Media Studies


Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
The Medium is the Massage
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
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
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
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (Postmillennial Pop, 15)
Aysha Taryam
Freedom of the press can never be the licence to say anything one desires. Freedom of the press is not the freedom to slander and attack and must never be used to fight other people’s wars. It does not mean manipulating a story into speaking your views. One might think it common sense but in the world of journalism a lot of what makes sense is lost to the lure of favouritism, greed and fame. Sadly, in this truth-telling business truth is hard to find.
Aysha Taryam

Marshall McLuhan
It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the largest business in the world just as the world is attempting to maximize every form of alert. Sound-light shows, as new cliché, are in effect mergers, retrievers of the tribal condition. It is a state that has already overtaken private enterprise, as individual businesses form into massive conglomera ...more
Marshall McLuhan, From Cliche to Archetype

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