Contemporary media (digital, social and mobile) is transforming the landscape of identity, education and employment. The centralised, top-down, mass media model on which most of our institutions are based is facing assaults from the emerging decentralised, bottom-up, networked, agile social  knowledge media. While old  power centres are being challenged, new ones are emerging: they are based on the systematic collection, analyse and exploitation of the mass of data produced in our daily life.

ePIC 2012, the 10th International ePortfolio and Identity conference, was a very exciting event where we had the great pleasure of welcoming participants from 24 countries debating the state of the art of ePortfolio and identity construction practice.