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• Our guide through the media labyrinth – foreward to Andrey Mir’s The Viral Inquisitor by Martin Gurri

  By Andrey Mir on August 4, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• The list of forbidden books on media ecology

  By Andrey Mir on June 11, 2024 • ( 2 )

  

  As was the case with McLuhan, academia still struggles to appreciate media ecology. Communication departments tend to divide the field between an administrative approach and cultural criticism. The administrative approach, most clearly associated with the Columbia School and later empirical/effects-oriented… Read More ›

• William Kuhns: Mir-roring McLuhan in the digital era

  By Andrey Mir on May 8, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  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 ›

• Geoff Shullenberger: The Death of Gutenberg (City Journal)

  By Andrey Mir on April 27, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Is the rise of digital media causing the fall of literacy? A review of Andrey Mir’s Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect in City Journal, excerpts. Despite the hopes and fears invested in… Read More ›

• Time travel and media ecology

  By Andrey Mir on April 3, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  A review of Paul Levinson’s “The Plot to Save Socrates” (2006). Time-travel stories are commonly used to explore questions of logic, ethics, philosophy, and social organization. Paul Levinson’s “The Plot to Save Socrates” (2006) adds media ecology to this set…. Read More ›

• Media platforms of mind

  By Andrey Mir on March 25, 2024 • ( 1 )

  

  Primary orality – Craft Literacy – Phantom Literacy – Semi-literacy – General Literacy – Residual Orality – Secondary Orality (Electronic Orality) – Emancipated Authorship – Digital Orality – Digital Sensorium. An excerpt from Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial… Read More ›

• The shrinking of media eras: the Singularity countdown

  By Andrey Mir on March 20, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Historical periods have a distinctive temporal characteristic in their progression: each following historical period was shorter than the previous one. History accelerated because the change of media forced it. An excerpt from Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age… Read More ›

• The Fifth Wave: Andrey Mir takes on world history

  By Andrey Mir on February 21, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  In Mir’s big new book, Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror, he explains how media made history and may soon end it. A review by Martin Gurri in Discourse. Contemporary humanity is a child lost in the woods, haunted by… Read More ›

• Agonistic mentality of oral culture

  By Andrey Mir on February 17, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  On social media, everyone seeks affirmation from others on a scale unheard of in human history. Not only is the agonistic mentality making a comeback from the oral era, but it also threatens representative democracy (by amplifying polarization) and people’s… Read More ›

• Ripple effect of writing: how literacy changed thinking and society

  By Andrey Mir on February 14, 2024 • ( 0 )

  

  Writing – temple bureaucracy – bookkeeping – palace economy – irrigation, management, engineering – archiving – libraries – classification and cataloguing – codes of laws – scribe schools – semiotics and syntax – priests-scholars – abstract thinking. A chapter from Digital… Read More ›

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