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05 Feb, 2007

Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General| Read/Write Web| Social Web

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I came across this video thanks to Jeremy Hunsinger from Virgina Tech who posted it on Educause Connect.  You have to watch it!  It comes originally from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. 

Last week I posted an article in which I struggled to define my place with instructional technology and ultimately decided to focus on the power of the web.  This video cements my resolve to further investigate the power of the web, as well raises some great questions about how it really will change everything. 

He thoughtfully ends his short video by saying we need to rethink the following things:

  • copyright
  • authorship
  • identity
  • ethics
  • aesthetics
  • rhetorics
  • governance
  • privacy
  • commerce
  • love
  • family
  • ourselves

If this list doesn’t show how the web will change EVERYTHING, I don’t know what will. 

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About Jeff

I am an Academic Computing Expert at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.

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I am 20 years old, and a Sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. My hobbies involve going to the gym, spending time with friends, and messing around on my computer. I am a Computer Science major right now, but there is too much math for my liking, so I am considering a switch to the Journalism School specifically multimedia design).