Andrey MirReplaying history backwardThe introduction to “Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror. Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect” (available on Amazon).11 min read·Feb 14, 2024----
Andrey MirThe news media: watchdogs prefer the paywalled garden“What happens when journalism is everywhere?”, Mathew Ingram asked in 2011. Nine years and one Trump term later, the answer is here. A…8 min read·Nov 24, 2020----
Andrey MirJournalism in search of a cute little monkeyHaving lost their traditional business to the internet, the news media are forced to sell ‘something else’. But selling something else, not…13 min read·Nov 20, 2020----
Andrey MirPostjournalism: from the world-as-it-is to the world-as-it-should-beBy the end of the 20thcentury, the business model of the media took its last and most optimal form: the media sold news downwards whilst…6 min read·Nov 11, 2020----
Andrey MirPolarization studies are media studiesFake news is not the principal problem in the new media environment. The impact of fake news is already mitigated by the users’ growing…18 min read·Nov 9, 2020----
Andrey MirThe New York Times: from “We are not American Idol” to “We are not resistance” (which is gone, too).The news validation within a certain value system is the only remaining function of news business that might have relative use-value for…18 min read·Nov 2, 2020----
Andrey MirSourcing: news supply in the media.Herman and Chomsky thought that government and corporate bureaucracies subsidized the media by supplying news, as it was rather expensive…18 min read·Oct 26, 2020--1--1
Andrey MirPostjournalism: Discourse concentrationThe topics and discourses that do not support polarization will not circulate in the media for long or will be completely ignored. A…8 min read·Oct 25, 2020----
Andrey MirThe Trump bump in the news media: commodifighting TrumpThe commercial motives behind the media coverage of Trump remain unrevealed to the public. Business stimuli for the media to cover Trump’s…12 min read·Oct 20, 2020----
Andrey MirMedia business: why subscription mutates into membershipIncreasingly, 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. A…9 min read·Oct 16, 2020----