Human as Media

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• Probe: a brief chart of media effects

  By Andrey Mir on March 11, 2023 • ( 0 )

  

  …With writing, shamans became priests and magic turned into religion. Thus, irrigation is the mother of writing, and the bureaucrat is the second oldest profession.

• Media recapitulation

  By Andrey Mir on June 28, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Individual media development of children should repeat the evolution of the species – step by step, not leapfrogging to the last and most attractive stage, digital media.

• The Medium Is the Menace

  By Andrey Mir on June 25, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  The miniscule but instant hormonal reward for a mere click rewires the brain and reshapes society. We’re not just spending time on the Internet. We are investing time in its improvement.

• The Mind Map of Media Ecology

  By Andrey Mir on April 4, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  A review of Lance Strate’s “Media Ecology: An Approach to Understanding the Human Condition”.
  There are no phenomena that we experience without mediation of our tools, interfaces, and technologies. So, what else, if not media, do we need to learn first and foremost about everything to get that everything right?

• The Medium Is the Emancipation

  By Andrey Mir on June 22, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  Human as media: The Emancipation of Authorship is the potential given to the majority of citizens to promote (or publish) their ideas far beyond their immediate circle.

• How to live with polarisation

  By Andrey Mir on March 30, 2021 • ( 2 )

  

  Media scholar Andrey Mir, author of “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers”, talks about the social media-driven polarisation in society and explains why our future money may consist of attention, time, engagement, contribution and participation. Published in New Money Review… 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 ›

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

  By Andrey Mir on February 11, 2021 • ( 1 )

  

  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 ›

• Martin Gurri on “Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers”

  By Andrey Mir on January 6, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Andrey Mir’s previous book, “Human as Media”, was a little masterpiece that accounted for the large transformations brought about by the “emancipation of authorship” in the internet. His latest book, “Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers”, may be the most… Read More ›

• Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers on Podcast “Worker & Parasite”

  By Andrey Mir on November 14, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  On the podcast this week, Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers: The Media After Trump by Andrey Mir. Next time: Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities by Eric Kaufmann and Big White Ghetto: Dead Broke, Stone-Cold Stupid,… Read More ›

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