Episode Details
Back to Episodes
The Tech that Created Mass Media
Description
Jeff Jarvis, visiting professor at Stony Brook University’s School of Communication and Journalism, fellow at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, emeritus professor at CUNY's Newmark School of Journalism, co-hosts the podcasts "Intelligent Machines" and "AI Inside" and the author of Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad (Bloomsbury, 2026) tells the story of the Linotype machine that made mass media possible and how technology changes societies.
Photo: Linotype machines, Anthony Hordern and Sons department store, c. 1935, (AE Foster, public domain via Wikimedia Commons)
Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.