Jeff Jarvis

Owen JJ Stone, a technology commentator focused on AI and online safety; Jeff Jarvis, a journalist and media scholar; and Stacey Higginbotham, a connected-tech and infrastructure policy expert, examine Big Tech’s legal immunity, Apple’s fight with OpenAI, and AI’s race for dominance. They unpack data centers’ climate costs, child-safety rules, Amazon’s ad practices, Tesla’s Cybercab, and why calling AI conscious distracts from accountability.

Jeff Jarvis, journalist, author, and journalism educator, joins for a bracing conversation on press freedom, authoritarian retaliation, and the decline of mass media. He explores citizen-powered local journalism, election coverage beyond the horse race, and why artists cannot escape politics. Jarvis also challenges AI doom narratives, warning that human misuse, corporate power, and regulatory capture pose more immediate dangers.

Jeff Jarvis, author and media scholar who traces how print technology reshaped culture. He tells the tale of the linotype’s invention and its quirky inventors. He outlines how typesetting, presses, and business models scaled mass media. He connects printers’ lives, Mark Twain’s fortunes, and the arc from mechanized type to digital publishing.

Jeff Jarvis, media and technology historian and professor, riffs on Hot Type and the Linotype’s revolution. He traces how a 19th-century machine scaled publishing, reshaped writing, spawned the mass media business model, and even ruined Mark Twain’s finances. He connects past print panics to today’s AI debates and argues for taking control of technology rather than ceding it.

Jeff Jarvis, media professor and commentator, and Dan Froomkin, journalist and media critic, dissect mainstream coverage of a touted peace deal. They debate media credulity, access-driven reporting, market and credibility impacts, and the case for insurgent independent outlets. Short takes on political fallout, inequality, and why new media models are urgently needed.