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Dude Soup Analysis Essay

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In this audio-visual analysis we will examine an hour long weekly podcast entitled Dude Soup presented by Funhaus. Funhaus is a YouTube gaming channel whose members consists of nine males and one female. The channel’s primary demographic is males between the age of twenty and thirty, as this is evident by the language they use, jokes they tell, and by their sponsors. The podcast is described as “all the gaming, nerd culture, and meat-packing industry commentary you can handle” (funhaus.roosterteeth.com, 2016). This specific episode features four members of the group; Lawrence, Adam, James, and Bruce in which they discussed topics ranging from comic books, a female Iron man, movies and their interpretations of them, which directors they like …show more content…

In addition, we will explore the context in which the members of the group communicate with their intended audience using mass communication. The last part will try to examine the recent changes in the comic-book world in regard to giving the traditional male superhero role to a female lead and what changes might it bring forth by breaking some of the female gender stereotypes and norms. The context in which the communication occurred between the individuals in the podcast can be classified as small-group communication. Tubbs defines small-group communication as the “process by which there is three or more members of a group exchange verbal and non-verbal messages in an attempt to influence each other” (Tubbs, 2016, p.19). Verbal messages are any “type of spoken communication that uses one or more words” (Tubbs, 2016, p.11) whereas nonverbal messages are “messages we transmit without words or over and above the worlds we use” (Tubbs, 2016, p.12). In this evaluation of communication that occurs in the podcast, we can clearly identify both types of messages being used to transmit meaning. An example of a verbal message in this context would be Bruce telling Lawrence directly how much he thinks

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