Digital Nation

Digital Nation
This article is about the media project. For the song by Hawkwind, see Take Me to Your Leader (Hawkwind album).

Digital Nation: Life On The Virtual Frontier is an interactive website and Frontline documentary, first aired February 2, 2010[1], from Producer and Director Rachel Dretzin [2] and correspondent Douglas Rushkoff.[3] The website features segments from the film in production, blogs from the production team, and user-generated video and audio about experiences with technology. The documentary's premise is "to examine the risks and possibilities, myths and realities presented by the new digital culture we all inhabit"[4] and "aims to capture life on the digital frontier and explore how the Web and digital media are changing the way we think, work, learn, and interact."[5] Digital Nation has partnered with the Verizon Foundation to create this multiplatform initiative and is projected to air nationally on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in early 2010.[6]

Website and participation

Recent features on the website include South Korea's professional online video gamers and stories gaming addiction,[7] schools that are integrating technology in the classroom and the military's new techniques for training soldiers and treating post-traumatic stress disorder.[8] Content is broken down by interest with subjects such as Living Faster, MIlitary, Relationships, and Virtual Worlds. [9]

The public is invited to participate in the making of Digital Nation by submitting personal stories about technology using video, photo collage, audio or animation, to the Your Digital Nation section of the website.[10] Digital Nation partnered with Smith Magazine to create a memoir series called "6 Words on Digital Life," in which people choose six words that describe their digital lives. [11]

Alongside promotion of user-generated content, the Digital Nation team will host internet safety workshops for teachers and parents, and create a curriculum for middle and high school students that will be available through the Digital Nation website, the Verizon Foundation's free educational website Thinkfinity.org, and WGBH-TV's Teachers' Domain. [6]

People

Digital Nation has interviewed prominent scholars and educators for the documentary, many of whom are featured on the website: Philip Rosedale, Marc Prensky, Mark Bauerlein, James Paul Gee, Henry Jenkins, Danah Boyd, Gloria Mark, Anne Collier, Albert "Skip" Rizzo, P. W. Singer, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and Dr. Jerald Block. [12]

References

  1. ^ "Digital Nation" - Frontline website
  2. ^ Magid, Larry (2009-03-27). "PBS Brings 'Digital Nation' to Web and TV - Connected Parent - Yahoo! Kids Parents". Kids.yahoo.com. http://kids.yahoo.com/parents/blog/1003/152--PBS+Brings+'Digital+Nation'+to+Web+and+TV. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 
  3. ^ "a documentary film company". Ark Media. 2009-03-24. http://www.ark-media.net/films/digitalnation.html. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 
  4. ^ [1][dead link]
  5. ^ [2][dead link]
  6. ^ a b "FRONTLINE Launches a Multiplatform Examination of Life in the Digital Age". Reuters. 2009-04-07. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS132446+07-Apr-2009+PRN20090407. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 
  7. ^ "PBS On The FRONTLINE Of Digital Nation - Digital Life Blog". InformationWeek. 2009-04-22. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/04/pbs_on_the_fron.html;jsessionid=1LVJHZJCWIMEDQE1GHPSKHWATMY32JVN. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 
  8. ^ "and the Digital Nation". Defense Tech. http://www.defensetech.org/archives/004858.html. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 
  9. ^ Wagner, Jennifer (2009-05-11). "Digital Nation: PBS Website on our Digital Lives". Connectwithyourteens.blogspot.com. http://connectwithyourteens.blogspot.com/2009/05/digital-nation-pbs-website-on-our.html. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 
  10. ^ Teja, Chris (2009-04-23). "Call for Submissions: Your Digital Nation | Editors' Blog". Smithmag.net. http://www.smithmag.net/obsessions/2009/04/23/call-for-submissions-your-digital-nation/. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 
  11. ^ "Larry Smith: Contest: "I Have Even Twittered During Sex" (Six Words on the Digital Life)". Huffingtonpost.com. 2009-09-18. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larry-smith/contest-i-have-even-twitt_b_291407.html. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 
  12. ^ "Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: PBS's Digital Nation: Another Great Resource For Teaching the New Media Literacies". Henryjenkins.org. http://henryjenkins.org/2009/09/pbss_digital_nation_another_gr.html. Retrieved 2009-10-09. 

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