The flawed copyright system has an impact on creative economy. Copyright's influence on digital opportunities in the UK's creative economy provided impetus for broad scale initiatives for improvement. Audience expectations have changed dramatically.

The media sector as it existed in the 20th century was an aberration, an accident at the intersection of economics & technology. That accident is now being cleared by the inexorable forces of creative destruction and a new one is rising in its place.

The history of changes to the intellectual property status of research and scholarship under the rubric of open science.

The mediaX funded research project embedding a social agent with short meaningful conversations into a technology instructional device using a creative experience to increase student engagement and learning.

The horizons of media disruptions and content delivery that Generation Z will accelerate as they become active content creators and participants in new media.

The urgency of communicating science in a manner that the public can appreciate and the importance of connecting creative content developers with scientists as primary sources.

An update on a mediaX funded research project targeting an automated, extensible markup language to streamline article production for both authors and publishers in order to improve text-intense scholarship.

Discussing the mediaX funded research project of Bimodal learning models combining simulation with physical research conducted online using remote laboratories for biology.

Discussing the mediaX funded research project of critical thinking pedagogies and active engagement for the new generation history textbook as a student-constructed and edited on-demand, collaborative collection of historical narratives.

As consumers interact with each other & with products through digital and mobile technologies, they have come to expect access to relevant information and seamless experiences. How will tomorrow’s smart robots enhance the audience experience?