The internet intellectual

Evgeny Morozov profiles Jeff Jarvis, and presents criticism:

Jarvis’s sloppy discussion of privacy is emblematic of his overall approach, and so it merits a closer look. There are certainly strong arguments to be made about privacy’s often perverse impact on national security or economic growth or the richness of public life, and many of those arguments have already been made. Instead of familiarizing himself with the work of leading contemporary critics of the unthinking celebration of privacy—scholars such as Amitai Etzioni, Richard A. Posner, Richard Wasserstrom, and others—Jarvis prefers to arrive at many of their conclusions on his own, losing much intellectual sophistication along the way, not least by failing to address any of the counterarguments that have been raised in response to their work. 

(Video: "Renowned bloggers Tina Brown, Jeff Jarvis and Andrew Sullivan debate the implications of society's changing views on privacy in the digital age, from teens on Facebook to Brett Favre's sexting incident." That's the caption on the video, although I would present a correction in that Tina Brown isn't really a blogger. She does run a successful website, but it's not a blog.)