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Andrey Mir
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Author: The Technological Imperative ⬩ The Digital Reversal ⬩ Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror ⬩ Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers
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    Andrey Mir
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    Apr 20
    Do humans or technologies shape history? That was the question during the Cold War: are we doomed just because a doomsday weapon has already been made, or can we still control its power? A somewhat similar question resurfaces with AI. My new book:
    The Technological Imperative: Why We Develop Our Media. Essays on Human Agency and AI
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    Andrey Mir
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    Dec 8, 2022
    Harry Potter's characters, if written by Dostoevsky
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    Andrey Mir
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    Dec 8, 2022
    Replying to @StephanSturges
    With a deeper inner world, I would say.
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    Andrey Mir
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    Dec 9, 2022
    More Harry Potter's characters, if written by Dostoevsky. (Created by Midjourney AI. It's certainly a new level of... pattern recognition)
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    Andrey Mir
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    Jan 16, 2022
    PreGPS-navigator The 1927 Plus Four Wristlet Route Indicator with tiny interchangeable roll paper maps. Don't forget upload all the local maps (into the box). @mediarchaeology
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    Andrey Mir
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    Dec 9, 2022
    Replying to @Andrey4Mir and @interpolated
    Yes, Midjourney AI bot. Here is more Harry Potter's characters, touched by the Russian literature of the 19th century.
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    Andrey Mir
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    Mar 29, 2024
    Replying to @Quillette
    No, in 2012-2014 advertising revenue in the media dropped below reader revenue. The media started wooing the digital audience in the hope for subscriptions. At the time, the early social media audience was young, educated, urban, progressive. The media aligned with their value:
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    Andrey Mir
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    Dec 5, 2021
    Wow, is it for real? Toy soldiers of the coming civil war. 1 maga-shaman, 194 incels, 5 anti-vax podcasters, 406 karens, 2 bonkers congress-women, and others. Quite an army. Trump figure sold separately.
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    Andrey Mir
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    Feb 9, 2021
    Because of the internet, the news media revenue switched from ads to readers. The ad-driven media manufactured consent; the reader-driven media manufacture anger. The former served consumerism. The latter serve polarization. In my book “#Postjournalism” 1/
    Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polari...
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    Andrey Mir
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    Jan 9, 2022
    Not only did the language of the Times change in 2011-2012 (@bungarsargon), but also a huge shift happened in the business. In 2012, @nytimes became dependent on readers. This shift has caused mutation of NYT journalism into #postjournalism.
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    Andrey Mir
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    Nov 27, 2024
    Replying to @brian_armstrong
    This, btw, can serve as fertile ground for a new Trump Bump in the news media. Just focus on exposing political abuses of power and bureaucratic privileges, and public attention will follow. If goes as promissed, @VivekGRamaswamy and @elonmusk will supply a lot fuel for it.
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    Andrey Mir
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    Apr 22, 2022
    Disinformation is undefeatable because fake news is better than news. Fake news is news that is wanted. Fake news is just too good to be true. True is not that good.
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    Andrey Mir
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    Feb 25, 2023
    Replying to @RichardHanania
    Saakashvili in Georgia criminalized the status of criminal leaders, Thief-By-Law (= Italian "Don"). Judges asked, "Are you a Thief-By-Law?" According to their ethic, they can't say "no" - they would 1) strip of status 2) out of cowardice. They landed in jail or fled the country.
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    Andrey Mir
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    Nov 16, 2024
    20-30K prime time viewers for "national" TV is below the levels of recognizability of an aspiring Instagramer. This Greenwald's post, quite casual, scored 16.5k views. These networks enjoyed the Trump Bump in his first term. The second term will bury them, institutionaly.
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    Glenn Greenwald
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    Nov 16, 2024
    Lots of articles on how MSNBC's audience has completely collapsed -- disappeared -- once Kamala lost and the got disillusioned, but the full extent is shocking. Their prime-time shows can't even get 75k people watching in the key demo (18-54). Weekend shows don't even get 30k!
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