Abstract 

 

            The purpose for writing the presentation essay was to portray the differences that individuals have to assent to in Pyropuncher’s discourse community on YouTube.  These concepts originate from James Paul Gee, Wayne C. Booth and Mary Louise Pratt to further add to the conversation. The essay primarily focuses around key concepts such as discourse community evolving into a safe house, individuals communicating using rhetoric of assent to find common ground and seeing YouTube as an imaginary community where the majority of members will not meet up offline. The essay explores beyond the discourse community to outside members complicating Pyro’s authority of the contact zone leads to implications of reasons why outside members assent to Pyro and Pyro assenting to his subscribers to play games.   

 

Tags: #discourse community, #primary discourse, #secondary discourse, #literacy, #acquisition, #learning, #rhetoric, #rhetoric of assent, #blind assent, #common ground, #contact zone, #dogmatism, #skepticism #safe house, #imaginary community