Geschke Lecture Series: Ken Auletta & Robert Williams, Winners And Losers Along The Information Superhighway

Ken Auletta and Robert Williams sit down for a conversation centered on how the dynamics of digital technology and consumer demand continue to upend the American communications industry. The pair will examine the impact of dominant social media companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook, the decline and fracturing of print and broadcast journalism and the ways that streaming technology has revolutionized how we watch television.    

Ken Auletta has written about the communications industry for The New Yorker magazine since 1992. He is the author of 12 books, including five national bestsellers. Auletta is credited with creating the term 'information superhighway” and has spent the last three decades analyzing and documenting the work of these broadcast and digital giants, the people who lead them and how they impact all levels of society. 

Robert Williams is senior advisor for television at Crossix Solutions, the cofounder of Medialytic and former president and CEO of National Public Broadcasting and National Public Media. On Nantucket, he is the director of the Nantucket Pond Coalition, an organization he founded in 2014 and also serves as the President of the Hummock Pond Civic Association.

 The program is free admission, but registration is required.