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

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"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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