Disruption is when businesses are turned upside down, and the old way of doing things no longer works. It’s what Uber has done to the taxi industry, it’s what the internet did to the music industry and it’s happening at a ferocious pace.
Jeff Cole
Director of the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism
Facebook, YouTube, Apple, Amazon and Netflix have changed entertainment and media in ways that few were able to predict in the early days of the internet. For consumers, the easy accessibility of movies, television shows, news and original content has led to new ways of consuming media and greater expectations for on-demand entertainment. At the same time, these changes have impacted every aspect of the careers of creatives, including the availability of work opportunities, the right to earn fair wages and the challenges in protecting their images and rights.
In our first two-part episode, “Disruption in Entertainment, Part 1: Threats and Opportunities,” host and National Executive Director David White discusses the disruptions in entertainment taking place today and what those changes mean for both consumers and entertainers. Joining him in the studio are Jeff Cole, director of the Center for the Digital Future at the USC Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism and founder-director of the World Internet Project, and Sanjay Sharma, co-founder and CEO of Marginal MediaWorks. Together, White, Cole and Sharma discuss these technological giants’ influence on the entertainment industry and the resulting impact on traditional studios, media companies, and artists and performers in the years to come.
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