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Watch Douglas Rushkoff’s ‘Digital Nation’ now in this post

Digital Nation – a PBS Frontline documentary I’ve been working on for, gosh, two years now – is finally airing this coming Tuesday evening, Feb 2, at 9pm on pretty much all PBS stations in US. (I know: that’s during the Lost premiere that even Obama feared going up against. But you can Tivo Lost, watch us live, and watch Lost after without the commercials.) For those of you outside the viewing area or without TV’s, you can watch the whole thing anytime from broadcast onwards by going to http://pbsdigitalnation.org.

The entire doc is now availble to watch below. It’s very good (if there is a problem with Part 5, goto the site for Digital Nation, and select part 5 in the included player):

Meanwhile, I’m happy to announce that Frontline has agreed to let me host a series of Roundtable discussions following the broadcast. One per month, with invited guests and running commentary from you. (I’m shooting for something like the Talmudic format Steven Johnson used for Feed magazine – still the best threaded dialogues I can remember happening online between a central conversation and the general public. With any luck, these Roundtables will be the next main thing I’m doing – and I really do need quality conversation to happen there to keep it alive.

The above clip – Patrick Stewart on Twitter, the iPhone, and his passion for gaming – is not in the show. But it is an example of the kind of conversations and guests we’ll be having in the Roundtables – both by text and video.

Doug has produced two other great documentaries, The Persuaders and The Merchants of Cool, which you can also watch free (follow links).

Ken Eakins

(Source: Rushkoff’s Site)

Douglas Rushkoff has also appeared on our shows, Open Source Reality with Douglas Rushkoff, and What Happened to the CounterCulture, check them out.

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