Michael Wesch
Michael Wesch | |
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Wesch in 2008 | |
| Born | Michael Lee Wesch Fairbury, Nebraska |
| Education | Kansas State University, University of Virginia |
| Occupation | anthropology professor |
| Years active | 2004-present |
| Employer | Kansas State University |
| Known for | Teaching methods, YouTube videos |
| Title | Professor of Cultural Anthropology |
| Predecessor | Harald Prins |
| Awards | 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities |
| Website | mediatedcultures |
| Part of a series on |
| Anthropology of nature, science, and technology |
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| Social and cultural anthropology |
Michael Lee Wesch is a professor of cultural anthropology and University Distinguished Teaching Scholar at Kansas State University. He is known for teaching with new media and for creating videos published on YouTube about digital technology, including "The Machine is Us/ing Us" (2007), and "An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube" (2008).