YouTube and Interaction: A Special Wrap Event

Published: May 29, 2009 @ 6:41 am
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Anthropologist Michael Wesch, a professor at Kansas State University, addressed a packed room at the home of Peter Guber for a special Wrap event on Thursday night. Wesch discussed his research on YouTube and how it has affected social behavior and interaction through video-enabled web.

 

The crowd included entertainment industry insiders including Jon Feltheimer of Lionsgate, writer-producer Marshall Herskovitz, Lifetime CEO Andrea Wong, Relativity CEO Ryan Kavanaugh, MPAA chairman Dan Glickman and YouTube founder and CEO Chad Hurley.

 

Read about his lecture here and watch a video from his presentation here.

 

The event was sponsored by YouTube-Google and OTX Research.

 

(Photographs by Jonathan Alcorn)

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