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Andrey Mir

Replaying history backward

The introduction to “Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror. Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect” (available on Amazon).

11 min readFeb 14, 2024

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Replaying history backward

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Andrey Mir

The 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 readNov 24, 2020

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The news media: watchdogs prefer the paywalled garden

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Andrey Mir

Journalism in search of a cute little monkey

Having lost their traditional business to the internet, the news media are forced to sell ‘something else’. But selling something else, not…

13 min readNov 20, 2020

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Journalism in search of a cute little monkey

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Andrey Mir

Postjournalism: from the world-as-it-is to the world-as-it-should-be

By 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 readNov 11, 2020

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Andrey Mir

Polarization studies are media studies

Fake 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 readNov 9, 2020

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Polarization studies are media studies

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Andrey Mir

The 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 readNov 2, 2020

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The New York Times: from “We are not American Idol” to “We are not resistance” (which is gone, too).

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Andrey Mir

Sourcing: 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 readOct 26, 2020

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Sourcing: news supply in the media.

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Andrey Mir

Postjournalism: Discourse concentration

The topics and discourses that do not support polarization will not circulate in the media for long or will be completely ignored. A…

8 min readOct 25, 2020

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Postjournalism: Discourse concentration

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Andrey Mir

The Trump bump in the news media: commodifighting Trump

The commercial motives behind the media coverage of Trump remain unrevealed to the public. Business stimuli for the media to cover Trump’s…

12 min readOct 20, 2020

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The Trump bump in the news media: commodifighting Trump

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Andrey Mir

Media business: why subscription mutates into membership

Increasingly, 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 readOct 16, 2020

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Media business: why subscription mutates into membership

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Andrey Mir

Andrey Mir

Media futurologist, the author of “Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror”(2024), “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers”(2020), and “Human as media”(2014)

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