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• Temporal shock. Media Ecology as Ecology Contrariwise – II

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

  

  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 ›

• Media Ecology as Ecology Contrariwise: Protecting Humans from the Digital Environment – I

  By Andrey Mir on November 7, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  The ecological approach to humans’ adaptation to the digital environment is rooted in the ideas of traditional ecology, yet it turns these ideas upside down. The main idea of a traditional environmental movement is to protect the environment from human… Read More ›

• Celebrating the re-launch of McLuhan’s Coach House in the 21st Century

  By Andrey Mir on October 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  For media ecologists, the Coach House has always been a place of force. On October 20, 2015, the McLuhans and Mcluhanists gathered in the Coach House at the University of Toronto to re-establish the “McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology”… Read More ›

• 3 filters of Internet hygiene: browser settings, the Viral Editor and the Filter Bubble

  By Andrey Mir on June 16, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Is the Internet really just a supplier of rubbish? One of the video presentations of American media thinker Clay Shirky is entitled It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure.[i] The problem is not the volume or quality of information, but… Read More ›

• Some notes after reading “Human as Media”, by Adam Thomlison

  By Andrey Mir on May 27, 2015 • ( 0 )

  Authors in the field of popular literature bear many of the same marks as the emancipated authors in Andrey Miroshnichenko’s “Human as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship.” Andrey’s book touches on a couple of concepts that I also looked at… Read More ›

• 10,5 prompts on how (and why) to use listicles for your blog

  By Andrey Mir on April 29, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  “Listicle” comes from “list + article” A listicle is a short article written in the form of a list. You have most likely seen them with titles like “10 Amazing Facts About Spider-Man” or “7 Of The Oldest Pieces Of… Read More ›

• “The Daily Me” now also means producing personal content

  By Andrey Mir on April 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The internet looks full of junk, but the news that people consume is in fact filtered very well. We visit certain websites, click certain links, and follow certain bloggers. In doing so, we convert our preferences into a virtual newspaper,… Read More ›

• Lenin and billions of man-hours of free time. From passivity of TV consumption to activity of social media contribution

  By Andrey Mir on January 23, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Television swallowed up millions of man-hours of free time by drawing people into a shared passive addiction. Prior to the age of TV, never before had such a large number of people done the same thing at the same time…. Read More ›

• Text? No longer

  By Andrey Mir on November 18, 2014 • ( 2 )

  

  Some thoughts on possible obsolescence in the Media Studies Triangle, Ontario Media Literacy Program “In 1988, Ontario became the first educational jurisdiction in the world to mandate media literacy as part of the English curriculum”, reports the “Media Education: Make… Read More ›

• Content marketing: How companies are turning into media. Case studies

  By Andrey Mir on November 16, 2014 • ( 1 )

  

  Brands are engaged in a media arms race. Creating relevant and valuable content is no longer an option, but a necessity. Traditional marketing boils down to managing brand information distribution, while content marketing strives to create conditions in which information… Read More ›