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Replaying history backward

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

Feb 14, 2024

Replaying history backward

Feb 14, 2024

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…

Nov 24, 2020

The news media: watchdogs prefer the paywalled garden

Nov 24, 2020

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…

Nov 20, 2020

Journalism in search of a cute little monkey

Nov 20, 2020

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…

Nov 11, 2020

Nov 11, 2020

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…

Nov 9, 2020

Polarization studies are media studies

Nov 9, 2020

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…

Nov 2, 2020

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

Nov 2, 2020

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…

Oct 26, 2020

Sourcing: news supply in the media.

Oct 26, 2020

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…

Oct 25, 2020

Postjournalism: Discourse concentration

Oct 25, 2020

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…

Oct 20, 2020

The Trump bump in the news media: commodifighting Trump

Oct 20, 2020

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…

Oct 16, 2020

Media business: why subscription mutates into membership

Oct 16, 2020

Andrey Mir

Andrey Mir

Media ecologist, author of “The Viral Inquisitor” (2024), “Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” (2020). Main blog: Media Determinism (Substack).

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