Last week, 30 people sat down for a chef-cooked dinner at a SoHo apartment. The room was full of media leaders, technology activists, and famous TikTok makers — people who usually never meet, and certainly never brainstorm together. Still, an urgent mission brought them together. The host of the evening…

I’ve been arguing with Google’s Bard for two days now, without a hint of success. At first I thought I might have been making a mistake with the prompts, but as it turns out, no amount of adjustment or clarification makes the results any better. I’m researching a paper, and…

Let me start by saying, I’m used to being called names. It doesn’t hurt my feelings a bit. So, when the comments section lit up last week after what I thought was a relatively innocuous article about Netflix taking a big risk by releasing (dumping) the whole season of HOC…

The thing about making television programs is, the folks who don’t do it always think it’s easy. After all, Seinfeld was nothing more than an NYC apartment set, some writers, and a few unknown actors. Of course, given the number of failed sitcoms, we know its a bit harder than…

Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz is a reporter who gets inside the stories she covers. She is controversial and hard-hitting. And even before she ran afoul of Elon Musk’s ever-changing “rules,” she was willing to say things in public that others only said behind closed doors. When Lorenz spoke to…

by Steven Rosenbaum, Sustainable Media Center Sherry Turkle is a philosopher who thinks about the nature of being human, at a time when technology is turning our social world upside down. In the academic world, she’s a professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT. Her TED…

Standing in front of a virtual room of high school students and tech leaders, Braxton Woodham, president of Unfinished Labs, said he sees the current state of social networks as bleak, but fixable. As he explained it, no one person is responsible for the current state of affairs. Quoting Grateful…

News, as we know it, is being reinvented every day, in ways large and small. Elon Musk swerves around, claiming one moment he’s empowering “citizen journalism” and that the “best coverage” of the World Cup can be found on Twitter. His thoughtless use of the concept of free speech runs…

Over the past week, I’ve led a series of conversations about the current state of media, and the increasing sense that media platforms are amplifying hate and misinformation. There are lots of theories about what has brought us here, but the one phrase that comes up with the most urgency…