News, music, TV, (media as a whole) are all experiencing the same crises of openness: Web Users Open the Gates - "Containers in which news had been packaged broke apart because the Internet could deliver content without the wrapping...The basic idea of what defines a news "consumer" morphs when consumers gain access to producers' tools, and can float between being a reader and an editor."
As I've stated (numerous times) before, educators need to watch what's happening in those industries that are facing the first impact of decentralization and shifted end-user control. Learners want to be more than learners - they want to co-create, engage, and teach - a blurring of the functional lines we have artificially created to enable "knowledge transfer". How these trends will impact our learning spaces and structures should be a key concern (or, at minimum, the subject of research - which so far is dismally lacking) for corporate trainers and public educators.