Our journey from dark to light screens—and now back again—illuminates how digital media shape human perception.

A book of practical strategies to resist digital nudges and reclaim offline–online balance.

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.

The social media forces of virality have irrevocably changed the nature of academia

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.

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...

A futuristic speculation

The public may still be revolting, but digital media is now ushering in the restoration of institutional control over society

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

Beautifully awkward Katy Perry Left Shark moment.

Toronto has definitely been not just a "meeting place," but also a place of force. A review of "Wisdom Weavers."

Alphabetic writing visualized not the objects or the ideas of objects but speech itself.

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...

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...

From the blogosphere to social media — from the Viral Editor to the Viral Inquisitor

In 2016-2018, Donald Trump made the mainstream American media great again. Not for long, though.

Grok, or any AI, can simplify bills for the public or become a political weapon

Amazon.com: The Viral Inquisitor and other essays on postjournalism and media ecology eBook : Mir, Andrey: Kindle Store

It’s the ‘social’ part that’s the problem

The Internet has transformed from a tool of liberation to a mechanism of social control.

Primary orality had some capacities for fragmenting—oral communication was naturally constrained by time and space.

AI tools are generating ultra-realistic customized podcasts that can be used for a variety of legitimate purposes. The Tow Center tests how they can also create misleading content and propaganda.

Written words—and especially letters—halted and disassembled the natural flow of events, reassembling it into the intelligible structure—knowledge.

"The features of orality" - a section from "Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect"

The trauma of the alphabet involved the dissolution of society based on tribal unity and kinship. Digital orality reverses the media effects of the alphabet and retrieves some features of tribalism.

A manifesto of cooperation with the inevitable

(This is a pretentious probe; don’t read it if you’re not into such stuff)

Social media increasingly serve not to facilitate the simple exchange of written information but to sort out everyone’s attitude toward the most pressing issues of the day.