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Martin Gurri’s “The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium”
Martin Gurri’s “The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium” (2014 – 1st edition) has just been updated into the Trumpian Age. In my opinion, this is a must-read book for all who explore… Read More ›
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AI to Bypass Creativity. Will Robots Replace Journalists? (The Answer Is “Yes”). Part I: Intro
Journalism is a creative human practice. This, according to widespread opinion, makes it harder for robots to replicate. However, writing algorithms are already widely used in the news media to produce articles and thereby replace human journalists. In 2016, Wordsmith,… Read More ›
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Reading list for a young media thinker
What to read to be read. What to quote to be quoted. The list is always under upgrade. What is highly recommended is highlighted. Any good additions are welcome. Baudrillard, Jean. Simulations. New York: Semiotext(e), 1983. Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows:… Read More ›
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In Belarus, the military uses newspapers for the winter camouflage of an infantry combat vehicle
Here is another proof that newspapers are still in high demand. The news site “The Belorussian Military Newspaper. To the Glory of Motherland” (an official organ of the Ministry of Defense) published a report on a military exercise, along with… Read More ›
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Transcending Human Sensorium
People still act in virtual reality in a mostly natural way, as “physical beings”, which is obviously predefined by their (our) previous experience. Moreover, the content of the virtual reality is still the physical reality. This reflects McLuhanian ideas of… Read More ›
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Altering Human Sensorium
Artificial flavours, augmented senses, immersive media, augmented reality, virtual reality By shaping the media environment, media are able to tune the human sensorium according to their “bias”. Equipped with ideasthesia/synesthesia, the sensorium follows the environment. In its turn, thanks to… Read More ›
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End of story and history
Mysterious symbol “-30-”: how the end of newspaper story ends the history of newspapers The shutdown of two of the oldest Canadian newspapers on the last Friday of January, 2016, was accompanied by mystical coincidences. Not only were the newspapers… Read More ›
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“We’ve got radio, but not happiness”
“So we’ve got radio already, but we’re still waiting for happiness,” said Soviet satirist Ilya Ilf[i] of the technical progress of the 1930s. The well-known American comedian Louis C.K. expressed a similar sentiment eighty years later on Conan O’Brien’s late-night… Read More ›
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Media hygiene. Media Ecology as Ecology Contrariwise – III
The emancipation of authorship (Miroshnichenko, 2013) has led to an exponential growth in the number of information sources. Anyone who goes online is immediately inundated with huge amounts of information, more than a human being could previously absorb in a… Read More ›
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Temporal shock. Media Ecology as Ecology Contrariwise – II
The technological shock has to do with the mess in space and is accompanied by the temporal shock that has to do with the compression of time. In previous eras, each of which contained a number of successive generations, people… Read More ›
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