"Looming Shifts in the Landscape: Interview Summaries"

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A companion piece to Andrew Blau's "The Future of Independent Media." "We interviewed an array of remarkable people in a wide variety of fields who could give insight into what may happen to the independent media landscape in the next 10 years....Over the course of the interviews, we saw a consistent preoccupation with five major areas that are ripe for big change. The first is technology, including both the digital tools for creating media and the infrastructure for delivering it. The second is the broader media world itself—what’s happening in the commercial sector and with the creation of new forms of media. The third concerns politics broadly defined, including social and cultural trends that may manifest themselves in politics. The forth is the inexorable shift toward a more global context to which everyone will need to adapt. And the final one focuses on changes stemming from the differences between generations, particularly with the arrival of the Millennial generation, just now coming out of college."