ENGL 376MM:
New Media Studies

A Fall 2008 course at the University of Mary Washington exploring the discourses of counter-factual world building in new media culture.

If Lil' Wayne Believes It, It Must Be True

"The world is about to end in 2012... 'cause the Mayans made calendars, and they stop at 2012. I got encyclopedias on the bus... The world is about to end as we know it. You can see it already. A planet doesn't exist - there's no more Pluto... Mosquitoes bite you and you die. And a black man and a woman are running for president."
- Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. AKA Lil' Wayne

I created an ARG based on the Mayan Calendar theory that the world will end December 21, 2012. It sounds a little strange, but it actually sends a message to players that I think will be influential in the future.

Read and enjoy!

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