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The Machine is Us/ing Us: The Machine Will Not Stop

Take a look at this fascinating video about web 2.0 from Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.
The machine is us.
The machine is using us.
The machine will not stop.

According to Professor Wesch we’ll need to rethink a few things including:
copyright
authorship
identity
ethics
aesthetics
rhetorics
governance
privacy
commerce
love
family
ourselves.
What might all this mean for school 2.0?
For the University of Kansas it clearly means a new course of study: Digital Ethnography

Josie Holford

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