What Else Is Happening?
A requirement of the Newhouse School’s “Trendspotting Digital Media” course is to research an area of cutting-edge technological development and make predictions about its application in media, ten or more years in the future. Students write essays on these predictions and publish them on medium.com to be shared with thinkers far and wide. Below is a list of links to some of the most compelling essays these Trendspotters have produced.
Big Trends in Media
“Is Privacy Threatening or Leading Innovation?”
Sharon Choi
“Future Technologies in Media Workplaces: How AI and New Technology Could Transform the Newsroom”
Claudia Articek
“Smaller Homes, Bigger Media”
Ruby Johnson
“Photography Isn’t About Photos Anymore”
Wasim Ahmad
Brands & Positioning
“Marketing in the Future”
(on non-brand marketing – replenishment, computer-mediated sales)
Lee Buttolph
“The Death of Mass-Marketing: Big Data and Sensors Bring Minority Report to Life”
Jonah Rappaport
“Pay-by-Touch Fingerprint Scanning Technology and Its Effect on Marketing & Online Retailers”
Brian Shantz
“Facial Recognition and Mood Detection in Media: How the Trend is Emerging in Advertising”
Josh Hymowitz
Entertainment
“Film Creation: Storytelling in Surround”
Neal J. Powless
“Drone Technology and the Future of Live Production”
Ayla Kress
“Disruption of Record Labels and the Market for Recorded Music”
Erik Stabnau
“Blockchain in the Music Industry”
Andy Horvath
“The Rise of vSports”
AJ Damiano
“Full Immersion into the World of Gaming”
Benjamin Gramley
