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One discourse community I recently joined is the Webtoon community. People part of the community are very diverse so one of the only “requirements” to be part of the community is to be interested in webtoons. Most members communicate through the Webtoon platform but may also communicate through social media and other forms of online communication. Webtoon creators use the platform and social media to communicate chapter updates, hiatuses, and any other information that they may have for their audience. Readers interact with the creators also through the same means. Webtoon’s main genre is online comics, but they’ve also expanded to making videos and tutorials to help members of the community start their own comics. There is a lot of specific jargon that Webtoon users use. For example, an update to a webtoon would be called an episode, which people outside of the community would normally call a chapter. Other terms like fast pass, Hirahara’s wig, and hairgel would only click with people who have immersed themselves in the community.

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I’m part Woodland Public Library Community, I specifically live in the area and I work there.

We know that the library systems --is set up my the dewey decimal systems & alphabetical order

We know the genre sections at the library.

We know he acronyms of the various organizations

We know the events the library provides, summer programs, other resources that link the library

Our ways of communication can vary from email, to text message to WhenIWork app

Known procedures, and systems in the placed by the library

Our goals reside within trying to keep the libraries system in order and flowing.

Within this community we are aware of the functions we provide. And generally when facilitating events we can easily provide information or know who to connect them with that can help patrons.

Would know the library like the back of our hand.

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There might be some people out there who have these formal communities like, anything related to being professional or about movements, but here I am with the meme community. I may not be the most knowledgeable on every meme there is out there, but we all like to share a good laugh. The group does not necessarily focus on popular memes, but with pictures we find on the internet or something random we took on our phones. How our memes start off is in the group chat, we send a picture and one by one the others respond to it in meme form. To record our most memorable memes, we put it on display in our slides, to reflect our memes throughout the years. When it comes to evaluations, we usually trust one person to decide whether the meme is worthy for our “meme-ories”. Which is usually a yes if the meme has been hot for a couple of weeks since most of our memes only last a day or two.

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I’m in the photography discourse community, but I don’t see myself as an expert. I do love photography, but I still see myself as a beginner. When I first started, I did not know what I was doing and only thought that the most expensive cameras are the best cameras. So, if I were to meet someone and thought this I would know that they are an “outsider”/beginner.  Other discourse communities within photography, would be what type of camera you use or what you shoot with. For example, I first started with a film camera I thrifted at a Goodwill for $10. Long story short, I was recently able to purchase an old digital camera worth $200 for $50. I guess you can say I’m part of those two communities and an “accepted” member. Everyone I met in the photography community, have been very nice and were able to guide me through this journey I’m still walking. This was my first camera :) ❤️

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One discourse community I am currently part of is the Ivy League Project, which was founded in 1992. This program was designed to encourage economically disadvantaged students to apply to some of the best colleges in America. To be in this program, students were expected to maintain a high GPA and be enrolled in honor classes. The Ivy League Project also required students to attend a minimum of six Saturday meetings throughout the school year. Through this, I was able to develop soft skills, participate in oral communication activities, and the importance of networking. This program allowed students to communicate with one another through their website or text messages. We were also given the chance to network with special guest speakers and ask questions regarding their educational journey. In order to join, students had to fill out a long process application form, submit a total of three essays, and two letters of recommendation.

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A discourse community that I am apart of is the gaming community. The main purpose when it comes to loving video games is to play it and having the most fun with it. Simple goals can be wanting get specific achievements in the game or wanting to obtain a special item. When it comes to communicating in this discourse community  consist of typing in the gaming chat or video chatting with your friends when playing with them. Another way of communication is having a gaming headset, so you can talk while playing. When you play games there is not a very large emphasis on spelling everything correctly. You really just want to shoot abbreviations through the chat, so you can send a message and quickly get back to playing. The abbreviation use in chats can be the special jargon that only gamers might understand. A way to prove your expertise in this communtity is when you are good at a game you are playing. You have achievements and have been playing games for awhile. You know tricks not the basic player would know. It is an honor to be apart of the gaming community.

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The most recent discourse community that I've been a part of is the orchestra community in my area. You can spot us sometimes, especially, the violins/violas, because we carry our instruments everywhere we go (usually to school and back home since we are students). This is very apparent when there’s a concert hall nearby. There’s certain words and phrases that we use between ourselves that only we know, like piano/forte, spiccato, arco/pizzicato, col legno, celli, rosin, rock stop, etc. We all believe in practicing and investing time in our instruments because it doesn’t come magically. Our purpose is to become better musicians, sound good together, and perform as a team. I think we all share topics of music theory and others that relate to each of individual instruments. Which tells us what’s right and wrong sometimes, there’s a certain way to play certain notes or music. The teacher/conductor is like our guide/expert in this field, they are mainly responsible for keeping us in time and we as individuals have to follow them/be our own leaders in each of our own sections. We also call each other by our instruments, like I am a violin (not literally but we know it means that I play the violin). Also, we all study or read music from composers and perform them, which only musicians would do.

