Media & Communication

Netflix reports generative-AI workflows in roughly 300 titles. This analysis follows AI through editing, VFX and audio to examine what studios disclose, what viewers cannot infer, and the energy and water costs missing from project-level accounts.

Generative music tools such as ElevenLabs have collapsed the distance between the edit bay and the scoring stage. A non-composer can now build custom cinematic cues in minutes. But can taste, timing, and AI direction really compete with elite film composers?

Week of Aug. 3–7, 2026: Google pushes prompt-based video editing into Vids, Seedance 2.5 moves into AI-generated lessons, DaVinci Resolve 21.0.4 improves post workflows, and compact camera tools keep reshaping solo production.

Introduction Every generation of communicators faces a technology that promises to change everything. The printing press. Radio. Television. The internet. Social media. Each one rewired how information traveled, who controlled it, and what professional communication looked like. Each one also preserved something essential that the previous generation worried would be lost. I think about that history when I read about what AI is doing to journalism right now. The fear is under

Introduction Understanding why misinformation sticks — at the level of neuroscience and cognitive science — doesn't just explain the phenomenon. It points toward the responses that actually work. For anyone engaged in public affairs, strategic communication, education, or any field where truth-telling is a professional commitment, this is essential knowledge. The First Problem: Illusory Truth When a false belief gets corrected, the correction doesn't erase the original claim.

Introduction For most of my career in military public affairs, the information environment was shaped by human decisions — what to say, when to say it, and through which channels. The challenge was strategic: how do you communicate credibly in a complex, contested environment while maintaining institutional trust? That challenge hasn't gone away. It has multiplied. A growing body of peer-reviewed research and policy analysis confirms what many communicators have sensed for ye