Media Studies


Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
The Medium is the Massage
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
The Society of the Spectacle
Simulacra and Simulation
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Ways of Seeing
The Language of New Media
Mythologies
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Mark Duffett
The 'knowing field'... denotes a place that is both inside each of us, and something notionally shared by everyone else in the fan base. ...more
Mark Duffett, Understanding Fandom: An Introduction to the Study of Media Fan Culture

When ideas are detached from the media used to transmit them, they are also cut off from the historical circumstances that shape them, and it becomes difficult to perceive the changing context within which they must be viewed.
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: Communications and Cultural Transformations in Early Modern Europe

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A collaborative reading list for understanding, surviving, and fighting in Trump's America. …more
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