Zombies. Of all the horrible monsters that humans have come up with in our time on this earth, zombies are my favorite. Whether they are the shambling masses of early cultural legends and horror films, or the Romero modern zombies who charge at you in a dead sprint (pun intended), I love them all. My first love, however, has always been politics and government. But how to combine the two into a capstone that will merge my experiences in both the political science and mass communications departments?
The answer was found in the original radio broadcast of "War of the Worlds". Presented as a believable new broadcast, it chronicled an alien invasion and hostile takeover of our planet. It was so legitimate in its presentation that people panicked, believing that the human race had come under attack. Adding to this, I've always enjoyed the medium of radio (I have the face for it, apparently), and knew almost as soon as our first capstone class started that I wanted to do a WotW style series of podcasts chronicling the zombie apocalypse in the United States.
Most of all, I want this to feel real enough that an outside listener would believe that the zombie apocalypse (or some other rabies style outbreak) was upon us. To add this sense of realism, along with added depth, I want to show how social networking such as facebook and twitter would play into the scenario, and how the government, people and media would interact with one another.
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