An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube

This is long, but it's actually pretty fantastic, if you're into academic studies of goofy internet phenom: An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, from the guy who did The Machine is Us/ing Us. [via]
7/31/08




Required Viewing: An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube: At the Library of Congress, anthropologist Michael Wesch recently presented a talk on the nature of YouTube: how memes spread, how users generate content, and a detailed history of some of YouTube’s greatest hits. ...
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