Digital Nation

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.

[6] 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.

[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] Digital Nation has interviewed prominent scholars and educators for the documentary, many of whom are featured on the website: Mark Bauerlein, Dr. Jerald Block, danah boyd, Anne Collier, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, James Paul Gee, Henry Jenkins, Francoise LeGoues, Gloria Mark, Dr. Clifford Nass, Marc Prensky, Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Philip Rosedale, Noah Shachtman, P. W. Singer and Dr. Sherry Turkle.