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In case you are wondering who the guy photographed above is…read on
Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the impacts of new media on human interaction. He graduated from the Kansas State University Anthropology Program the received his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Virginia in 2004. Mr. Wesch then pursued research on social and cultural change in Melanesia, focusing on the introduction of print and print-based practices like mapping and census-taking eventually inspiring him to examine the impacts of new media more broadly, especially digital media. Thus….launching the Digital EthnographyWorking Group, a team of undergraduates exploring human uses of digital technology. Coinciding with the launch of this group, Wesch created a short video, “Web 2.0…The Machine is Us/ing Us.” released on YouTube on January 31st 2007, it quickly became the most popular video in the blogosphere and has now been viewed over 3 million times. Take a look for yourself and tell me what you think, I will be back with my commentary in a moment.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g
Watch. Learn. Review. Then Discuss.
