Technology Takeover: Review of Frontline's Digital Nation

Frontline's Digital Nation appropriately used various cultures and backgrounds to portray what technology has come to be today.

There is no doubt that technology has advanced at a rapid pace in such a short amount of time. Digital Nation portrays the increased use of technology accurately by focusing on the younger generations throughout the world. The elementary schools in Korea that teach young children about Internet use allows the audience to realize what a transformation there has been in response to the Internet's importance in our lives.

The fact that there are signs around the school and a song taught around the Internet emphasize the differences from when we were in elementary school. The lessons taught seem to have moved from learning how to dial 911 in an emergency to how to properly use a computer for communication.

The other cases presented about schools and their increase in using technology related to the audience in compelling ways because it is affecting not only young students but those already in high school and college, and the way teachers present information to their classes.

The reporting in Digital Nation also looked at ways technology has affected other areas in our lives, such as relationships between a mother and son or finding a future spouse. It is important in a story like this to use examples that the viewers can relate to, but to keep it journalistic in the sense that one side is not completely overbearing the other.

Throughout the video, there was not one side that dominated the other. It did lean towards the fact that the overbearing use of technology has taken over our lives in some way, but aspects from the positive use of technology was also presented. Digital Nation allowed its viewers to think about the increase in new technology such as Facebook, Twitter, email, and text messaging.