About

Hi, Andrey Mir is here. I am a media ecologist with a background in journalism.

My latest book, Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polarization (2020), explores the political-economic roots of post-truth and polarization in the news media. It is on Amazon:

My book Human as media. The emancipation of authorship (2014) received some kind words from Douglas Rushkoff, Robert Logan, Martin Gurri and other prominent thinkers. Also available on Amazon:

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I worked as an editor in the business press in the 1990-2000s, then wrote the book “When newspapers die” (2010, in Russian) and left the sport. Since then, I have specialized as a media researcher and consultant. I am a Fulbright-Kennan scholar (Wilson Center in Washington, DC, 2012-13), a member of the Media Ecology Association and so on and so forth. Currently, I study and teach communication and culture at York University, Toronto, with a focus on media ecology, new media and fake news. My first dissertation, in journalism and linguistics, focused on the semantics of the Soviet media and propaganda (1996). My books, talks and publications cover a range of topics related to media in the areas of linguistics, politics, PR, corporate communication, journalism, transhumanism and the Singularity.

This blog is about old and new media and the future of humankind.

Find me on Facebook; on Twitter – @Andrey4Mir.

Here are some reviews of my books and my media appearances:

And finally, here is my photo album with some memorable events and encounters.

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  1. How Russia Is Censoring Reporting On Sochi Olympics Controversies | We Report
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  3. Media Politics in Perspective | How Russia Is Censoring Reporting On Sochi Olympics Controversies
  4. The Launch of the New McLuhan Program, Oct. 20, 2015: A Review by Andrey Mir | McLuhan Galaxy
  5. Philanthropy funding of journalism: a noble corruption – Human as Media
  6. Philanthropy funding of journalism: noble corruption – Human as Media
  7. Postjournalism: Subjective modality in the guise of objective modality – Human as Media
  8. Rage on social media: signaling intensities instead of feelings – Human as Media
  9. The eternal failure of selling news – Human as Media
  10. How both old and new media polarise society for profit (or survival) – Human as Media
  11. The hamsterization of journalism and cannibalism of news teasers – Human as Media
  12. (Almost) Everything You Need to Know About Media
  13. The Mind Map of Media Ecology – Human as Media

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