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Media futurologist
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They see me, therefore I am. Selfies and the media ecosystem of lazy authorship
The Greek soccer player Samaras was in the penalty area, preparing for a corner kick, when he saw himself on camera. He took a look at the stadium screen and involuntarily began to rearrange his tumbled hair. Football? What football,… Read More ›
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The Sequence of Singularities
Cosmos and nanotechnologies as a medieval paradigm. Ethics of the Supercharacter. Postsingularity and Singularity-2. Why deep space exploration will never happen. – Why nanotechnologies are no different from medieval alchemy. – Burial as the birth of a human. – Human… Read More ›
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Review, Precis and Comments Re Andrey Miroshnichenko’s book Human as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship. By Robert K. Logan
Andrey Miroshnichenko, a media futurist and journalist, trained as a philologist, has written a very important book. I would go even further and say that a new star is born that students of media ecology, communications and digital media need… Read More ›
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Twitterature – enjoying literature in bits
The tweet as a quantum of content. 800 tweets can make up a novel, but not always. You still need a plot and an author. Writing is not an inherent skill. People read aloud back in the Middle Ages, and… Read More ›
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Books and longreading: a farewell to Prometheus
Book reading as fire usage: What is more important, the result or the process? Long reading was previously considered a way of transferring knowledge. But nowadays linear reading is becoming much shorter. The culture of information consumption is changing, along… Read More ›
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Myth about rubbish content on the Internet. How filters create a customized “The Daily Me” for everyone.
Sure, in terms of how information appears on the Internet, it could be compared with a rubbish dump. Everything gets in. But far from everything circulates and finds an end-user. In reality, nobody uses rubbish. There are no restrictions on… Read More ›
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I publish, therefore I am. Publishing as a duty
The tools that we believe make our lives easier simultaneously enslave us. The Internet is not just an opportunity, a gift of progress. It is an obligation that contemporaneity imposes upon us. When we go to the depth of the… Read More ›
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Phenomenological Postmetaneopositivism
(Prolegomena to the methodology of unscientific knowledge) 1. There is a reason underlying the expression “what underlies the facts.” Facts serve to cover up the essence of things. . 1.1. Facts take a lot of time without adding much sense…. Read More ›
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Engagement instead of broadcasting. Fast’n’fun instead of long text
The price humankind will pay for the successes of computer technology will turn out to be high. ICT will lead to a change in basic media: print platforms will be replaced by digital. The media change will call for a… Read More ›
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