What are we to make of students who film violence rather than intervene? What are we to make of educational institutions unprepared for viral videos about campus life? Reflections on the four shootings this past weekend at Rutgers, drawing largely on videos posted to YouTube of live action.
Students online as announcers, cultural critics, practicing artists. What is the subject? The self alone. The evolving economy of the self-brand, self-marketed on the web in the jobless present. To understand our students' online actions, we have to confront a present without work.