introduction to digital media studies

Sorry for posting this kinda late, but I have another suggested “reading.” If you have some free time before class tomorrow check this out (it’s about an hour long):

“An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube” is a lecture KSU professor Dr. Michael Wesch (creator of “The Machine is Us/ing Us”) presented to the Library of Congress in June 2008. It’s a great overview of the relationship between Youtube and a variety of emerging trends in today’s network culture.

To add to Aaron’s list:

This talks about memes, lolcats and Failblog specifically.

This is kind of just an example of how internet phenomena spread so quickly- how people use twitter and blogging to make things such a big deal.