communications and society

Artificial Intelligence: The Great Disruptor

The impact of artificially intelligent technologies on the automotive, healthcare and journalism industries are featured.

Streams of Connectedness & New Media: Fragmentation, Innovation and Democracy

Explores policies for the new media landscape and identifies two issues stakeholders should confront going forward: inclusion and content quality.

Teaching High Schoolers to Spot Fake News

A dispatch from the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy

Libraries: Building Community Resilience in Colorado

Unveils a set of opportunities and recommendations for building library partnerships statewide.

Identifying a Meaningful AI Future

The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence explored how to guide the trajectory of AI to a future with meaning, personal autonomy and human dignity.

Rethinking Institutions of Spectrum Management

There is rapid growth in spectrum demand. With the emergence of 5G, Internet of Things, and unmanned vehicles, spectrum policy issues have become more complex.

2017 Dialogue on Diplomacy and Technology

The Aspen Institute Communications & Society Program, in association with the University of Denver’s Josef Korbel School of International Studies, convened the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Diplomacy and Technology in Aspen, Colorado in the summer of 2017.

Learnings from the Knight Commission on Media, Trust and Democracy 2017

Together, the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, have convened a blue-ribbon commission on Trust, Media and Democracy.

2017 Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program Guest Scholars

The Guest Scholar Program began in 2001 as a scholarship initiative providing students of color the opportunity to develop their professional and academic careers in the field of media and technology policy. This year the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program announced three scholarship recipients.

Future of Libraries: 2017 in Review and 2018 Preview

This year the Aspen Institute Dialogue on Public Libraries convened and facilitated a successful series of dialogues and other conversations across the country to advance the work that public libraries are doing to address community challenges and to transform for the digital age.