This is a video of a speech by Dr. Michael Wesch, an Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Digital Ethnography at Kansas State University. He was named 2008's US Professor of the Year, so I would say he is credible when he calls himself "a cultural anthropologist exploring the impact of new media on society and culture."
Fun fact: After two years studying the impact of writing on a remote indigenous culture in the rain forest of Papua New Guinea, he has turned his attention to the effects of social media and digital technology on global society. Digital Ethnography
In this speech at the Personal Democracy Forum held at Jazz Lincoln Center last summer, he discusses the anthropological introduction to Youtube:
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
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