When Words Aren’t Enough To Describe Web 2.0

Posted by Erdem OZKAN on 25 April, 2009

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Web 2.0 started as a revolution that uses the web to link people together. Web 2.0 means communicating, sharing, discussing and trading online in very useful ways never possible before. Web 2.0 simplifies collaboration and information exchange. But words aren’t enough to describe Web 2.0 .These extremely enjoyable videos describe Web 2.0 in the most creative ways.
Michael Wesch is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University and leads the Digital Ethnography Working Group. On Nov. 20, 2008, CASE and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching honored Wesch as Professor of the Year. Proffessor Wesch was trying to find a way to describe Web 2.0 for a paper that he was writing and found that words were not quite enough – instead he created the videos; “Web 2.0: The Machine is Us/ing Us” and “Information R/evolution”

by Michael Wesch