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YouTube as a Cultural Phenomenon

I spotted this on Freyburg.com, a presentation by Micheal Wesch at the Library of Congress about the anthropology of YouTube. 

Wesch created a (positively brilliant, imo) video entitled "The Machine is Us/ing Us" earlier this year that shot to the top of the YouTube charts; it serves as just one of loads of examples that he uses here to illustrate the similarities and differences between life online, on a webcam, and in real life. His students at Kansas State University assisted in a semester long research project, and this speech is the culmination of that work. 

It runs a little long for an online video, but the content is fascinating throughout its 55 min run time: 

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