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Bytes for Mar 5

March 5, 2010

Daily updates on what I’m reading

The net generation, unplugged | The Economist – CLIP: "Michael Wesch, who pioneered the use of new media in his cultural anthropology classes at Kansas State University, is also sceptical, saying that many of his incoming students have only a superficial familiarity with the digital tools that they use regularly, [...]

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A Vision of Students (in the US) Today – Digital Ethnography

October 18, 2007

A new video from Mike Wesch, who had earlier made the fab video, The Machine is Us/ing Us. Mike Wesch’s videos explore mediated culture, seeking to merge the ideas of Media Ecology and Cultural Anthropology.

In a blog post describing this video, Prof Wesch says:
It began as a brainstorming exercise, thinking about how students learn, [...]

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