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Postjournalism: The reversal of the media from news supply to news validation

The reversal of explosion into implosion: AI as the true affordance of digital media

If art has reversed from pursuing beauty to seeking self-expression…

Replaying history backward: from print literacy to digital orality

The crisis of technological takeover—then and now

John Lennon’s unwritten song with lyrics by Marshall McLuhan

The digital age’s reversion to pre-literate communication

The alphabet, monotheism, the absolute, and the universal law

South by Northwest

The dark side of the screen (The reversal of light)

Generating knowledge with AI: Epistemic partnership?

If media evolve to replay human functions, what will be the ultimate form of Human Replay?

Counter-digital resistance: the Awe Exercise to foster environmental Awereness

The great digital reversal

From Post-literate to Posthuman

Intellectual escalation: The reversal of academia into activism

Feminism as a media effect and the chain of gender reversals

Postjournalism and news sourcing: supplying opinions instead of news

Geoff Shullenberger: The Death of Gutenberg (City Journal)

Bari Weiss and Postjournalism

Blissful ignorance

The Digital Rush of the 2010s: Discourse reversal

Reversal in understanding media

Tom Cooper: What might Innis and McLuhan have said in the era of digital media and AI?

William Kuhns: Mir-roring McLuhan in the digital era

The Revolt of the Public reversed: from digital freedom to digital control

Counter-digital media literacy has a therapeutic effect: it rehumanizes humans

Vygotsky and the child language of AI

The reversal of human agency: The technological imperative

Screen time is stolen time-2: 19 digital rules for kids and families

Upcoming book Counter-Digital Media Literacy is about how not to use media

Screen time is stolen time

Counter-Digital Media Literacy: a new book coming in 2026

Time-space reversal: from colonizing space to taming time

From the Society of the Spectacle to the Digital Carnival

Everything you know and everything you are is becoming its opposite

Empathy reversal: from maintaining tribal unity to virtue signaling

Why did journalism even appear?

When newspapers die

"Obama, the coolest president ever!"

Digital reality as a Ponzi scheme: you benefit from replies of others

Review of Andrey Mir's The Digital Reversal: Media, Social Media, AI, and the Fate of Humanity

Factoid and crowdsourced truth: The reversal of truth into significance

The reversal of identity into credentials: the fallout of media targeting

How we acquire knowledge: The reversal from reading to asking

Digital orality: The flip of text into texting

The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of Media Evolution—just published!

The features of orality: Bragging

Ripple effect of writing: how literacy changed thinking and society

Rage on social media: intensity instead of feelings

Media as equalizer: digital orality and global anti-globalism

Phenomenological Metapostneopositivism

Digital orality: Relational bias and requests for affirmation

A modest proposal for Elon Musk: Set a 280-character minimum for tweets

The cannibalism of news teasers

Media evolution – the evolution of what?

Postjournalism and polarization

How both old and new media polarize society for profit (or survival)

The Global Village, divisive and full of fighting

From orality to literacy: from collective indoctrination to personal inquiring (and now back)

The literate bias and understanding of orality

Probe: a brief chart of media effects

Post-truth: too good to be true

The Revolt of the Public and Media Ecology

Interjections and emojis: the digital reversal of literacy back to the origin of speech

The platform paradox

Foundation funding for the media: noble corruption

The Wrong Theory. Wrongness as a lure, in design and media

The encyclopedia of the Toronto School of Communication

Effects of writing. Thinking about thinking: logic and theorizing

Screen time is stolen time: 19 digital rules for kids and families

The Manifesto of the Viral Editor