{"id":222,"date":"2018-10-26T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/back-matter\/about-the-author\/"},"modified":"2018-11-02T17:14:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:14:22","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"back-matter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/back-matter\/about-the-author\/","title":{"raw":"About the Author","rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"raw":"<div id=\"about-the-author\" class=\"element element-container-single element-non-bodymatter element-type-about-author element-with-heading\">\r\n<div id=\"about-the-author-heading\" class=\"heading heading-with-title heading-without-image\">\r\n<div class=\"heading-contents\">\r\n<div class=\"title-subtitle-block title-block-without-element-number\"><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div id=\"about-the-author-text\" class=\"text\">\r\n<p class=\"first first-in-chapter first-full-width\">Dubbed \"the prophet of an education revolution\" by the <i>Kansas City Star<\/i>, Michael Wesch is internationally recognized as a leader in teaching innovation. The\u00a0<i>New\u00a0York\u00a0Times<\/i>\u00a0listed him as one of 10 professors in the nation whose courses \"mess with old models\" and added that \"they give students an experience that might change how they think, what they care about or even how they live their lives.\" Wesch is well-known for his digital work. His videos have been viewed over 20 million\u00a0times, translated in over 20 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. 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The\u00a0<i>New\u00a0York\u00a0Times<\/i>\u00a0listed him as one of 10 professors in the nation whose courses &#8220;mess with old models&#8221; and added that &#8220;they give students an experience that might change how they think, what they care about or even how they live their lives.&#8221; Wesch is well-known for his digital work. His videos have been viewed over 20 million\u00a0times, translated in over 20 languages, and are frequently featured at international film festivals and major academic conferences worldwide. Wesch has won several major awards for his work, including the U.S. Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation, the <i>Wired Magazine<\/i> Rave Award, and he was named an Emerging Explorer by <i>National Geographic<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-222\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Michael Wesch,  Kansas State University. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: New Prairie Press. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newprairiepress.org\/ebooks\/20\/\">https:\/\/newprairiepress.org\/ebooks\/20\/<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-NC-SA: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":311,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"cc\",\"description\":\"The Art of Being Human: A Textbook for Cultural Anthropology\",\"author\":\"Michael Wesch,  Kansas State University\",\"organization\":\"New Prairie Press\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/newprairiepress.org\/ebooks\/20\/\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by-nc-sa\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"back-matter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-222","back-matter","type-back-matter","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/back-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/222\/revisions\/404"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter\/222\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"back-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/back-matter-type?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-artofbeinghuman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}