Media

Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences and communication studies. Researchers may also develop and employ theories and methods from disciplines including cultural studies, rhetoric (including digital rhetoric), philosophy, literary theory, psychology, political science, political economy, economics, sociol ...more

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
The Medium is the Massage
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Propaganda
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
The Society of the Spectacle
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
TY, Thel by Bernie DowlingThe Last Kings of Hollywood by Paul   FischerJean-Luc Godard’s Unmade and Abandoned Projects by Michael WittSpear Garden by Thom TateCarrie's Secret by Paul Backalenick
Film Books of 2026 (NON-FICTION)
22 books — 23 voters
The Revolution Was Televised by Alan SepinwallBreaking Bad by Lara C. StacheBreaking Bad and Cinematic Television by Angelo RestivoBreaking Down Breaking Bad by Matt WanatBreaking Bad 101 by Alan Sepinwall
All About Breaking Bad
21 books — 3 voters

The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSet the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstMy Life and Times by Emerson Littlefield
Second Wave Feminism
148 books — 70 voters
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 by George H. NashAuthoritarian Drift in the United States by G. Scott GrahamAntunites Unite by Terry BirdgenawThe Rise and Fall of Antocracy by Terry BirdgenawThe Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Liberalism & Fascism - Capitalism
29 books — 19 voters

Ray Bradbury
The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Jess C. Scott
People are sheep. TV is the shepherd.
Jess C. Scott, Literary Heroin (Gluttony): A Twilight Parody

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