
mediated culture
Teaching the Machine
Submitted by willow on Wed, 2008-02-20 16:04.
Google Image Labeler created a simple, addictive global game out of tagging images to improve image search results. If you're online, you're already playing a bigger game with each search, tag and click.
This video from Mike Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, is a provocative primer on how humans are teaching "the machine." Wondering if digital culture is calling us to rethink a few things? Just about everything.
Once you've seen the video, maybe there's cause for pause for a virtual walk down your own street on Google.
Also of interest: Wesch's "A Vision of Students Today" video.
















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