Digitopia

Not utopia, where everything is awesome. Not dystopia, where everything is a nightmare. Digitopia. Where everything is... what?

Digitopia is whatever we make it.

So what will we make it? How should we live it?

Should we hack everything in sight, making heroes of those who share the most data, like Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Anonymous and Kim Dot-Com?

Or should we support the RIAA and DMCA, which clamp down on anything and anyone that challenges copyright, ownership, authorship, intellectual property and other vital principles of the democratic free market? (And that includes you, mp4 and bittorrent pirate that you almost certainly are!)

Should we emphasize openness - and sharing yourself all the time on your social networks - because the more transparent we all are the more honest we'll have to be?

Or should we emphasize security - don't touch that dial! Don't share that info! Don't let anyone see! - because your data might come back to haunt you? (And sooner than you think!)

Should we look forward to open governments using open data and the rise of digitally-empowered civil society, or should we fear our governments reading all our email (they already do!) and the rise of the surveillance society?

Is studying the same as it used to be now that you've got Google on your iPhone? And what is plagiarism in a cut and paste world?

At The Media League we're looking to you, the first fully digital generation, to map the future of our everchanging online universe and to start to answer these challenging questions. Because the rules are always changing. Hell, more and more there are no rules!

And so that is your Game Challenge: tell us about the rules as you live them. Show us where digital fun bumps up against digital scary, where digital smart bumps up against digital dumb, where digital desire bumps up against digital control. What does it mean to be a digital citizen, to live life to the fullest online, but to do so without hurting others, or yourself? Is it even possible?

Welcome to Digitopia. Tell us what you see... in images, in music, in poems, in whatever medium you call home.