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• “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 ›

• 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 ›

• The Emancipation of Authorship. This picture explains everything

  By Andrey Mir on February 22, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Free content, the crisis of media, guerilla journalism, death of newspapers, content marketing, Arab Spring, social media boom, the Viral Editor, civic journalism, the end of the Gutenberg era, the shortening of the length of reading, the debates on the… Read More ›