Comics, Comments, & Culture
This term describes people who read online content and comment on it.
What are "netizens"?
Before asking questions, Savini suggests we try to uncover this kind of “trouble” with the topic we are exploring.
What is a problem?
This kind of sentence should be focused and specific, answer your research question, and have a topic and a focus.
What is a thesis?
A Communist Party health campaign poster showed this happening to Mickey Mouse, an act that would likely surprise an American audience.
What is being stabbed (or staked)?
This villain, who appeared in the comic book Shang-Chi, is often considered a racist stereotype of Chinese culture.
Who is Fu Manchu?
The first of four steps Savini identifies as a way of “looking for trouble,” this process also precedes “focus” in another invention process.
What is notice (or noticing)?
This invention method involves starting with an idea and then looking for ideas that might group with that idea, branching ideas off of that idea, and continuing to look for groups.
What is clustering?
This technique for developing an argument uses a source to provide general information to explain the topic.
What is background?
“If Marvel doesn’t want to insult China, change The Mandarin to _________,” suggests one source in Erica Hu’s piece on Shang Chi.
What is "The English?"
Joseph Williams described this idea by asking the question, “What will you gain from answering your question or what will be lost if you do not answer your question?” (Hint: this is a different meaning of the word that means the thing we might put through Dracula, or Mickey Mouse’s, heart).
What is what is at stake? (or What is/are the stake(s)?)
This invention method can best be described as recursive—it circles back to the same process while moving forward with new ideas. You might think of it as a special kind of freewriting.
What is looping?
This technique for developing a topic uses a source to engage the ideas that it introduces into the conversation.
What is argument?
This dragon character will not appear in the live-action Mulan, a choice that led to some online backlash.
Who is Mushu?
Coined by management expert Roger Martin, this term for a way of unifying ideas can also be defined in terms he borrowed from F. Scott Fitzgerald as, ““the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”
What is integrative thinking?
This kind of mistaken thinking refers to the idea that someone will “continue a behavior or endeavor as a result of previously invested resources (time, money or effort).”
What is the sunk cost fallacy?
In his book The Lexus and the Olive Tree, this writer claims that cultural texts, like McDonald’s Big Macs, maintain their meaning as they travel from one culture to another.
Who is Thomas Friedman?