Events

The Media & Technology Program organizes and co-sponsors conferences, speaker events, seminars, and social mixers throughout the year for students, alumni, academics, and with affiliate programs.

MMA officers with Prof. Knee and Prof. Sarvary at the spring alumni cocktail reception

Mike Fries '88, CEO of Liberty Global, speaks with Prof. Jonathan Knee at Reunion 2018.

In Summer 2018, Columbia hosted the 11th edition of the Workshop on the Economics of Advertising and Marketing

The Bernstein Center hosted Arianna Huffington in conversation with Professor Gita Johar for The 2018 Klion Forum.

Research Seminars

NYC Media Seminar Series: Linking economists working on media topics in the greater New York area by providing a regular forum for discussion.

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Faculty Voices

Jonathan Knee's new book The Platform Delusion has just been released by Penguin Random House.

"The Platform Delusion demystifies the success of the biggest digital companies in sectors from retail to media to software to hardware, offering readers what those companies don’t want everyone else to know."...

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Featured Publication

Miklos Sarvary and Hanna Halaburda have just published the second edition of Beyond Bitcoin: The Economics of Digital Currencies.

The second edition offers a deep and up-to-date analysis of the economic forces related to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies; provides an in-depth, rigorous analysis of what can be effectively decentralized and how this decentralization will work, and features a fully updated chapter on cryptocurrencies and new chapters on smart contracts and enterprise blockchains.