Andrey Mir

Counter-Digital Media Literacy A book of practical strategies to resist digital nudges and reclaim offline–online balance.

CAMPAIGN UPDATE
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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.
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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.

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.
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Academic Activism as an Effect of Digital Media The social media forces of virality have irrevocably changed the nature of academia

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.
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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.

"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.
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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...

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 Chain of Singularities A futuristic speculation

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.
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No. Strong societies depend on all information.

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

⚡️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...

"Postjournalism" and "The Revolt of the Public" - always together. Best sellers in Amazon's Media & Internet in Politics.
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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.

The growth of public use of interjections, the most ‘non-semiotic’ of verbal means, clearly indicates the reversal of culture from literate to oral.

Yeah, a nice PR move: to overload voters with multiple stories about various spendings.
If you want to boost Trump/Musk's support.

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. Wrongness as a lure, in design and media Beautifully awkward Katy Perry Left Shark moment.

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.
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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."

"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."
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Effects of writing. Thinking about thinking: logic and theorizing Alphabetic writing visualized not the objects or the ideas of objects but speech itself.

Alphabetic writing visualized not the objects or the ideas of objects but speech itself. Viewing recorded speech meant seeing the “footprints” of thinking.
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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...

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
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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 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...

Screen time is stolen time: 19 digital rules for kids and families
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This is worse than anything that was alleged in the Twitter Files

The Manifesto of the Viral Editor From the blogosphere to social media — from the Viral Editor to the Viral Inquisitor

The Manifesto of the Viral Editor
From the blogosphere to social media — from the Viral Editor to the Viral Inquisitor
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"...that so many of them are..."
How many?
This person is an example of how many?
You're a journalist, right?

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.

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.

Business stimuli for the media to cover Trump’s every move contributed to a media environment favorable to Trumpism.
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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

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.
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Prime Minister's website as of 6:55 PM EST Monday Dec 16, 2024 showing Chrystia Freeland is still Deputy Prime Minister

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

Not taking a side does not equate to having no idea.
In the age of reason, people used to believe that one could develop quite good ideas by not taking sides.
Many social practices related to decision-making are still based on it.

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

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:
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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

Animosity is the media effect of: 1) status contest combined with 2) immediate response and 3) other people watching.
It's inherent in orality - and now amplified even more by digital orality:
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