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Andrey Mir

Andrey Mir is a media ecologist once described as “McLuhan on steroids.” Adhering to the much-condemned media deterministic approach, Mir has developed a number of groundbreaking concepts for understanding media, including postjournalism, digital orality, the viral editor/viral inquisitor, and the Digital Rush. He is the author of several books, including The Viral Inquisitor (2024), Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror (2024), Postjournalism and the death of newspapers (2020), and Human as media (2014). Mir holds degrees in journalism, linguistics, communication, and culture. He lives in Toronto. Mir runs the blog Media Determinism. X/Twitter: @Andrey4Mir.
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The Benefits of Platform Monopoly

Andrey Mir
Andrey Mir writes that antitrust scholarship and enforcement seeking to break up platform monopolies overlook the benefits that these platforms provide because they are monopolies. He says the community must keep this in mind as it seeks to alleviate harms that any monopoly incurs to the economy.

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