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Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. The media after Trump: manufacturing anger and polarization Kindle Edition

by Andrey Mir (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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"Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers may be the most profound analysis of the subject since the last time Marshall McLuhan wrote about it. Mir describes a universe in which the news now chases the reader rather than the other way around. Everything is told in a wonderful epigrammatic style – you will be digging up quotes from it for years." – Martin Gurri, author of “The Revolt of the Public”.

"The most important book in media theory that has been written in 40 years." – Paul Levinson, author of “Digital McLuhan”.

"Andrey Mir’s Postjournalism offers a powerful, sweeping narrative of how news media have evolved over the centuries." – Arnold Kling, economist, author of “Crisis of Abundance” and “Invisible Wealth”.

"In his book Postjournalism and the Death of Newspapers, Mir is here partly to praise newspapers, partly to bury them, but mostly to explain why their death is (a) inevitable and (b) a very big deal. He communicates this with a history of news media and a blizzard of concepts and neologisms." – Danyl Mclauchlan, “The Spinoff,” New Zealand.

"As Mir argues, this change in the economic structure of the news media has quietly transformed journalism from a theoretically neutral means of “manufacturing consent” into a political cause that people are rallied into supporting, usually by inciting them to some form of outrage." – Murtaza Hussain, “The Intercept”.

...This book introduced the notion of "postjournalism" into contemporary media criticism.
“Postjournalism and the death of newspapers” unveils the economic and cultural mechanisms of agenda-setting in the news media at the final stage of their historical existence. As advertising money has fled to the internet, the news media have been forced to switch to another source of funding – seeking readers' support. But they can no longer sell news because news is already known to people through social media newsfeeds. However, when the news is triggering, people still want somebody authoritative to validate this news' significance within certain value systems. The media have switched from news supply to news validation.
Since only triggering news requires validation, the media are incentivized to select and supply agitating news. They inevitably transition to value-based coverage, declining the standards of journalism established in the 20th century, when the media were generously funded by advertising.
The need to pursue reader revenue, with the news no longer being a commodity, is pushing journalism to mutate into postjournalism. Media outlets are increasingly soliciting subscriptions as donations to a cause. Journalism wanted its picture to match the world; postjournalism wants the world to match its picture.
The ad-driven media manufactured consent. The reader-driven media manufacture anger. The former served consumerism. The latter serve polarization. The book explores polarization as a media effect.
Other books by Andrey Mir:
  • Human as Media. The Emancipation of Authorship. (2014).
  • Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers’ Axial Age and Logan’s Alphabet Effect. (2024).
  • The Viral Inquisitor and other essays on postjournalism and media ecology (2024).
Twitter: @Andrey4Mir
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  • David Thomson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps the Most Important Book of Our Era
    Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2021
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    Journalism 101 is not popular with either lefties or conservatives, claims Andrey Mir. Subscribers pay most of the bills of media outlets in the United States. They are activists and demand editors cave in to their absurd ideological demands. This book is upsetting. The author seems quite pessimistic. I'm making sure to invest enough time to clearly understand Mir's arguments. You should do likewise.
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  • Kindle Customer
    4.0 out of 5 stars The news
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2022
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    A work that reviews the history of newspapers and its various business models. Describes the current situation and the relationship with journalism. Are newspapers dead, but just haven't caught on? For that matter has journalism died as well? As a longtime consumer of newspapers (Almost continuous since living on my own 1971) the subject is of interest.

    I received a complementary copy via #GoodreadsGiveaway.
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