Over lunch one day an acquaintance of mine criticized my theory of response. “Not everyone writing on the Internet is doing so in order to get a response,” he said. “Take me, for example – I have a blog about… Read More ›
Emancipation of Authorship
The emancipation of authorship is the third emancipation of content (after the inventions of the Phonetic Script and the Printing Press)
How many authors have there been on Earth throughout all of history? No one knows the precise number, though if you really tried to come up with a figure, you’d probably conclude the following: across the entire history of humankind,… Read More ›
Review, Precis and Comments Re Andrey Miroshnichenko’s book Human as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship. By Robert K. Logan
Andrey Miroshnichenko, a media futurist and journalist, trained as a philologist, has written a very important book. I would go even further and say that a new star is born that students of media ecology, communications and digital media need… Read More ›
Twitterature – enjoying literature in bits
The tweet as a quantum of content. 800 tweets can make up a novel, but not always. You still need a plot and an author. Writing is not an inherent skill. People read aloud back in the Middle Ages, and… Read More ›
The myth about the Internet as a dump. How filters create a customized “The Daily Me” for everyone.
Sure, in terms of how information appears on the Internet, it could be compared with a rubbish dump. Everything gets in. But far from everything circulates and finds an end-user. In reality, nobody uses rubbish. There are no restrictions on… Read More ›
I publish, therefore I am. Publishing as a duty
The tools that we believe make our lives easier simultaneously enslave us. The Internet is not just an opportunity, a gift of progress. It is an obligation that contemporaneity imposes upon us. When we go to the depth of the… Read More ›
Engagement instead of broadcasting. Fast’n’fun instead of long text
The price humankind will pay for the successes of computer technology will turn out to be high. ICT will lead to a change in basic media: print platforms will be replaced by digital. The media change will call for a… Read More ›
“Human as media. The emancipation of authorship” is available on Amazon
“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 ›
Mediarite over Russia, or Sick of the Internet
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
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 ›
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