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Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect

Popular Media Ecology, #1

by Andrey Mir ...

Series Book 1 - Popular Media Ecology
"A major theme of Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror is that the internet has pushed us to 'digital orality,' that is to say, to the forms of communication prevalent before the invention of writing. This brings in a long train of consequences, not least concerning the nature of truth."– Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the PublicAndrey Mir's Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror describes ... Read more

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"A major theme of Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror is that the internet has pushed us to 'digital orality,' that is to say, to the forms of communication prevalent before the invention of writing. This brings in a long train of consequences, not least concerning the nature of truth."– Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the PublicAndrey Mir's Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror describes
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The Digital Reversal. Thread-Saga of Media Evolution

Popular Media Ecology, #3

by Andrey Mir ...

Series Book 3 - Popular Media Ecology
The Digital Reversal is a frenetic textual machine that relentlessly generates sharp and controversial ideas. I didn't leave a single page unmarked or annotated. Reading it is like walking through a minefield: it's impossible not to step on one and set your neurons firing in an explosive chain of reasoning, refutations, and new ideas. It must be said plainly: Andrey is one of the authors who best ... Read more

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The Digital Reversal is a frenetic textual machine that relentlessly generates sharp and controversial ideas. I didn't leave a single page unmarked or annotated. Reading it is like walking through a minefield: it's impossible not to step on one and set your neurons firing in an explosive chain of reasoning, refutations, and new ideas. It must be said plainly: Andrey is one of the authors who best
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Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers. The Media after Trump: Manufacturing Anger and Polarization.

by Andrey Mir ...

"Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers may be the most profound analysis of the subject since the last time Marshall McLuhan wrote about it. Mir describes a universe in which the news now chases the reader rather than the other way around. Everything is told in a wonderful epigrammatic style – you will be digging up quotes from it for years."– Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the Public. ... Read more

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"Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers may be the most profound analysis of the subject since the last time Marshall McLuhan wrote about it. Mir describes a universe in which the news now chases the reader rather than the other way around. Everything is told in a wonderful epigrammatic style – you will be digging up quotes from it for years."– Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the Public.
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Human as media. The emancipation of authorship

by Andrey Mir ...

"With its concept of the 'viral editor' (now transformed, in our harsher decade, into 'viral inquisitor'), 'Human as Media' remains mandatory reading for anyone wishing to understand the disruptions of the digital."– Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the Public."Terrific book! Miroshnichenko is a media ecologist in the truest sense, analyzing the effect of technology on what it means to be ... Read more

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"With its concept of the 'viral editor' (now transformed, in our harsher decade, into 'viral inquisitor'), 'Human as Media' remains mandatory reading for anyone wishing to understand the disruptions of the digital."– Martin Gurri, author of The Revolt of the Public."Terrific book! Miroshnichenko is a media ecologist in the truest sense, analyzing the effect of technology on what it means to be
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The Technological Imperative: Why We Develop Our Media. Essays on Human Agency and AI

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by Andrey Mir ...

Series Book 4 - Popular Media Ecology
Do humans shape technology—or does technology shape us? This seemingly abstract question became crucial when humankind invented the atomic bomb: can we control the bomb? Now it has reemerged with AI. Are we served by AI, or do we serve AI?This book introduces a powerful idea—the technological imperative: the inherent tendency of any medium to evolve toward greater performance and capability. ... Read more

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Do humans shape technology—or does technology shape us? This seemingly abstract question became crucial when humankind invented the atomic bomb: can we control the bomb? Now it has reemerged with AI. Are we served by AI, or do we serve AI?This book introduces a powerful idea—the technological imperative: the inherent tendency of any medium to evolve toward greater performance and capability.
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The Viral Inquisitor and Other Essays on Postjournalism and Media Ecology

Popular Media Ecology, #2

by Andrey Mir ...

Series Book 2 - Popular Media Ecology
Media theorist Andrey Mir exposes the hidden media effects driving today's digital life, public debate, and political polarization. The Viral Inquisitor reveals how the very structure of digital media reshapes our minds, societies, and sense of truth.Martin Gurri (author of The Revolt of the Public) calls Mir "the most profound observer of media writing today"—and for good reason. In this wide ... Read more

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Media theorist Andrey Mir exposes the hidden media effects driving today's digital life, public debate, and political polarization. The Viral Inquisitor reveals how the very structure of digital media reshapes our minds, societies, and sense of truth.Martin Gurri (author of The Revolt of the Public) calls Mir "the most profound observer of media writing today"—and for good reason. In this wide
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Organizations

A Very Short Introduction

by Mary Jo Hatch ...

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Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do ... Read more

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Most of us recognize that organizations are everywhere. You meet them on every street corner in the form of families and shops, study in them, work for them, buy from them, pay taxes to them. But have you given much thought to where they came from, what they are today, and what they might become in the future? How and why do they have so much influence over us, and what influences them? How do
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The Folly of Technological Solutionism

by Evgeny Morozov ...

A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society, once ... Read more

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A New York Times Notable Book of the YearIn the very near future, "smart" technologies and "big data" will allow us to make large-scale and sophisticated interventions in politics, culture, and everyday life. Technology will allow us to solve problems in highly original ways and create new incentives to get more people to do the right thing. But how will such "solutionism" affect our society, once
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Organizations

A Systems Approach

by Stefan Kühl ...

From businesses, public administrations, universities and schools, to hospitals, prisons, political parties, or the military, peoples’ lives are inextricably bound up with organizations from cradle to grave. Yet we receive little training in how - as members, customers, voters, or patients - to deal with them. In Organizations Stefan KÃ¼hl asks and answers many questions. What are these entities ... Read more

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From businesses, public administrations, universities and schools, to hospitals, prisons, political parties, or the military, peoples’ lives are inextricably bound up with organizations from cradle to grave. Yet we receive little training in how - as members, customers, voters, or patients - to deal with them. In Organizations Stefan KÃ¼hl asks and answers many questions. What are these entities
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The Internet of Us

Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data

by Michael P. Lynch ...

"An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" —David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of BooksWe used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the ... Read more

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"An intelligent book that struggles honestly with important questions: Is the net turning us into passive knowers? Is it degrading our ability to reason? What can we do about this?" —David Weinberger, Los Angeles Review of BooksWe used to say "seeing is believing"; now, googling is believing. With 24/7 access to nearly all of the world’s information at our fingertips, we no longer trek to the
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The Digital Divide

Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking

by Mark Bauerlein ...

This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful ... Read more

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This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the most divisive cultural questions of our time. Some see the technological breakthroughs we live with as hopeful
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The Anti-Education Era

Creating Smarter Students through Digital Learning

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One of the first champions of the positive effects of gaming reveals the dark side of today's digital and social mediaToday's schools are eager to use the latest technology in the classroom, but rather than improving learning, the new e-media can just as easily narrow students' horizons. Education innovator James Paul Gee first documented the educational benefits of gaming a decade ago in his ... Read more

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One of the first champions of the positive effects of gaming reveals the dark side of today's digital and social mediaToday's schools are eager to use the latest technology in the classroom, but rather than improving learning, the new e-media can just as easily narrow students' horizons. Education innovator James Paul Gee first documented the educational benefits of gaming a decade ago in his
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