Anthony J. Pennings, PhD

WRITINGS ON AI POLICY, DIGITAL ECONOMICS, ENERGY STRATEGIES, AND GLOBAL E-COMMERCE

Satellites for Global E-Finance and News

The post demonstrates how satellite technology, driven by the demands of globalizing finance and the need for rapid news dissemination, navigated regulatory hurdles and technological advancements to become a crucial component of international communication infrastructure by the late 1980s.

Determining Competitive Advantages for Tech Firms, Part 1

This post outlines the critical importance of tech firms establishing powerful competitive advantages, particularly economies of scale, network effects, and customer captivity. Drawing from “Curse of the Mogul,” it emphasizes that success in a market’s structure depends on establishing strong barriers to entry or achieving operational efficiencies, rather than relying solely on brands, deep pockets, talent, global reach, or first-mover status.

Visual Rhetoric Analysis of Social Media: YouTube Channels and Memes

What makes a successful YouTube channel? What meaning-making practices are used to make a channel interesting, or informative, or enjoyable? What story is being told, who is telling it, and how is it being told? How are people making money from it? These are some of the main questions we address in the final project […]

Digital Disruption in the Film Industry – Part 4: Generative AI for Video Synthesis

AI can now take text prompts and generate full-motion video, thanks to a new class of models called text-to-video generative AI. These models interpret natural language descriptions and produce short video clips with varying levels of realism and coherence. These instruction sets guide the AI’s generation and synthesis of “tokens” – data points that are combined into the visual sequence through various algorithmic processes.

Moving Economic and Financial Curves

I’ve previously written about how the historical development of “one price” and equillibrium changed political economy to economics due to the development of market graphs. In these visualizations that empowered a new economics, supply and demand curves intersect at a “market clearing” price where suppliers and buyers of a good or service are happy to […]

Markets and Prices: Pros, Cons

This post looks a how the notion of markets emerged and what is useful and determental about them. It discusses the underlying economic understanding of markets and includes several critiques of this term and our allegiance to them.

AI and Government: Concerns Shaped from Classic Public Administration Writings

Drawing on the classics of public administration, we can start to specify some constraints and goals for artificial intelligence (AI) and develop a “smart” but ethical government that is efficient but also responsive to public concerns.

AI Governance and the Public Management of Transportation

I’m doing an audit of my work on the topic of AI Governance of the Automatrix for publication. It’s my collection of posts on Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and the Automatrix or maybe “Robomatrix?” It is about the public management of the future transportation infrastructure as it becomes increasingly “smart” and electric. Pennings, A.J. (2025, […]

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    Professor at State University of New York (SUNY) Korea since 2016. Moved to Austin, Texas in August 2012 to join the Digital Media Management program at St. Edwards University. Spent the previous decade on the faculty at New York University teaching and researching information systems, digital economics, and strategic communications.

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