Just a small catalog of essential books on media ecology, postjournalism, digital orality, and AI. Start with this one: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHK51WFB
Andrey Mir
@andrey4mir.bsky.social
Author: The Viral Inquisitor ⬩ Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror ⬩ Postjournalism and the death of newspapers ⬩ Human as Media. I study media and everything. andrey4mir.substack.com
CAMPAIGN UPDATE Kickstarter campaign for my new book “Counter-Digital Media Literacy” hit 54% of its funding goal (CA$6,400) by the end of the 2nd day. Join the cause of counter-digital media literacy! www.kickstarter.com/projects/and...
Counter-Digital Media Literacy
A book of practical strategies to resist digital nudges and reclaim offline–online balance.
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“The Digital Reversal” – #1 Amazon Hot New Release in Digital Media. “The future of the book is the blurb,” said Marshall McLuhan. This book is written in tweets – 1,295 of them. It’s a Tweetise – a reversal of the book. Check it out on Amazon: amazon.com/dp/B0FHK51WFB
New book: “The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution.” “The future of the book is the blurb,” said McLuhan. The future arrives - this book is written in tweets, 1,295 of them. In thread-chapters, they describe what media evolution does to us. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FHK51WFB
The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution
The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution - Kindle edition by Mir, Andrey. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution.
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Media effects of escalated digital publishing - citation inflation - self-reinforced interdisciplinarity - the fusion of publishing and social media publicity with its social contagion have turned academia into activism. My latest in Discourse. www.discoursemagazine.com/p/academic-a...
Academic Activism as an Effect of Digital Media
The social media forces of virality have irrevocably changed the nature of academia
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"Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror" explores the digital shift as a reversal of literacy through the lens of media determinism. The effects of orality and literacy are examined to show how they play out in digital society. www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP4QLNSS
Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect
Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect - Kindle edition by Mir, Andrey. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect.
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NEW: @andrey4mir.bsky.social writes that antitrust scholarship and enforcement seeking to break up platform monopolies overlook benefits that these platforms provide because they are monopolies. He says this should be kept in mind while seeking to alleviate harms any monopoly incurs to the economy.
The Benefits of Platform Monopoly - ProMarket
Andrey Mir writes that antitrust scholarship and enforcement seeking to break up platform monopolies overlook the benefits that these platforms provide because they are monopolies. He says the communi...
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The Chain of Singularities Why deep space exploration will never happen. – Nanotechnologies as medieval alchemy. – The completion of media evolution. – The trial by getting high. – The paradox of self-copying. – Mega-evolution and Singularity-2. andrey4mir.substack.com/p/the-chain-...
The Chain of Singularities
A futuristic speculation
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⚡️FOUR FACTORS THAT ENDED THE REVOLT OF THE PUBLIC 1) The global demographic transition to digital, which caused the revolt of the public in the first place, is now complete. This demographic transition occured in 2 distinct waves:.. My latest in Discourse: www.discoursemagazine.com/p/is-the-rev...
Is the Revolt of the Public Over?
The public may still be revolting, but digital media is now ushering in the restoration of institutional control over society
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"Postjournalism" and "The Revolt of the Public" - always together. Best sellers in Amazon's Media & Internet in Politics. www.amazon.com/gp/bestselle...
The growth of public use of interjections, the most ‘non-semiotic’ of verbal means, clearly indicates the reversal of culture from literate to oral.
Interjections and emojis: the digital reversal of literacy back to the origin of speech
The growth of public use of interjections, the most ‘non-semiotic’ of verbal means, clearly indicates the reversal of culture from literate to oral.
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Here are we go: #1 Amazon Bestseller in Digital Media: Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect. Check it out: www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP4QLNSS
"Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect" is #3 in Amazon Best Sellers category Digital Media. Not only "Digital Media" though but that's ok. Make it #1 - www.amazon.com/Digital-Futu...
The Wrong Theory. Beautifully awkward Katy Perry Left Shark moment – Shark Ex Machina – Wrong Olympic snowflake – Perfectness alienates, wrongness invites – Сargo cult of robot journalists – Give them bait – Degas’ horse head cut – Wrong means exists. andrey4mir.substack.com/p/the-wrong-...
The Wrong Theory. Wrongness as a lure, in design and media
Beautifully awkward Katy Perry Left Shark moment.
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"The book encompasses everything related to the two most famous Canadian scholars, from their lives to all relevant events, key concepts, and the people involved in their orbit, making "Wisdom Weavers" truly an encyclopedia of all things Innis and McLuhan." andrey4mir.substack.com/p/the-encycl...
The encyclopedia of the Toronto School of Communication
Toronto has definitely been not just a "meeting place," but also a place of force. A review of "Wisdom Weavers."
