Digital Nation Douglas Rushkoff

Digital Nation did a wonderful job presenting information about how the world is changing and becoming more digitalized. Though it may be a good video, we need to know if its content is valid. Using media literacy, we will understand where the information is coming from and whether or not it should be trusted. In order to do this, we need to ask questions about the different things we are viewing. After doing this, we can see that this video is literate in some cases because it has good authorship, but not in other cases because their experiments aren’t as credible with the questions we ask.
Throughout the video there are many different experiments that are shown to emphasize their points. Rachel Dretzin and Douglas Rushkoff participate in many different experiments to see the effects of digitalization in the lives of many people today. They both are credible authors because one is the producer of PBS and the other is one of the greatest thinkers of digital age. Also, throughout the video, there are more credible authors of ideas given or experiments done, such as Professor Clifford Nass from Standfor University. Professor Nass wants to understand …show more content…
These experiments also drew me because of their reality. For example, a fifteen-year old young man in South Korea was so involved with video games where he would spend six to eight hours playing them. His mom was worried and resolved to have him put into a camp for kids with this addiction. It was neat to realize the reality of an addiction that media can be through a real life experience. It is hard to put down an experiment and say it’s not true because it was a live experience. Thus causing me not want anything close to an addiction like that or to even touch video