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• Journalism kills diversity to establish cohesion

  By Andrey Mir on January 6, 2014 • ( 0 )

  The mass media’s basic function is to eliminate the diversity of opinions. If there were no media, there would be as many personal pictures of the world as there are households. There would be unimaginable anarchy. Journalism amputates and, at… Read More ›

• “Human as media. The emancipation of authorship” is available on Amazon

  By Andrey Mir on January 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  “Over 6,000 years of literary civilisation, there have been perhaps 300 million authors: people capable of communicating their opinion beyond their own physical circles. Now, thanks to the Internet, in the historical blink of an eye, the number of authors… Read More ›

• Without Notice, Putin Dissolves a News Agency

  By Andrey Mir on January 5, 2014 • ( 0 )

  

  “…Andrei Miroshnichenko, an independent media critic here, said RIA Novosti and the other state news agency, Itar-Tass, had in effect competed for resources and influence. He said RIA Novosti had become the most respected news agency in the former Soviet… Read More ›

• Mediarite over Russia, or Sick of the Internet

  By Andrey Mir on December 12, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Who informed you about the meteorite and what did you say about the meteorite yourself? Why the free flow of information irritates the Russian blogosphere. Alexey Sinelnikov, my friend and a journalist, was on duty as an executive editor at… Read More ›

• Autogenesis of Supercharacter’s ethics

  By Andrey Mir on November 24, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Once the Superpersonality withstands the trial and refuses to get hooked on the eternal experience of getting superhigh, and therefore fully evolves as the Supercharacter, comes the question: what’s next? What entails self-realization for the Supercharacter, how does it make… Read More ›

• The Viral Editor as a distributed being of the Internet. The Manifesto of the Viral Editor

  By Andrey Mir on November 13, 2013 • ( 5 )

  The first “Artificial Intelligence” has emerged in the technological world, made up of real people: the Viral Editor of the Internet. It is currently building a new social reality, creating an alternative form of guerrilla journalism and begetting a new… Read More ›

• Why deep space exploration will never happen

  By Andrey Mir on October 27, 2013 • ( 4 )

  

  It is common knowledge that large volumes of sci-fi literature speculate at length and in detail on the subject of deep space exploration and interstellar travel. Well, the truth is that sci-fi lies. Deep space exploration is never going to… Read More ›

• Funny cats as a school of media-activity

  By Andrey Mir on August 13, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Cats have the force. Amusing cats are the infant school of civil activism. It is precisely via cats that the beginner media activist learns that well-chosen content provokes a reaction to personal activity way beyond their personal circle. Cats give… Read More ›

• New social environment: launching any probable interaction

  By Andrey Mir on July 4, 2013 • ( 0 )

  Now let’s imagine that everyone’s social network is built as inevitable realization of the probable coincidence and that all these personal networks are interconnected and interact. What evolves is a highly fluid environment with extremely strong gravitation, where people and… Read More ›

• Find a companion for whatever you wish. How the Internet makes probable coincidences inevitable ones.

  By Andrey Mir on June 17, 2013 • ( 0 )

  In early October 2012, the mother of seven-year-old Muscovite Seva Bezrukov posted a newspaper classified ad asking the owner of a DeLorean DMC-12 to get in touch. It was precisely this car that was used in “Back to the Future”,… Read More ›