Agentic Media

Communication-Centered Computing

Communication shapes how societies create, share, and preserve knowledge. Yet today’s digital tools remain organized around static formats that enforce rigid separations between creation and consumption, author and reader, expression and interpretation. These structural constraints fragment collaboration and limit how knowledge evolves over time.

What is Agentic Media?

Agentic Media reframes communication itself as a first-class object of computation. Rather than treating media as passive containers for finalized content, Agentic Media reframes media as intelligent, co-constructive partners that embed communicative intent, adapt to context, and participate in ongoing meaning-making. Communication becomes a dynamic, dialogic process—supported and shaped by the medium itself.

Diagram illustrating Agentic Media as a mediating structure between expression and understanding. On the left, a person expresses ideas through cross-modal inputs and in-process iterations. These inputs are organized, remembered, and transformed by Agentic Media. On the right, information is delivered in adaptive formats that support understanding in context. Bidirectional arrows indicate ongoing feedback between expression, media transformation, and contextual comprehension.

Agentic Media is not a tool, a format, or a single system. It is a conceptual framework for reasoning about communication when AI systems become persistent, interactive participants rather than passive carriers of content. At its core, Agentic Media foreground three shifts:

  • Communication as process, not artifact
  • Media as participants, not containers
  • Meaning constructed through interaction over time

For more information

Agentic Media: Reimagining the Future of Communication