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The Symposium on the Impact of Digital Media is actually part of a series of events taking place simultaneously all over the Internet and involving participants from dozens of countries. These participants include some of the world’s leading scholars on the topics of identity, credibility, and civic engagement, as well as hands-on users of digital media of all ages who are residents of Second Life, as well as a community of practitioners in more than 200 leading universities and museums across the world.

The scholar group is currently engaged in a set of high-level scholarly online dialogs on our three topics — identity, credibility, and civic engagement — taking place now in a Google Group. The second group, all residents of Second Life, are talking part in this 12-day symposium. The third group, mainstream NMC members, will participate in an NMC online conference taking place on the “flat-web” at the end of this month.

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All three events are devoted to the same topics, which are informed by the NMC’s work with 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 symposium brings that dialog to the current residents of Second Life. We are most interested in your perspectives, and encourage you to add your voices to this mix by adding your thoughts about the impact of digital media to the dialog.