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 ›
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 ›
“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 ›
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 ›
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 futurist Andrey Miroshnichenko talks about the ways internet changes our daily lives. Polina Ryzhova 28.09.2015, 13:32, Gazeta.ru Twitter revolutions, religious extremism, “the new Dark Age” – these are social reactions towards the fast-paced media evolution of recent years, says… Read More ›
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 ›
For media ecology scholars, the Coach House has always been a place of force. On October 20th, 2015, the McLuhans and Mcluhanists gathered in the Coach House, at the University of Toronto, to revitalize the “McLuhan Centre for Culture and… Read More ›
In the age of total algorithmization, the wrongness of a performance becomes the value. Wrongness proves the authenticity of things.
Moving further into the digital world, we will be able to induce not just familiar but completely new, never before known senses. For example, a banking chip implanted under the skin may, one day, create the sense of a full… Read More ›
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