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• Polarization studies are media studies

  By Andrey Mir on November 9, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Fake news is not the principal problem in the new media environment. The impact of fake news is already mitigated by the users’ growing immunity and also by the growing noise that diminishes the potency of fake news’ impact. The… Read More ›

• The New York Times: from “We are not American Idol” to “We are not resistance” (which is gone, too).

  By Andrey Mir on November 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The real symbol of the Trump bump is the New York Times. The Gray Lady made unprecedented progress during the first year of Trump’s presidency. At the beginning of the campaign, the New York Times had slightly over 1 million… Read More ›

• Paul Levinson on the power of power and advertisers over media

  By Andrey Mir on November 1, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The US Senate vs. Twitter, or Violating the First Amendment vs. Violating the Spirit of the First Amendment. (A prominent media theorist and author of “Digital McLuhan: A Guide to the Information Millennium”, Paul Levinson from Fordham University in New… Read More ›

• Sourcing: news supply in the media. The switch from news to opinions and from bureaucrats to “experts”

  By Andrey Mir on October 26, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The media cannot afford to have correspondents everywhere where something might happen. They need to rely on other networks through which important information circulates – the bureaucratic networks of government and corporations. Thus, the information supplied by the bureaucracies has… Read More ›

• Postjournalism: Discourse concentration

  By Andrey Mir on October 25, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The polarization of stances requires the commonality of topics, in which the stances have to be polarized. In Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), the deadly clash within the great Lilliput nation was caused by irreconcilable discord regarding which end of an… Read More ›

• The Trump bump in the news media: commodifighting Trump

  By Andrey Mir on October 20, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  The commercial motives behind the media coverage of Trump remain unrevealed to the public. Business stimuli for the media to cover Trump’s every move contributed to a media environment favorable to Trumpism. Meantime, the media themselves became more and more… Read More ›

• Media business: why subscription mutates into membership

  By Andrey Mir on October 16, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Increasingly, the product of journalism will be paid for not by those who consume it but by those who want it to be delivered to others. In the media markets of the developed countries, a peculiar phenomenon has emerged, whereby… Read More ›

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

  By Andrey Mir on October 11, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Interjections and emojis: the digital reversal of literacy back to the origin of language

  By Andrey Mir on October 7, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Electronic media, as McLuhan noted, retribalized society and therefore diminished the significance and influence of literacy. Retribalization of culture by the switch from literacy media to digital media reverses social communication not just back to orality, but even to the… Read More ›

• Factoid. Validation by dissemination

  By Andrey Mir on October 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  In their newsfeed, everyone can occasionally get videos of a bear swimming in a backyard pool, a husky dog teaching a human baby to crawl, or a bunch of school bullies harassing a classmate. The video format certifies that those… Read More ›

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