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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as media)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,103 ratings — published 1988
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as media)
avg rating 4.17 — 40,005 ratings — published 1985
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as media)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,236 ratings — published 1964
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as media)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,822 ratings — published 1967
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as media)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,385 ratings — published 2012
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as media)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,796 ratings — published 1995
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as media)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,260 ratings — published 1962
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as media)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,410 ratings — published 2010
Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as media)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,781 ratings — published 2019
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as media)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,852 ratings — published 2006
Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as media)
avg rating 3.73 — 9,459 ratings — published 1928
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as media)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,460 ratings — published 1992
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as media)
avg rating 4.54 — 930 ratings — published 1986
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as media)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,929 ratings — published 1967
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as media)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,971 ratings — published 2008
Public Opinion (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as media)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,601 ratings — published 1922
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as media)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,468 ratings — published 1961
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as media)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,670 ratings — published 2019
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as media)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,113 ratings — published 2011
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as media)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,914 ratings — published 1936
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as media)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,575 ratings — published 1989
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as media)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,409 ratings — published 1962
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as media)
avg rating 3.94 — 444,376 ratings — published 1972
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as media)
avg rating 4.18 — 653,057 ratings — published 1996
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as media)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,979 ratings — published 2016
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as media)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,017 ratings — published 2010
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as media)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,065 ratings — published 1981
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as media)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,510 ratings — published 2011
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as media)
avg rating 3.93 — 66,236 ratings — published 2015
Dolores Claiborne (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as media)
avg rating 3.95 — 173,348 ratings — published 1992
The Language of New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as media)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,060 ratings — published 2001
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as media)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,111 ratings — published 2019
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as media)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,191 ratings — published 1982
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as media)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,039 ratings — published 2000
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,411 ratings — published 2019
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.49 — 370,653 ratings — published 1996
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.06 — 150,927 ratings — published 1992
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,231 ratings — published 1993
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,075 ratings — published 1997
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as media)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,286 ratings — published 2011
The Powers That Be (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as media)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,107 ratings — published 1979
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as media)
avg rating 3.49 — 5,122 ratings — published 2005
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as media)
avg rating 4.23 — 743 ratings — published 2018
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as media)
avg rating 4.22 — 836,783 ratings — published 1987
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)
by (shelved 23 times as media)
avg rating 4.02 — 343 ratings — published 1986
How to Watch TV News (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as media)
avg rating 3.77 — 716 ratings — published 1991
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as media)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,824 ratings — published 2018
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as media)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,547 ratings — published 2002
The Tommyknockers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as media)
avg rating 3.61 — 167,049 ratings — published 1987
“Give me lust, baby.
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialist ennui.
Flash.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Flash.”
― Invisible Monsters
Flash.
Give me malice.
Flash.
Give me detached existentialist ennui.
Flash.
Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
Flash.”
― Invisible Monsters
“The television is 'real'. It is immediate, it has dimension. It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It must be right. It seems so right. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn't time to protest, 'What nonsense!'.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451













