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 ›
Media ecology
Books and longreading: a farewell to Prometheus
Book reading as fire usage: What is more important, the result or the process? Long reading was previously considered a way of transferring knowledge. But nowadays linear reading is becoming much shorter. The culture of information consumption is changing, along… Read More ›
Myth about rubbish content on the Internet. 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 ›
Phenomenological Postmetaneopositivism
(Prolegomena to the methodology of unscientific knowledge) 1. There is a reason underlying the expression “what underlies the facts.” Facts serve to cover up the essence of things. . 1.1. Facts take a lot of time without adding much sense…. 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 ›
Extremism and terrorism are the extra price that humankind pays for successful Silicon Valley startups
It is primarily technocrats who are occupied with preparations for tomorrow. They are good at what they do: innovation. For them, the compression of time is a celebration of accelerated monetization. Never before in history have there been as many… Read More ›
Journalism kills diversity to establish cohesion
The mass media’s basic function is to eliminate the diversity of opinions. If there were no media, there would be as many personal pictures of the world as there are households. There would be unimaginable anarchy. Journalism amputates and, at… 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 ›