Periodical World

November 30, 2007

Michael Wesch Web 2.0 videos

Filed under: Periodicals/Reference Librarian — Deborah Malone, MLIS @ 11:26 pm
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Two of my favourite Web 2.0 videos are by Michael Wesch, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University — he’s a cultural anthropologist and media ecologist exploring the impact of new media on human interaction (from his web page).

The videos are creative, fun to watch and kind of give me chills . . . As a librarian and an archivist with an interest in cultural anthropology and social psychology I find it amazingly exciting to be part of the paradigm shift going on with the ways people describe, access, use and relate to information and each other.

So, here they are:

 

 Information R/evolution

 

The machine is us/ing us

November 13, 2007

The journal, Science

Through a combination of our print collection of Science, the JSTOR archive and a current online Science web subscription, Gleeson Library now provides access to the entire run of Science, a publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Links to this journal are easily located by a title search through the library’s Journal Finder

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