Anton Gumenskiy, M.A.

I am an independent Media and Culture scholar. My academic interests lie where Media Studies, Anthropology and Psychology intersect. I focus on the fields of Media Ecology and Slow Communication. One of my current research projects is 'The Diaries of Silence’ experiment http://silence.tilda.ws/eng in which the participants abstain from using gadgets, digital services, and oral speech for seven days, and record their experiences in self-observation diaries. Among other things, these diaries demonstrate the crucial role of media in relations with the Self, and the paradoxical status of Silence. I have been previously affiliated to Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (2010-2022); and Faculty of International Journalism, MGIMO University (2008-2020).