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The platform paradox
We can grow our digital “bodies” – but we cannot own them
Feb 10, 2025
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Andrey Mir
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As speech shrinks — thought starves. Cognitive effects of digital orality
Digital orality: fewer words, more interaction, less abstraction
Feb 27
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Andrey Mir
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Screen time is stolen time-2: 19 digital rules for kids and families
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…
Sep 18, 2025
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Andrey Mir
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The New York Times isn’t winning the news business. It’s escaping it
The Times found a business solution for journalism. It’s not selling news, and it’s not replicable.
Feb 21
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Andrey Mir
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Digital orality: the return of speech
How texting is changing thought and society
Jan 25
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Andrey Mir
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The dark side of the screen (The reversal of light)
Our journey from dark to light screens—and now back again—illuminates how digital media shape human perception.
Nov 23, 2025
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Andrey Mir
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Screen time is stolen time
A French neuroscientist shows that screens and kids shouldn’t mix.
Sep 14, 2025
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Andrey Mir
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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
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Andrey Mir
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Counter-digital resistance: the Awe Exercise to foster environmental Awereness
Awe offers hormonal stimuli unknown in the digital world, but (hopefully) sufficiently strong for withdrawal.
Nov 7, 2025
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Andrey Mir
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How we acquire knowledge: The reversal from reading to asking
Generative AI is a super-elder and super-traveler, just like the gods in an oral culture.
Aug 4, 2025
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Andrey Mir
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Eight theses on counter-digital media literacy
A manifesto of cooperation with the inevitable
Oct 3, 2024
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Andrey Mir
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Digital reality as a Ponzi scheme: you benefit from replies of others
And there is no other value there
Aug 20, 2025
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Andrey Mir
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