The PBS Frontline special,digital nationlife on the virtual frontier, sheds light on how information technology is changing society. The entire 90-minute show can be viewed online. (It was originally broadcast February, 2010.)
The chapters, listed below, are available at . To view individual chapters, move your mouse over the bottom of the video window and click on any of the nine chapters to jump directly to them.
Chapters:
  1. Distracted by Everything
  2. What's it Doing to Their Brains?
  3. South Korea's Gaming Craze
  4. Teaching With Technology
  5. The Dumbest Generation
  6. Relationships
  7. Virtual Worlds
  8. Can Virtual Experiences Change Us
  9. Where Are We Headed?
There is a wealth of supplemental information available on show’s website. I’ve created this guide to help locate that supplemental information.
Web exclusives and extended interviews to supplement the program:
  • Living Faster
  • Digital Natives
  • Rewiring Young Brains | What’s in a Turtle? | Digital Native Map | Online, All the Time| Gaming on Every Corner | What Makes a Digital Native? | Are They As Savvy as They Seem? | Music is the New Silence | Ethics for the Net Gen
  • Split Focus
  • Remembrance of Attention Spans Past | Mulitasking at M.I.T. | Future Shock and Information Overload | Multitasking Mentality| Kindling Under the Covers | Inbox: 500 New Messages | How Do Teens Do Homework Today? | The Skill of the Future
  • Where AreWe Headed?
  • Getting Ready for Robots| Your Brain on Google| Brave New World | Old School Internet | Human 2.0 | Watching Evolution at Work | The Most Wired Place on Earth | Life Sped Up | Losing Our Senses - Literally
  • Relationships
  • Identity
  • Going Digital at 83 | Bubbe and the Big Bird | Sarah’s Secret | Getting Help | There Goes Running for Office | Famous for 15 minutes | Internet Famous| The End of Privacy | The Secret Life of Autumn Edows | Busted | The Internet Saved Her Life | Living Their Lives Online
  • Parenting
  • The Password Battle | Hopes for My Daughter | A Facebook Fiasco | Follow-up with Evan Skinner | Advice for Parents
  • Predators & Bullies
  • One Boy’s Online Tragedy | The Best Defense is Common Sense | Kids are Smarter Than We Think | Stop Block and Tell | Predator Panic | Cyberbullying
  • Socializing
  • How Jonathan Met Kitten | Checking MySpace on the Front Lines | The Human Touch | Baby Boomers Facebooking | Your Kids on Social Media | The Rise of Social Networking | Fighting on MySpace
  • Waging War
  • A New Generation
  • The Army Experience Center | The Wizards of War | The Taliban in the Director’s Chair | War Porn | The Military Invented the Internet. What Next? | Playing America’s Army | Growing Pains
  • Immersion Training
  • Full Immersion | Soldier 2.0 | Stress Inoculation | Shooting at Pendleton | Leaving Camp Pendleton | Virtual Training
  • Remote-Control War
  • Taking Out the Taliban; Home for Dinner | In the Enemy’s Eyes
  • Virtual Worlds
  • Health & Healing
  • A Soldier’s Therapy Session | Through a Soldier’s Eyes | Coming Home | Doug’s Visit to Virtual Iraq | A Memory Trigger | A New Therapy for a New Generation | Virtual Recovery | Experience in Virtual Iraq | Getting on Board with VR
  • Internet Addicion
  • One Game Too Many | Mom vs. Computer | When Virtual Life is Better | A Self-Confessed Addict | Internet Rescue Camp | Game Addiction Counseling | Is It Really an Addiction
  • Second Lives
  • The Believer | Inside a Virtual Meeting | How To Use a Virtual Mirror | What is Second Life | Putting VR to Work | Our Virtual Future | The Human Behind the Avatar | The Avatar Effect
  • Video Games
  • Is World of Warcraft on Your Resume | Violent Games | Got Flow | The Gamer’s Edge | Outpost Gaming | StarCraft Training | Inside Pro-Videogaming | Die-Hard Gamers |
  • Learning
  • Concentration
  • Guilty Pleasures of the Internet | Saving Stillness | Old School New School | Preserving Focus | Virtual Education | Diving In | Attention Deficit | Countering the Urge to Multi-Task | A Haven From the Madness | Carving Out Quiet
  • Games That Teach
  • Stop Playing Around | Video Games 101 | Don’t Game Alone | The Supreme Court…Video Game? | Games That Teach | Educational Games Already at Play | Gaming School
  • Literacy
  • Friending Boo Radley | Hey Prof, I just txtd u my paper | Moby What?! | Reading More, Learning Less | Defenders of the Book | Do Books Have a Future? |
  • Schools
  • Shop Class Computing | The New Digital Divide | Netiquette | How Google Saved a School | The Class of the Future | The Tech FX | A New Generation of Teachers | Room for Improvement | How Video Games Can Help | School: There’s an App for That | School for Thought | Pressing Pause | Education 2.0
  • Interviews
  • Francoise LeGoues (virtual reality)
  • Clifford Naas (multi-tasking)
  • Noah Schatman (military)
  • Sherry Turkle (technology and self)
Compiled by Sharon Gray, . Updated 6.16.11.