{"product_id":"the-digital-reversal-thread-saga-of-media-evolution-paperback","title":"The Digital Reversal. Thread-saga of media evolution - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrey Mir\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe new media environment is fundamentally restructuring and altering society. People should check out \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Reversal\u003c\/i\u003e, which is about the way digital media flips a lot of things on its head, and how it seems to be happening at a faster and faster pace-the pace of crises.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Joseph Weisenthal, \u003ci\u003eBloomberg\u003c\/i\u003e, on \u003ci\u003eThe Ezra Klein Show\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrey Mir's \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Reversal\u003c\/i\u003e, building on his recent series of books with pathbreaking analyses, is so far ahead of any other scholarly work in understanding what's going on in the media world, and hence the world per se, today, that it hurts even as it brilliantly elucidates. You want to know where we are and perhaps what to do? Read \u003ci\u003eThe Digital Reversal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Paul Levinson, author of \u003ci\u003eMcLuhan in an Age of Social Media\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe future of the book is the blurb, said Marshall McLuhan. As the future arrives, this book is written in tweets-1,295 of them. Gathered in thread-chapters, they explore and explain what media evolution does to us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCars help people get around faster. But when their use hits certain limits, their effect of speed and mobility reverses into traffic jams. And so it is with any medium: when it reaches its extremes or limits, it reverses its effect into the opposite.\u003cbr\u003eThis is what we face now. Digital media have sped up human interaction with the world to its limit-instantaneity. No wonder everything is now reversing into its opposite, merging into one global, cataclysmic Digital Reversal.\u003cbr\u003eThe abundance of signals reverses into noise. The abundance of facts reverses into fakes. Free access to self-expression leads to abuse by trolls and bad actors and reverses into censorship. The revolt of the public reverses into anarcho-tyranny.\u003cbr\u003eText reverses into texting, and texting reverses print literacy into digital orality. Abstraction reverses into anecdotal evidence. Feelings reverse into intensities. Boosted by the overload of empathy, identity reverses into credentials.\u003cbr\u003eJournalism reverses into postjournalism. The overload of news reverses into news avoidance. Reading books reverses into asking the search box. Knowledge reverses into knowing. Academia flips into activism. Objective truth reverses into crowdsourced importance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEverything is media effects. In the digital era, the study of media effects is the study of reversals. Reversals are everywhere. Like verses in a saga, 1,295 tweets across 248 pages cover the development of media from orality to literacy and now in reverse-to digital orality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlso read other books by Andrey Mir - available on Amazon: \u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eThe Viral Inquisitor and Other Essays on Postjournalism and Media Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e (2024)\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eDigital Future in the Rearview Mirror: Jaspers' Axial Age and Logan's Alphabet Effect \u003c\/i\u003e(2024)\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003ePostjournalism and the Death of Newspapers: The Media After Trump: Manufacturing Anger and Polarization\u003c\/i\u003e (2020)\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ci\u003eHuman as Media: The Emancipation of Authorship\u003c\/i\u003e (2014)\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 250\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.53 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52960377176371,"sku":"9781777358969","price":33.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/1a7QvVFZcX9781777358969.webp?v=1768485223","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-digital-reversal-thread-saga-of-media-evolution-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}