Content Creation University
Auditing
MST-703 Master's core Year Seven Master's

The Future of Media

AI in the pipeline, emerging platforms, industry structure, where the creator economy is heading.

Lectures
7
Total runtime
4h 40m
Attendance minimum
2h 20m

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. How Digital Technologies Are Transforming the Media Industry Industry structure — what digitisation did to the media business, and who captures the value now Columbia Business School 1 Ivy League 30 min
  2. How Platforms Change Structure and Strategy with Marshall Van Alstyne The distribution layer — platform economics, network effects, and the inverted strategy playbook MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy 2 Peer institution 34 min
  3. Are We Entering the Age of Creativity with the Help of AI? | Cold Call AI enters the pipeline — the publisher's bargain, and whether a machine can be creative Harvard Business School 1 Ivy League 32 min
  4. Creativity in the Age of AI: Artist Perspectives on AI, Copyright, & Future of Work Rights and labour — consent, credit and compensation from the working artist's side Stanford HAI 2 Peer institution 49 min
  5. Creativity in the Age of AI: AI and the Future of the Creative Industry Where the creative industry is heading — governance, concentration, and institutional futures Stanford HAI 2 Peer institution 44 min
  6. Felix Oberholzer-Gee on Winning with AI Your strategy — productivity, judgement, and where durable advantage survives AI HBS Online 1 Ivy League 75 min
  7. Practicum · working creator I tried using AI. It scared me. Lecture 6's productivity-without-advantage argument and Lecture 1's account of a structural shift landing before the industry can respond, tested on one real task: a working creator with no professional coding background takes a problem he could not solve, ships a working solution in an afternoon with a language model, and reasons out loud about what that implies for everyone who makes things for a living Tom Scott P Practitioner 16 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Tom Scott — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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