Henry Jenkins, Director Comparative Media Studies Program am Massachusetts Institute of Technology beschreibt in diesem Artikell die Wechselwirkung von Medien, gesellschaftliche Veränderungen und bildungspolitischen Veränderungen
[...] The Wealth of Networks, Yochai Benkler, Grant McCracken's Plenitude
Chris Anderson (The Long Tail), Thomas W. Malone (The Future of Work), Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Many of these books share the insight that a networked culture is enabling a new form of bottom-up power, as diverse groups of dispersed people pool their expertise and confront problems that are much more complex than they could handle individually. They are able to do so because of the ways that new media platforms support the emergence of temporary social networks that exist only as long as they are needed to face specific challenges or respond to the immediate needs of their members.
The science-fiction writer and Internet activist Cory Doctorow has called such groups "adhocracies." An adhocracy is a form of social and political organization with few fixed structures or established relationships between players and with minimum hierarchy and maximum diversity.
Jenkins reflektiert wie diese Entwicklungen in die akademische Welt einbezogen werden:
How might media studies, the field most committed to mapping these changes as they affect modern life, be taught in a YouNiversity?

Er endet mit der Erkenntnis: "what works today will need to be rethought tomorrow as we deal with further shifts in the information landscape. That's the whole point of an adhocracy: It's built to tap current opportunities, but, like ice sculpture, it isn't made to last. The modern university should work not by defining fields of study but by removing obstacles so that knowledge can circulate and be reconfigured in new ways.