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Understanding the Law of Reversal (II): Towards a Critique of Total Reversal.

Understanding the Law of Reversal (I): Humans as extensions of media.

New book: The Technological Imperative. Why we develop our media. Essays on human agency and AI

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

Political divide shapes social media bubbles on X and Bluesky

3 ways to prove you’re human online

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

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

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

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

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

Robo-journalism before and after ChatGPT

Agonistic mentality of oral cultures – and digital orality

Yellowstone wolves and media-determinism

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

The New York Times isn’t winning the news business. It’s escaping it

The only four truly immortal qualities of good old journalism

The acceleration problem: exponential AI upends incremental history

Four pounds of a single issue of The Washington Post from 2013

The Washington Post: will the endowment save the day? (A day, maybe.)

Does polarization really pay off for the media?

Digital orality: the return of speech

There is no “I” in AI (but not that “I” that you think)

Why we think villains are always more efficient at using the Internet

Journalism in search of a cute little monkey

What's wrong feels real. Instagram AI Panic (in the form of a New Year’s resolution)