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Alphabetic writing visualized not the objects or the ideas of objects but speech itself. Viewing recorded speech meant seeing the “footprints” of thinking. andrey4mir.substack.com/p/effects-of...
Effects of writing. Thinking about thinking: logic and theorizing
Alphabetic writing visualized not the objects or the ideas of objects but speech itself.
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9. Boredom during leisure time is important! When children have nothing to do, they face the challenge of entertaining themselves, which is highly beneficial for cognitive development andrey4mir.substack.com/p/screen-tim...
Screen time is stolen time: 19 digital rules for kids and families
This is an appendix to my review of Michel Desmurget’s 2022 book Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children. At the end of the book, Desmurget suggests “Seven Fundamental Rules.” However...
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Nate Silver says the idea of “fact-checking” as a separate subset of specialized journalism requiring special experts is odd, and he’s not wrong: www.natesilver.net/p/the-ris…
Screen time is stolen time: 19 digital rules for kids and families andrey4mir.substack.com/p/screen-tim...
Screen time is stolen time: 19 digital rules for kids and families
This is an appendix to my review of Michel Desmurget’s 2022 book Screen Damage: The Dangers of Digital Media for Children. At the end of the book, Desmurget suggests “Seven Fundamental Rules.” However...
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This is worse than anything that was alleged in the Twitter Files
Leah McElrath@leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2y ago⚠️ In response to Musk changing the X algorithm to deboost negative content, people asked Grok what is considered “negative” and were told: • Criticism of the government • Commentary about misinformation • Suggestion the public is being manipulated • Attacks against powerful people or institutions
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Under the new algorithm, posts by [redacted] could be considered too
negative might include those that express strong dissent against established narratives or institutions, or those that portray a very bleak or cynical view of societal or political outcomes. Here are some examples based on posts found on X:
• Posts that directly attack or insult powerful figures or institutions could be seen as too negative, especially if they suggest systemic manipulation or deceit. This includes posts that question official narratives or imply widespread misinformation by political influencers.
• Comments on the manipulation of public sentiment or the encouragement of negative social behaviors, like casual sadism or misinformation, would likely be viewed negatively under an algorithm designed to reduce the spread of content that could be seen as objectionable or divisive.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gvda6fem6r7selm4gzjjww4a/bafkreiapqtacqylbomifj7xltpfszng5mgohvobnovdjrutbytm5d655aq)
The Manifesto of the Viral Editor From the blogosphere to social media — from the Viral Editor to the Viral Inquisitor andrey4mir.substack.com/p/the-manife...
The Manifesto of the Viral Editor
From the blogosphere to social media — from the Viral Editor to the Viral Inquisitor
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In terms of media ecology, yes to all of this. The (only) affordance of guns is killing. There were no errors before pencils. There is no such thing as drunk driving without cars. There was no obesity before utensils.
Business stimuli for the media to cover Trump’s every move contributed to a media environment favorable to Trumpism. Commodifighting Trump: the Trump bump in the news media --> andrey4mir.substack.com/p/commodifig...
Commodifighting Trump: the Trump bump in the news media
In 2016-2018, Donald Trump made the mainstream American media great again. Not for long, though.
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How else can Elon Musk affect bureaucracy? Grok, or any AI, can simplify bills for the public or become a political weapon. Journalism realized a similar idea 15 years ago but with crowdsourcing, not AI. Read about Guardian's project to control lawmakers. www.discoursemagazine.com/p/how-else-c...
How Else Can Elon Musk Affect Bureaucracy?
Grok, or any AI, can simplify bills for the public or become a political weapon
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I believe it is an unwritten parliamentary convention that the Deputy Prime Minister shall retain their title and powers until someone sends enough emails nagging the PMO's IT guy to update the prime minister's website
New book: The Viral Inquisitor. The world is switching from print to digital. Media are the hardware of society, and culture is its software; a change in hardware makes habitual software obsolete and disrupts old balances. Get it on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBW1P28L
The Viral Inquisitor and other essays on postjournalism and media ecology
Amazon.com: The Viral Inquisitor and other essays on postjournalism and media ecology eBook : Mir, Andrey: Kindle Store
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A great piece by @Schneider_CM in Discourse Social media’s biggest strength—that all users can post and have their voices heard—became its greatest weakness: that all users can post and have their voices heard. BUT NO: the problem is not people.. 1/3 www.discoursemagazine.com/p/sorry-soci...
Sorry, Social Media Is Never Getting Any Better
It’s the ‘social’ part that’s the problem
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BBS AI-powered headline generator has joined the fake news production. BBC complained that Apple AI turned its news into a misleading snippet: "Luigi Mangione shoots himself." On the bright side, they saved on the human social media editor. www.bbc.com/news/article...
