{"id":16679,"date":"2024-11-23T13:37:59","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T12:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/23\/jeff-jarvis-elon-musks-investment-in-twitter-seemed-insane-but-it-gave-him-this-power\/"},"modified":"2024-11-23T13:37:59","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T12:37:59","slug":"jeff-jarvis-elon-musks-investment-in-twitter-seemed-insane-but-it-gave-him-this-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/23\/jeff-jarvis-elon-musks-investment-in-twitter-seemed-insane-but-it-gave-him-this-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Jarvis: \u2018Elon Musk\u2019s investment in Twitter seemed insane, but it gave him this power\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The US media pundit on the dangers of overregulation online, why he\u2019s more frightened of the tech bros than AI itself, and how to reclaim the web by getting rid of the geeks<\/p>\n

Jeff Jarvis was born in 1954 and studied journalism at Illinois\u2019s Northwestern University. He worked as a TV critic and created the magazine Entertainment Weekly<\/em>, later leading the online arm of US media company Advance Publications. Since 2001, he has been blogging at Buzzmachine.com<\/a> and in 2005 he became an associate professor at City University of New York\u2019s graduate school of journalism, directing its new media programme before retiring last year. Jarvis, who lives in New York, is the co-host of the podcasts This Week in Google<\/em> and AI Inside<\/em>.<\/p>\n

What made you want to write <\/strong>your new book, <\/strong>The Web We Weave<\/strong><\/em>?
<\/strong>My glib answer is that somebody has to defend the freedoms of the internet because I fear they\u2019re under attack. It\u2019s important to say that I\u2019m not defending the corporations or current proprietors of the internet, but I do think that moral panic over the net will lead to regulation that will affect freedoms for all. This turned into more of a critique of media\u2019s coverage than I had predicted.<\/p>\n

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\nThe US media pundit on the dangers of overregulation online, why he\u2019s more frightened of the tech bros than AI itself, and how to reclaim the web by getting rid of the geeks
\nJeff Jarvis was born in 1954 and studied journalism at Illinois\u2019s Northwestern University. He worked as a TV critic and created the magazine Entertainment Weekly, later leading the online arm of US media company Advance Publications. Since 2001, he has been blogging at Buzzmachine.com and in 2005 he became an associate professor at City University of New York\u2019s graduate school of journalism, directing its new media programme before retiring last year. Jarvis, who lives in New York, is the co-host of the podcasts This Week in Google and AI Inside.
\nWhat made you want to write your new book, The Web We Weave?My glib answer is that somebody has to defend the freedoms of the internet because I fear they\u2019re under attack. It\u2019s important to say that I\u2019m not defending the corporations or current proprietors of the internet, but I do think that moral panic over the net will lead to regulation that will affect freedoms for all. This turned into more of a critique of media\u2019s coverage than I had predicted. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The US media pundit on the dangers of overregulation online, why he\u2019s more frightened of the tech bros than AI itself, and how to reclaim the web by getting rid of the geeks Jeff Jarvis was born in 1954 and studied journalism at Illinois\u2019s Northwestern University. He worked as a TV critic and created the …<\/p>\n

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