That Video of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dancing Actually Has a Lot to Do With Higher Ed

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman member of Congress from New York, dances in 2010 in a video produced at Boston University while she was an undergraduate there. As an attempted gotcha, it was a flop. A video that circulated this week on Twitter, showing the newly minted U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez dancing on a rooftop during her college days, was meant to be a black mark of some sort. Instead, most of the internet found it charming.  As a history lesson in miniature, though, the video was more revealing — a reminder of an era when video mash-ups not only ruled the earth (and college campuses), but also struck both wonks and cultural critics as a big deal.