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Get Some Proper Perspective on Online Video

November 29, 2008 at 9:00 am
by Christopher

In preparation for our upcoming newsletter on video, it occurred to me that I should post some links to a few very important videos by Dr. Michael Wesch. If you are unfamiliar with him, he is an assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University who was been researching the impact of media on humanity. He is responsible for the well known video The Machine is Us/ing Us, which hopefully you've seen. I've pasted it and some others below. Watch them!

The Machine is Us/ing Us (04:33)

Information R/evolution (05:29)

The last, and probably most important, video you should watch is called An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube. Embedding has been disabled for this video, so follow my link to watch it directly on YouTube. It is just under 1 hour, so get comfortable...

Mark O'Brien | December 2, 2008 9:13 PM

Well, an hour and five minutes or so later, I have to say that I'm not disappointed! Although, I do think the first two shorter videos are actually more interesting.

Chris | December 2, 2008 9:43 PM

Wow, Mark, you definitely have the eye of the tiger! I liked the longer video a lot, but The Machine is Us/ing Us was definitely the most popular of the group.