August 6, 2009 11:57 AM
Mike Wesch on the Future of Communication
Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor
Michael Wesch, a 2009 National Geographic Emerging Explorer and assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University, has produced astonishing video shorts on communication, education, and culture in our increasingly wireless world. His radically innovative teaching strategies led CASE and the Carnegie Foundation to name him 2008's Outstanding Doctoral and Research Universities Professor of the Year. One of his videos--The Machine is Us/ing Us--has been viewed more than ten million times in its several versions, and eclipsed even the most popular Super Bowl commercials to remain the most watched video on YouTube before, during, and for weeks after the 2007 Super Bowl.
Wired magazine simply dubbed him "The Explainer."
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