6. August 2008
Mike Wesch is an anthroologist. He's the guy who wrote the presentation you may have seen The Machine is Us/ing Us. If you haven't seen that, then start here to watch it. It's an inspirational five minutes in which he explains the gist of web 2.0-y-ness and amply demonstrates just how entertaining presentations can be. But the point of this post is to alert you to a one hour presentation he's done on the anthropology of You Tube. In the presentaton he reviews not only why tubers "tube", but looks at how this phenomenon is at the intersection of some crucial trends in our society that are changing what "society" means. It's an hour long, so get a coffee - and be warned, you'll want to watch it again, and maybe again after that.