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A discourse community that I am a part of is the running community. A runner usually has a watch or an app to track down their runs. We like to give each other a thumbs up on the apps or write a happy comment on others’ runs. When we are hanging out we like to talk to each other about how our last run went, like if the weather was good or bad or if we felt tired or not. Being a part of this community also means being a part of a family. This community likes to encourage others to try their best and to never give up. We hold a belief that there is always room for improvement and for others to join. Since I am specifically a distance runner we call runs by their names like tempo runs or easy runs, pace times for runs, and trails to take while running.

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One of the discourse communities which I am in right now is with my employment. I work at a clothing store that is pretty well known. I work at Zumiez. I've been working there for about a year now.

I consider this a discourse community because my coworkers don't even feel like they are my coworkers, I consider them my friends. Sometimes after work, we all decide on a place to go eat and we just hang out after work. During work it's always fun and game. when I'm at work it never feels like a job, it feels like I'm hanging out with my friends. we have a different position at work. There is a position that is called "seasonal part-time", which just means that those individuals only have the job for a season, and after that, they get let go. I am a part-time sales associate which means that I'm there permanently.  since we have waves of seasonal workers that means that we get to meet many different people.

I am still friends with the individuals that were part of the seasonal part-time wave group. We all respect each other and we all agree that our personalities intertwine in a good way. we always have fun. I would consider this a discourse community because you have to get passed the hiring process to join.

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A discourse community I am a part of is gaming. I'm not saying a specific game because I  like to think that I don’t just belong to one game. A gamer doesn’t just play one single game as if that's their only choice, there are hundreds of games out there to play and that can be played interchangeably. Many games are similar to one another and that is something that can be connected to methodologies and, too, how one plays. In this “discourse” there are many levels to a player. A player can be highly skilled or just beginning and learning to understand the methods. Usually in games the players communicate through headsets and mics, but if that’s not the case players will also mark the game and make gestures if possible. However you can always know when someone isn't apart of the discourse they don’t understand the certain tools/places in the game or when the controls aren't obvious.

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One discourse community that I am apart of is called SMASH. It is a community of low income minorities who are interested in pursuing a career in STEM. To join spring of that same year you have to go through an intense application process that entails 3 stages. Once you are admitted to the programs you spend 3 consecutive summers living and learning on a college campus. It is one thing to be accepted by the program, but you know you have been accepted by the SMASH community once you have reached the end of your first year with the program and you have made it through all of the classes and networking nights and can finally enjoy the fun part of the program which is connecting and bonding with everyone else.
The common interest in this discourse group would be STEM and the pursuit to higher education. One defining quality between I SMASH Scholar and a SMASH Virtual User is that SMASH Scholars actually got the opportunity to live and learn on a college campus. Though the SMASH Scholar family is very welcoming discourse community group outsiders would be defined as people who did not experience the program in the same manner ads we did.

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One discourse community I am a part of right now is the community of Undergraduates at UCD. As an undergraduate, one common goal we share is graduating, or completing all four years for our degree. This goes hand-in-hand with the goal of having a degree to further our careers and future. Furthermore, means of communication include group chats in apps such as Instagram, GroupMe, and Snapchat. In these group chats, undergraduates exchange information about resources for a variety of things, such as housing, classes, scholarships, etc. Undergraduates do have special jargon such as referring to undergraduates as 'c/o 2024' and things of such sort. Furthermore, this community tends to also use language that is common in the community of teens and "gen-z". I can recognize someone who is also a part of this community by their graduation date and also if they are experiencing the same things as the community. For example, if they are looking for resources to find the right beginning courses or if they are having trouble navigate certain UCD websites. More experienced UCD students or higher-level students can be considered 'outsiders' since they have different goals, experiences, etc.

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One discourse community that I am a part of is the skating community. It is a community of people who literally just want to travel and skate spots. They want to record sick skating flicks and spend time together. There are times where the community does illegal activities such as trespassing but we have no intention in creating violence. The overall requirements of being a part of the skating community is to overall have a desire to have fun with a skateboard. The skating community identifies a member by expressing these following forms of expression, cruising, learning tricks, going to a skatepark, and watching skating videos. As long as you have a passion to be involved in some way or form of skating, you are an active member of the skating community. I know a lot of veterans who used to skate a while back and they still ride a skateboard one in a while. You do not even have to skate, you can film and even ride a type of board. People who classify as outsiders would be bikers, and scooters.