{"product_id":"9798765123959","title":"Hot Type The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHot Type\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJeff Jarvis\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Books \u0026amp; Reading\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eHot Type \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eis the epic story of the magnificent 19th-century machine that rendered Gutenberg's movable type obsolete and opened the portal to the long century of mass media. The Linotype mechanized the 400-year-old process of setting type one laborious letter at a time, and thus ignited an explosion of newspaper, book, and magazine empires. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a tale populated with wondrous characters: tragic inventors, malign media moguls, hand-typesetters called the Swifts who turned their craft into a spectator sport, and authors and journalists who chronicled the turmoil of their time, their every word molded into metal type by what some viewed as a thinking machine. This revolution in media technology helped to propel Mark Twain into literary celebrity, but it also cost him his fortune – as well as his sense of humor and optimism. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe era of the Linotype was a bridge between Twain's Gilded Age with its tycoons of steam, steel, and wire and today's Gilded Age with its barons of bits and AI.   Its history provides an opportunity to reflect on how technology changes culture just as new technologies – the internet and artificial intelligence –manufacture their endless streams of words today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJeff Jarvis \u003c\/b\u003eis the Emeritus Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at the City University of New York's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism, a visiting professor at Stony Brook University, and a fellow at Montclair State University's Center for Cooperative Media. He was the creator and founding managing editor of \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, TV critic for \u003ci\u003eTV Guide\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, Sunday editor of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Daily News\u003c\/i\u003e, a media columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, and president and creative director of Advance.net. He blogs at Buzzmachine.com and cohosts the podcasts \u003ci\u003eAI Inside\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIntelligent Machines\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBreaking the News\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of six books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Gutenberg Parenthesis\u003c\/i\u003e (2023) and \u003ci\u003eMagazine\u003c\/i\u003e (2023), both published by Bloomsbury.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 August 2026\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9798765123959\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e384\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20.0\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669641855116,"sku":"9798765123959","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_1bc7529f-c405-4944-9632-99bce39f8ac5.jpg?v=1785203159","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9798765123959","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}