2010 Keynote: Michael Wesch

Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Kansas State University
Symposium Theme: "Digital Scholarship and the Culture of Teaching and Learning"

Our keynote speaker this year is Dr. Michael Wesch, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University. Dubbed "the explainer" by Wired magazine, Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist exploring the effects of new media on society and culture. His videos on culture, technology, education, and information have been featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including a Wired Magazine Rave Award and the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis in Media Ecology. He was recently named an Emerging Explorer by National Geographic. He has also won several teaching awards, including the 2008 CASE/Carnegie U.S. Professor of the Year for Doctoral and Research Universities.

Here are several examples of Wesch's work:

Previous Keynote and Featured Speakers

2009

David Wiley, Ph.D.
Department of Instructional Psychology
Brigham Young University

danah boyd, Ph.D.
Microsoft Research New England
Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society

2008

Lawrence Lessig, J.D.
professor of law at Stanford Law School
founder, Center for Internet and Society

2007

Lee Rainie, M.A.
project director, Pew Internet and American Life Project

Bryan Alexander, Ph.D.
director, National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education

2006

Henry Jenkins III, Ph.D.
DeFlorz Professor of Humanities
director of MIT Comparative Media Studies