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Hossein Derakhshan

Hossein Derakhshan

I wrote a new essay for WIRED on the dark side of mass automated personalized consumption which is…

‘The primary danger of mass personalization doesn’t lie in its effects on our minds, but rather on our bodies. As most Asian civilizations…

1 min readJul 26, 2023

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I wrote a new essay for WIRED on the dark side of mass automated personalized consumption which is…

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Hossein Derakhshan

A media theory of gaze

By Hossein Derakhshan*

6 min readNov 1, 2022

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A media theory of gaze

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Back to Radio: Saving Democracy from Television

Let’s take all election debates to radio

4 min readJun 28, 2019

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Back to Radio: Saving Democracy from Television

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Disinfo Wars

A taxonomy of information warfare

4 min readMay 9, 2019

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Disinfo Wars

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Television’s Reinvention and the Era of Post-Enlightenment

We now live in a reality that prizes emotion over reason and images over words

8 min readAug 24, 2018

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Television’s Reinvention and the Era of Post-Enlightenment

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Face It, You Just Don’t Care About the News Anymore

So what does that mean for democracy?

13 min readMay 17, 2018

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Face It, You Just Don’t Care About the News Anymore

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Rouhani’s Last Blow

The moderate Iranian president asserts himself evermore as the next Supreme Leader. Can he survive the unlikely alliance of Iran and US…

6 min readJan 19, 2018

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Rouhani’s Last Blow

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Why Is Social News Bad for Democracy

Consumption of news has become a social performance for the first time in history—and it only helps spread of disinformation

5 min readNov 10, 2017

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Why Is Social News Bad for Democracy

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How Fake Is Our Debate On ‘Fake News’?

Piqd – Danah Boyd perfectly shows what is missing most from Silicon Valley: sociologists. Her short article in Backchannel is an invitation…

1 min readApr 14, 2017

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Text vs. World Trumps

Decline of text in favour of videos means more Trumps and Berlusconis around the world. How can we save our democracies?

5 min readOct 11, 2016

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Hossein Derakhshan

Hossein Derakhshan

Researcher at Harvard's Shorenstein and MIT Media Lab. Spent 6 years in prison over blogging in Iran till 2014. hoder at hoder dot com

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