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Home / / Archives: July 2008

Context Collapse

by Prof Wesch
25
| Projects, Smatterings, YouTube
July 31, 2008

After watching my presentation on YouTube, several people have asked me for a specific definition of “context collapse.” Here is an excerpt taken from the middle of a paper called “YouTube and You: Experiences of Self-Awareness in the Context Collapse of the Recording Webcam” that I recently submitted for peer-review. (Skip to...
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The Little Glass Dot

by Prof Wesch
12
| Smatterings
July 30, 2008

Several people have requested the text for the little poem I recited toward the end of my Library of Congress presentation on YouTube. It is based on the famous words of Carl Sagan reflecting on an image of earth taken from a distance by Voyager 1 in 1990. In that...
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“An anthropological introduction to YouTube” video of Library of Congress presentation

by Prof Wesch
59
| Presentations, Projects, Smatterings, YouTube
July 29, 2008

The video of the presentation I gave at the Library of Congress last month is finally ready. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the...
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Presentation: A Portal to Media Literacy

by Prof Wesch
15
| Presentations
July 10, 2008

Presented at the University of Manitoba on June 17th 2008. Kind words about this presentation from Stephen’s Lighthouse:
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