Michael Wesch’s talk about being Knowledge-able and creating an identity through media reminds me a lot of what I have learned during my time as a Digital Studies Major. In Intro to Digital Studies, we were taught how to collaborate with each other in both the classroom and online. So far, we are doing the same with Digital Storytelling right now by  sharing our work and helping each other on our hub that is #ds106. His talk also meshes really well with Gardner Campbell’s article and video about creating your online infrastructure and connecting with others online.  Wesch gives us an example with a video that shows us the media’s portrayal of women and how they should look. Another example is when he talks about how people spread various information through hyperlinks and  creating content together as a community. Creating an identity for media and online use in important for the the Digital Age. If you don’t contribute to a community than you won’t have much of a presence online.

Wesch briefly mentions in the video that there are other major skills that people involved with online communities should have now, besides being able to read and write.   I strongly agree with him that having  video editing skills, or editing skills in general, could help a person have some sort of presence online. Further evidence of this is shown today by bloggers and many online celebrities from YouTube. They upload videos daily and gain many fans to back up their presence and once you have a presence you have to maintain it. Once you have your presence you can’t just disappear for a six months, come back, and expect you presence is still as strong as it use to be. It’s really important that you contribute. Like Wesch stated in the video, contributing can help technology advance faster  and we do that by putting our heads together, throwing ideas at each other until we find some sort of technological revelation.