PBS FRONTLINE: DIGITAL NATION

I’ve written here numerous times about one of my favorite shows, Frontline, and this weeks episode is a good example. FYI, Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as American public television’s flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its debut on PBS as “the last best hope for broadcast documentaries,” FRONTLINE’s stature over 27 seasons is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.

Two years ago, FRONTLINE producer Rachel Dretzin made a film called “Growing up Online” which looked at the ways technology is rapidly transforming childhood for the “digital natives” who’ve known only a world of 24/7 connectivity and media, Facebook and web cams.

This week, Dretzin is back with a project that itself “grew up online,” a FRONTLINE first that began with a pioneering effort on the web, and has involved the audience in the making of this Tuesday night’s film the whole way through. It’s called “Digital Nation,” and it’s a wide-ranging journey through life on the virtual frontier–from the super-wired students of M.I.T. to a classroom of the future in the South Bronx; from “World of Warcraft” gamers to the actual Air Force pilots who, by day, guide drone missiles to their targets in Afghanistan, then come home at night for dinner.

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