Penrod,+Diane.+Writing+and+Rhetoric+for+a+Ludic+Democracy

=**Penrod, Diane. "Writing and Rhetoric for a Ludic Democracy: YouTube, Fandom, and Participatory Pleasure."**= //Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric//. Ed. Heather Urbanski. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010.141-151. Print.

=Annotation= Diane Penrod explains in “Writing and Rhetoric for a Ludic Democracy: YouTube, Fandom, and Participatory Pleasure” that fans are becoming creators. They take things they love and put them together in ways that are creative. Because there are new media to explore, such as YouTube, people are getting more interested. There are new ways of learning things. People are more able to participate. By being able to participate in what they love and identify with, they also learn. They evolve. Because they themselves become creators, they gain a following of fans themselves.

The fans of //Star Wars//, //Battlestar Galactica//, and //Star Trek// are great examples. They take the meanings of these things and manipulate them. They change story lines. They change the meaning. Students can learn from this. They can take what they are fans of and use that to be creative. They can use rhetoric to change something in a way that will alter its meaning and garner a following. It takes them outside the academically-centered world and gives them a larger creative space.

=Works Cited= //Writing and the Digital Generation: Essays on New Media Rhetoric//. Ed. Heather Urbanski. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2010.141-151. Print.