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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 40,620 ratings — published 1985
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,262 ratings — published 1964
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,885 ratings — published 1967
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,316 ratings — published 1988
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,856 ratings — published 2006
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 25,065 ratings — published 1936
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,142 ratings — published 1967
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,216 ratings — published 1981
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)
by (shelved 18 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 650 ratings — published 1992
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,822 ratings — published 1995
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,269 ratings — published 1962
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 448,424 ratings — published 1972
The Language of New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,061 ratings — published 2001
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,508 ratings — published 1957
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,012 ratings — published 2018
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (Postmillennial Pop, 15)
by (shelved 14 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.72 — 524 ratings — published 2012
Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.73 — 9,589 ratings — published 1928
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,897 ratings — published 1944
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,396 ratings — published 2010
Public Opinion (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,620 ratings — published 1922
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 3,279 ratings — published 1992
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,576 ratings — published 2010
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,521 ratings — published 1992
Remediation: Understanding New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 352 ratings — published 1998
Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 749 ratings — published 1997
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,476 ratings — published 1961
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 345 ratings — published 1986
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,117 ratings — published 2011
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,780 ratings — published 1993
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,604 ratings — published 1973
The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 331 ratings — published 1951
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 921 ratings — published 1999
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 647 ratings — published 1997
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,752 ratings — published 2019
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,142 ratings — published 2008
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.54 — 955 ratings — published 1986
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,919 ratings — published 2003
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 79,444 ratings — published 1980
Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 364 ratings — published 1994
Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos and The Wire to Mad Men and Breaking Bad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.84 — 3,572 ratings — published 2013
Optical Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 89 ratings — published 2002
Protocol: How Control Exists after Decentralization (Leonardo)
by (shelved 8 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.90 — 215 ratings — published 2004
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,515 ratings — published 2011
Television: Technology and Cultural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.73 — 208 ratings — published 1974
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,140 ratings — published 2000
Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,792 ratings — published 2019
How We Think: Digital Media and Contemporary Technogenesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.75 — 140 ratings — published 2012
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,371 ratings — published 2011
What Is Media Archaeology? (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.55 — 105 ratings — published 2012
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,826 ratings — published 2012
“Critical pessimists, such as media critics Mark Crispin Miller, Noam Chomsky, and Robert McChesney, focus primarily on the obstacles to achieving a more democratic society. In the process, they often exaggerate the power of big media in order to frighten readers into taking action. I don't disagree with their concern about media concentration, but the way they frame the debate is self-defeating insofar as it disempowers consumers even as it seeks to mobilize them. Far too much media reform rhetoric rests on melodramatic discourse about victimization and vulnerability, seduction and manipulation, "propaganda machines" and "weapons of mass deception". Again and again, this version of the media reform movement has ignored the complexity of the public's relationship to popular culture and sided with those opposed to a more diverse and participatory culture. The politics of critical utopianism is founded on a notion of empowerment; the politics of critical pessimism on a politics of victimization. One focuses on what we are doing with media, and the other on what media is doing to us. As with previous revolutions, the media reform movement is gaining momentum at a time when people are starting to feel more empowered, not when they are at their weakest.”
― Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
― Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
“There is no such thing as Frankenstein, there are only Frankensteins, as the text is ceaselessly rewritten, reproduced, refilled and redesigned”
― The Horror Reader
― The Horror Reader
