pheromones in insect communication>; also : exchange of information – Merriam-Webster

4. Communication Simple definition
The transmission of a message from a source to a receiver

5. Communication
Interpersonal Communication
Mass Communication

6. SMCR Communications model (Lasswell, Shannon-Weaver)
Source
Message
Channel
Receiver
(effect)
Feedback

7. SMCR Communications model
Source
Message
Channel
Receiver
(Effect)
Feedback
Encoder
Decoder

8. Noise Noise is anything that interrupts the communications process
Can be very literal
Could be something technological

9. SMCR Communications model
Source
Message
Channel
Receiver
Feedback