What are the major ways in which the technologies associated with computers and information networks and systems and the Internet have changed how humans think of themselves in relation to other humans? Changed the ideas we have of community? Changed the ways in which we interact with others for many purposes?
CASE: The YouTube Associations Living in a Age of YouTube
Please view this very nice (but long 53 minutes) presentation of a lecture Michael Wesch recently gave at the Library of Congress, "An Anthropological Introduction to You Tube" July 26, 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPAO-lZ4_hU
What does this suggest about how we form associations and how we view ourselves in an Age of YouTube?