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• The hamsterization of journalism and cannibalism of news teasers

  By Andrey Mir on March 16, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Being forced to compete for attention on social media, the media turn the readers of articles into the readers of recaps. News teasers on social media do more than just announce the news; they actually deliver the news. A chapter… Read More ›

• How both old and new media polarise society for profit (or survival)

  By Andrey Mir on February 23, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• The eternal failure of selling news

  By Andrey Mir on February 16, 2021 • ( 5 )

  

  News itself is a very paradoxical commodity. It always ‘needs’ to be read; it is always in some kind of demand from below. But there is always someone from above who wants to pay for certain news to be delivered… Read More ›

• Review of Andrey Mir’s “Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers”

  By Andrey Mir on February 11, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The full title of Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers. The Media after Trump: Manufacturing Anger and Polarization by Andrey Mir says it all: the delivery of news on Twitter and social media to an increasing majority of people has… Read More ›

• Rage on social media: signaling intensities instead of feelings

  By Andrey Mir on February 6, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Signaling intensities instead of feelings has become a built-in setting of social media that encourages socializing through rage. For platform owners, it is a good thing, the bread and butter of business. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of… Read More ›

• Postjournalism: Subjective modality in the guise of objective modality

  By Andrey Mir on February 3, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  Postjournalism passes off the opinion as the fact, the connotation as the denotation, the attitude as the referent. To put it simply, in postjournalism, reporting is commenting. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). Subjective modality in… Read More ›

• Philanthropy funding of journalism: noble corruption

  By Andrey Mir on February 2, 2021 • ( 7 )

  

  Foundation funding of the news media comes with a price. It quietly pushes journalism towards activism. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). Funding journalism by foundations is perceived as a positive tendency because no one’s individual… Read More ›

• McLuhan and resettling into the digital

  By Andrey Mir on January 25, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  “McLuhan foresaw that electronic media gave humans the quality of a disembodied, angel-like spirit, which happens to us right now when we literally resettle to social media or video games and operate our digital selves.” Mike Hodgkinson published in Post… Read More ›

• The news media: manufacturing anger, not consent. Herman-Chomsky’s Propaganda model revised

  By Andrey Mir on January 17, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  When Herman and Chomsky described their Propaganda model, the news media were paid predominantly by advertisers and therefore tended to beautify reality. But advertising is gone. The media try to attract reader revenue. But this is a very peculiar reader… Read More ›

• The quantum theory of media

  By Andrey Mir on January 16, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  “The future of the book is the blurb,” as McLuhan once said. The news teaser, not even the article, is now the quantum of media content. A chapter from “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). What is the unit… Read More ›

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