Anton Gumenskiy
Visiting Lecturer Moscow School of Social and Economic SciencesMedia Studies
Biographical Info
Anton Gumenskiy is an independent media scholar. His academic interests lie where Media Studies, Anthropology and Psychology intersect. He focuses on the fields of Media Ecology and Slow Communication. His ongoing research project 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.
Previously, Anton was a lecturer in Media Studies, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University (2010-2022) as well as a lecturer in Social and Cross-Cultural Communications, Faculty of International Journalism, MGIMO University (2008-2020).