Artifact Advertising Assignment
Learning Objective: Students will display their ability to identify nonve
al communication
artifacts by analyzing a print or video advertisement...Students will use the Internet to discover a
print, website or video advertisement that clearly displays the use of communication artifacts...
(Artifactual communication is the use of adornments to express nonve
al communication about
one self to others through the use of tattoos, piercings, jewelry, makeup,clothing and hairstyles).
Finally, students will identify the artifacts and use course concepts to analyze the perceived
meaning of the artifacts presented in the advertisement...
Write a FULL PARAGRAPH or more for each of the following questions:
1​. What meaning do you think the artifact is supposed to express to the audience?
2​. What do you think this artifact illustrates about the potential buyer’s identity or personality?
3​. Which demographic groups do you think this artifact attempts to appeal to? (ie. Age,
generation, gender, etc.).
4​. Examine the advertisement carefully for the other nonve
al communication systems being
used by the advertiser (body type, age, gender, posture, gestures, color, touch, spatial relations,
facial expressions, etc.).
5​. Identify and discuss the advertiser’s use of some of these nonve
al systems to sell he
his
product.
6​. What is the advertiser trying to make the viewer (reader) think? How do you know this?