Archive - Media Determinism

The Internet Doesn't Want Your Attention. It Wants Your Effort.

The ease of clicking flips physical doing into digital being as a sufficient basis for reward.

Published on default.blog • Apr 9

Political divide shapes social media bubbles on X and Bluesky

Checking out a year-old prediction about social media bubbles

Apr 3 • Andrey Mir

March 2026

3 ways to prove you’re human online

As AI overwhelms the web, we will need a way to distinguish people from machines.

Published on Big Think • Mar 31

On rising unhappiness in the West and the Smartphone Theory of Everything

Cultures with stronger alphabetic literacy HAVE TO suffer from digital reversal the most

Mar 30 • Andrey Mir

The features of orality: collective involvement—you’ll never walk alone

An oral individual carries an acoustic bubble of self-exhibition like a smell, so that everyone around can get involved or be repelled.

Mar 27 • Andrey Mir

The features of orality: Environmental immersion—experiencing the world live

My two cents on the introspection debate

Mar 23 • Andrey Mir

Podcasts vs reading (writing): where do people find time for it?

Reading provides what podcasts cannot: quotability and depersonalization

Mar 19 • Andrey Mir

Digital orality, the digital reversal, postjournalism, and the future of media

It’s hard to isolate the future of journalism when AI takes over human content production. Interview with Andrey Mir by David Sallinen.

Mar 15 • Andrey Mir

Robo-journalism before and after ChatGPT

The news industry has long been “collaborating” with writing algorithms. Generative AI has just made it visible

Mar 12 • Andrey Mir

Agonistic mentality of oral cultures – and digital orality

Walter Ong: "In oral cultures a request for information is commonly interpreted interactively, as agonistic, and, instead of being really answered, is…

Mar 10 • Andrey Mir

Yellowstone wolves and media-determinism

Yes, a single factor can disrupt and re-establish the equilibrium in an ecosystem

Mar 5 • Andrey Mir

February 2026

As speech shrinks — thought starves. Cognitive effects of digital orality

Digital orality: fewer words, more interaction, less abstraction

Feb 27 • Andrey Mir

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