The Great Un-walling
The gatekeepers have changed. Traditional institutions controlled production and distribution; digital platforms increasingly control discovery and monetization. Creative access has expanded, but economic power hasn't disappeared.
The Medium Was Never the Message
The assumption that held media together for 40,000 years is no longer guaranteed. Paul Pfanner on what ended, what it means, and what the only surviving business actually is.
Distribuption
The word came first. The data followed. Nine years after Paul Pfanner coined Distribuption to describe what was coming for media, it has arrived — and the organizations that still don't have a name for it are already losing something they can't identify.