Counter-digital media literacy: practical tips

A secret pilot leaked from the convention floor in Winnipeg

Last week I presented this talk at the Media Ecology Association convention in Winnipeg. The presentation introduces a concept I’ve been working on: counter-digital media literacy. This is another reversal, this time a deliberate one: while traditional media literacy teaches how to use media, counter-digital media literacy teaches how not to use them.

The presentation is an outline of a work in progress that will soon be published as a book with a catalogue of practical tips, followed by the basic media-ecological principles that frame them. The working title is Counter-Digital Media Literacy: Practical Tips. For now, this is just a lazy blog post—mostly to see how the ideas look after being laid out. But anyone with comments or criticism is most welcome.

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And yes, there is a lot of other funny stuff there.

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See other books by Andrey Mir:

• NEW! The Technological Imperative: Why We Develop Our Media. Essays on Human Agency and AI (2026)

• The Digital Reversal. Thread-Saga of Media Evolution (2025)

• The Viral Inquisitor and other essays on postjournalism and media ecology (2024)

• Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect (2024)

• Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polarization (2020)

• Human as media. The emancipation of authorship (2014)