Anthropology 295: Anthropology of Media

An interesting bit of news caught my attention last week. CNN reported an image of an old barrack used by the United States military in Coronado, CA which is shaped like a swastika. More importantly, the person who came across this aerial image used Google Earth. I want to comment the importance of this program in our culture; it seems that more and more news outlets are utilizing it and it is regarded as a "go to source" by weather forecasters as well as newscasters. The programs in itself is a form of media, and I find it interesting that other forms of media (i.e. news channels) place such a heavy emphasis on it. You may have heard about this already and while I meant to make a post about it last week, I needed to use the program and see for myself. Rather than linking you the image on someone else's web page, here is a link that I "ganked" directly from the Google Earth program.

http://picasaweb.google.com/dominick.a.villano/ANTH295/photo#5116473396718643922