Yahoo!

Fantasy Football
ALEXANDER POMPEE, GIOVANNI BORGES, ANTON SEALEY ENC3375

DR. SCOTT

Purpose

The purpose of this presentation is to evaluate Yahoo! Fantasy Football as a website for beginners.

This presentations will answer the following questions:

Is it easy to navigate for a beginner that has never played before?

Does it represent a discourse community?

Does the website teach new players on how to be effectively win fantasy football?

Audience

Our audience are people who have never played fantasy football or are new to the game.

Discourse Community
A discourse community is a group of people who groups that have goals or purposes, and use communication to achieve these goals. Each discourse community contains six defining characteristics:

Common goals
Methods of intercommunication Acts of participation that provide information or feedback

Possesses multiple genres

Acquires lexis specific to the community Level of members with a suitable degree of relevant content and discourse expertise

Claim #1

Yahoo! Fantasy Football is a discourse community.

Common Goals

Methods of intercommunication

Acts of participation that provide information or feedback

Possesses multiple genres

Possesses multiple genres

Acquires lexis specific to the community

Varying level of expertise

Claim #2