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Zombie Media and Apocalyptic Preparedness
| When |
Tuesday, April 1, 2014 7:00pm to 12:42pm |
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| Where |
Art and Journalism Building, Ball State University Room 175 1001 N. McKinley Ave. |
| What | Education speakers, zombies |
Eric King Watts will examine how this genre is preoccupied with "end-of-days" fantasies that feed the motives of extreme preparedness groups. In particular, the talk will focus on "Zombie Preppers," a docudrama produced and aired on Discovery Channel as an example of how the genre composes a zombie outbreak as plausible. Lastly, the talk speculates on the potential communicative impacts brought about by repetitive exposure and intense consumption of the genre.