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The Online Conference on the Impact of Digital Media was informed by the MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning, a two-year project in which the NMC is helping to explore the impact of digital media on our lives in a variety of ways, and encouraging dialog among experts, visionaries, and thought leaders from around the globe.
This unique event expanded that dialog beyond the project and reached out to an international audience.
Digital media, for this event, was interpreted broadly as anything from the traditional uses of the medium for creating and sharing rich content to the explosion of blogs for self expression, and increasingly, real time interpretation of news and breaking events. Also included is the notion of shared content via sites like Flickr, YouTube, and blip.tv, social sites like FaceBook and MySpace, and more powerful content and media search tools.
The singular focus of the Online Conference on the Impact of Digital Media, part of the NMC's Series of Online Conferences, was to consider how these media are changing our lives, and how they have impacted they ways we work, learn, collaborate, and even socialize.
Sessions will include discussions of the imapct of digital media as they apply to:
- Identity and self-image
- Credibility and the reliability of Information
- Civic and social involvement
- The arts, creativity, and design
- Social networking
- Pedagogical potentials and implications
Designed for both synchronous and asynchronous participants,
the event will be conducted entirely online using an innovative
conferencing environment provided by NMC distinguished partner LearningTimes. Attendees of NMC's online meetings enjoy a wide range of
features commonly associated with their traditional face-to-face
conferences, including interactive sessions from engaging
presenters, "hallway" conversations,
exhibitions, chats with exhibitors, chances to ask presenters
questions, and more.
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