During this semester, I uncovered a multitude of literacy practices that the discourse community used to address on another whenever communicating. There were active members on Tumblr that had a very interactive online community were the fans would write, share, and exchange feedback about The Walking Dead. Studying The Walking Dead I cultivated a way to connect to the fandom community through literacy. When I started this class, I thought literacy was simple just reading and writing. However, this ethnography research on my fandom taught me that literacy events is not all the same when trying to learn literacy. It showed me that only you can control your thoughts on literacy. I found out that going through tags, reposting blogs, and interacting through surveys to help me improve my knowledge on literacy.
Drezner, D.W. (2010) Night of the Living Wonks. Foreign Policy 180, 34-38. Web. July/August 2010 Social media literacy in an online environment is different compared to other literacy environments like when I was conducting interviews face to face. This article is based on the theory of zombies where it talks about how the infected became so popular over the years. When this article …show more content…
It talks about the development of the classic zombie films to the modern zombie. With the improvement of zombies we can see that it had a social impact. In one of Romero’s classic films Dawn of the Dead, it reflects on the society failures with the unfolding disaster that happen during that time. With success you have to keep your audience “zombifyed”. With new concepts and ideas, this extended the franchise to create arguable the best zombie movie. In (2004) Shawn of the Dawn capitalized on that new idea and add humor to horror. By making the two leading characters funny, but still relying on the phrase unfolding disasters they made a box office
Drezner, D.W. (2010) Night of the Living Wonks. Foreign Policy 180, 34-38. Web. July/August 2010 Social media literacy in an online environment is different compared to other literacy environments like when I was conducting interviews face to face. This article is based on the theory of zombies where it talks about how the infected became so popular over the years. When this article …show more content…
It talks about the development of the classic zombie films to the modern zombie. With the improvement of zombies we can see that it had a social impact. In one of Romero’s classic films Dawn of the Dead, it reflects on the society failures with the unfolding disaster that happen during that time. With success you have to keep your audience “zombifyed”. With new concepts and ideas, this extended the franchise to create arguable the best zombie movie. In (2004) Shawn of the Dawn capitalized on that new idea and add humor to horror. By making the two leading characters funny, but still relying on the phrase unfolding disasters they made a box office