Digital Nation
Feb. 3rd, 2010 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiPBS ran a highly-flawed, but intriguing, Frontline last night called Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier. There are all sorts of problems with it (You can watch the entire special on the website, and the site also offers a lot of supplemental material that greatly enhanced the stuff that aired on TV. If you've got a few hours to spend on it, there's fascinating stuff there, as long as you can handle the alarmist attitudes underlying the filmmakers' approach.
Henry Jenkins was not amused. He has a great post on his reaction to it here.
ETA: Cathy Davidson also has a good takedown of it here.
I'll be leading a roundtable discussion of it at work next week; for all the flaws of the movie, I think the act of examining how students interact with technology is a valuable one, and making sure that some of my more changephobic colleagues are aware of the problems with the documentary is also important.
Henry Jenkins was not amused. He has a great post on his reaction to it here.
ETA: Cathy Davidson also has a good takedown of it here.
I'll be leading a roundtable discussion of it at work next week; for all the flaws of the movie, I think the act of examining how students interact with technology is a valuable one, and making sure that some of my more changephobic colleagues are aware of the problems with the documentary is also important.