HAVE YOU SEEN "AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION TO YOUTUBE"

A new video from Michael Wesch is a fascinating look at the
evolution of one of the most generally accepted social media
sites today, YouTube. Wesch is a cultural anthropologist and
media ecologist at Kansas State Univeristy exploring the impacts
of new media on human interaction. In 2007, he launched the
Digital Ethnography Working Group, a team of undergraduates
exploring human uses of digital technology, and created a short
video, Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us, which has now been
viewed over 3 million times on YouTube.

This latest video explores the use of YouTube from a cultural
and anthropological standpoint, focusing on user communities,
how the service affects the lives of amateur videographers, and
even how YouTube "stardom" can propel an individual or group
into notoriety in the "real world."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU