Fwd: [ANSS-L:10] FW: Excellent video: Web 2.0

Wade KOTTER

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Feb 9, 2007, 9:19:50 AM2/9/07

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I think many of you will be interested in this video.

Wade

>>> On 2/9/2007 at 7:05 AM, in message
<4AA263AB78B5394A8277...@MAINLIB12.lib.msu.edu>,
"Nicholson,
Shawn" <nich...@mail.lib.msu.edu> wrote:
> Dear ANSSers,
>
> This Youtube video by a cultural anthropology prof at Kansas State
offers
> some interesting food for thought...
>
> Cited on L Lessig's blog
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl=
>
> Regards,
> shawn

Michael Wesch

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Feb 9, 2007, 9:36:05 AM2/9/07

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Regarding this video, I'm in this google group if you all have any
questions. It has been quite the experiment in open-access publishing (of a
somewhat unique sort or course). It actually was not designed to go viral.
It is a draft for a video I was working on for a special web-based edition
of Visual Anthropology Review. Now I'm re-writing the whole article to talk
about aspects of the webscape and web-publishing that were revealed to me by
tracking the video's journey through the very webscape it attempts to
describe. I keep trying to push the limits with it, so I recently uploaded
it to Mojiti where people can add their own subtitles and animations. It
has been fascinating to watch it develop. It has been transcribed and
translated into 4 languages already (just 8 days after it was published),
and one of the transcriptions inspired a fantastic poem by Kevin Hodgson:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc5j36mc_28cn54gs&revision=_published

Several people are planning video responses and so things could get really
interesting soon. I even have a few of my own video responses floating
around in my head, but I don't have the full vision just yet.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Michael Wesch, PhD
Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology
Kansas State University
http://www-personal.ksu.edu/~mwesch
mwe...@ksu.edu
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Alexandre Enkerli

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Feb 10, 2007, 11:54:02 PM2/10/07

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Michael,

In terms of the groups involved, do you see a connection between Web
2.0 and the move toward Open Access?
Do you feel that because your video is being watched by a wide
diversity of people, its value in terms of academic discourse
decreases? (I expect the answer to be "no," given your membership in
this group. But who knows?)