Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us
August 24, 2007
The internet, inparticular the idea of “new media” has become an integral part of the lives of journalists, with a wide range of results. New media and its impact on journalists and media outlets as a whole has more than enough content to devote three blogs to entirely, so that is a subject that this blog won’t quite jump into with both feet just yet. We will, however, head in that direction by posting this video by professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University through which he tries to visualize the ideas and concepts of Web 2.0.
The video itself is cool enough, but what I really like is the way Dr. Wesch took a very intangible subject and by thinking outside of the box was able to use the web to make the idea of Web 2.0 tangible to a viewer.
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