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
Marshall McLuhan
Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rather than on 'substance'. The dramatic and rapid changes of 'substance' elude these accusers. Survival is not possible if one approaches his environment, the social drama, with a fixed, unchangeable point of view - the witless repetitive response to the unperceived. ...more
Marshall McLuhan

Vilém Flusser
The modern distinction between science, politics (including technology) and art is both unfeasible and pernicious
Vilém Flusser

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