“An anthropological introduction to YouTube”
Written on August 7, 2008
It’s a little off topic, but I really enjoyed this video by Dr. Michael Wesch, which was recently presented at the Library of Congress (and a book does make a cameo appearance):
One wonderful moment is when a student holds a mirror up to her webcam, saying “this is what I’m talking to.”
See also Wesch’s Digital Ethnography blog for further discussion of concepts such as “aesthetic arrest” and “context collapse.”
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