Media Studies


Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The Medium is the Massage
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Ways of Seeing
The Language of New Media
Mythologies
Propaganda
Drawing the Line by Lucy Shelton CaswellUnderstanding Comics by Scott McCloudComics & Media by Hillary L. ChuteComics and the Body by Eszter SzépEthics in the Gutter by Kate Polak
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
34 books — 3 voters

The Intelligence Explosion by James BarratThe People's Platform by Astra TaylorThe Net Delusion by Evgeny MorozovTo Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny MorozovKultur der Digitalität by Felix Stalder
Technology Criticism
10 books — 2 voters
Fic by Anne JamisonThe Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy by Sam MaggsTextual Poachers by Henry JenkinsFan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet by Karen HelleksonThe Adoring Audience by Lisa A. Lewis
Fandom and Fanfiction Studies
151 books — 31 voters


Norbert Wiener
It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.
Norbert Wiener

Often interfaces are assumed to be synonymous with media itself. But what would it mean to say that “interface” and “media” are two names for the same thing? The answer is found in the remediation or layer model of media, broached already in the introduction, wherein media are essentially nothing but formal containers housing other pieces of media. This is a claim most clearly elaborated on the opening pages of Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media. McLuhan liked to articulate this claim in ter ...more
Alexander R. Galloway

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