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• Reading list for a young media thinker

  By Andrey Mir on February 9, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  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 ›

• In Belarus, the military use newspapers for the winter camouflage of an infantry combat vehicle

  By Andrey Mir on February 8, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Transcending Human Sensorium

  By Andrey Mir on October 27, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Altering Human Sensorium

  By Andrey Mir on September 26, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Virtual reality technology is a dead-end of media evolution

  By Andrey Mir on September 17, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  Admiration and oblivion, the same prospects Google Glass are facing, are waiting ahead for virtual reality technology. This is not necessarily due to the difficulties in VR-content production (VR-consumers have had little to consume so far); it is the bulkiness… Read More ›

• Robo-journalism: the third threat

  By Andrey Mir on September 1, 2016 • ( 2 )

  

  A tie between cyber journalists and bio-journalists has already occurred. – Three threats to journalism. – News story on earthquake and tectonic shifts. – Generative journalism. – Two arguments about “robots’ incapability”. – Road map for robot journalism. – Forecasts… Read More ›

• Does the internet bring nationalism back?

  By Andrey Mir on August 9, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

    When media shift from broadcasting to engagement, other countries may have their own Trump and Brexit waiting ahead. Douglas Rushkoff published a great article The New Nationalism Of Brexit And Trump Is A Product Of The Digital Age. “TV… Read More ›

• End of story and history

  By Andrey Mir on June 8, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• “We’ve got radio, but not happiness”

  By Andrey Mir on May 27, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  “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 ›

• Media hygiene. Media Ecology as Ecology Contrariwise – III

  By Andrey Mir on March 25, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›