As media evolution is driven by the technological imperative (media seeking better performance), AI may not need agency at all. Hello, media determinists. This blog was paused for a while because I was busy finishing my book The technological imperative. Why… Read More ›
As The Washington Post moved to cut about one-third of its staff, including roughly 300 of its 800 journalists, some critics turned on its owner, Jeff Bezos: given his massive fortune, why not simply absorb the losses and keep funding the paper… Read More ›
A chapter from The Digital Reversal. Thread-Saga of Media Evolution. With the internet, news reliability might have degraded, but overall, people became better informed. This flipped the value in content production: news stopped being a commodity and became bait to attract… Read More ›
The latest book by media theorist Andrey Mir raises hypotheses that are as lucid as they are unsettling about the future of literate culture and the human race itself. By Eugenio Palopoli. This is a review of The Digital Reversal… Read More ›
The future of the book is the blurb, said Marshall McLuhan. As the future arrives, this book is written in tweets—1,295 of them. Structured in thread-chapters, they explore and explain what media evolution has done to us. (An excerpt from… Read More ›
In the early 2010s, old institutions transitioned to Web 2.0 and adopted the values of early digital users—young, urban, educated, progressive. The news media, desperately hoping for digital prospects after losing traditional revenues, were the first and the most affected… Read More ›
The Viral Inquisitor and other essays on postjournalism and media ecology by Andrey Mir (2024) has just been published. Buy it on Amazon. Andrey Mir is the most profound observer of media, traditional and digital, writing today. No one else comes… Read More ›
A triple review of Andrey Mir’s “Human as Media,” “Postjournalism,” and “Digital Future in the Rear View Mirror.” (Excerpts from William Kuhns’ review in: New Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, Vol 4 No 1 (Spring 2024). By William Kuhns… Read More ›
Media scholar Andrey Mir, author of “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers”, talks about the social media-driven polarisation in society and explains why our future money may consist of attention, time, engagement, contribution and participation. Published in New Money Review… Read More ›
Why polarisation is a media effect and what we can do about it. Populism and polarisation are structurally embedded into this social-economic symbiosis. This media hardware can and must work only with this cultural software. Excerpts from the paper. Full… Read More ›
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