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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,398 ratings — published 1985
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,762 ratings — published 1967
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,215 ratings — published 1964
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.23 — 24,885 ratings — published 1988
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,846 ratings — published 2006
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,762 ratings — published 1936
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,756 ratings — published 1967
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 16,890 ratings — published 1981
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,761 ratings — published 1995
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)
by (shelved 18 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.22 — 643 ratings — published 1992
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,254 ratings — published 1962
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.94 — 440,696 ratings — published 1972
The Language of New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,058 ratings — published 2001
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,319 ratings — published 1957
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (Postmillennial Pop, 15)
by (shelved 14 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.72 — 517 ratings — published 2012
Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.74 — 9,356 ratings — published 1928
Public Opinion (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,592 ratings — published 1922
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 — 8,374 ratings — published 2010
Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 3,958 ratings — published 2018
Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,209 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 — 33,253 ratings — published 2010
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.96 — 5,393 ratings — published 1992
Remediation: Understanding New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.69 — 352 ratings — published 1998
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,450 ratings — published 1961
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 340 ratings — published 1986
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,109 ratings — published 2011
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,869 ratings — published 1944
The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.03 — 327 ratings — published 1951
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.00 — 132,477 ratings — published 1993
Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices (Culture, Media and Identities Series)
by (shelved 11 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.06 — 738 ratings — published 1997
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.08 — 912 ratings — published 1999
Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.93 — 641 ratings — published 1997
Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.04 — 12,608 ratings — published 2019
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.87 — 57,429 ratings — published 1973
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.78 — 7,141 ratings — published 2008
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.53 — 908 ratings — published 1986
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,079 ratings — published 2003
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography [Paperback] (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,378 ratings — published 1980
Media Virus!: Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 363 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 — 3,548 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 3.91 — 213 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 — 5,501 ratings — published 2011
Television: Technology and Cultural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.73 — 207 ratings — published 1974
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.89 — 32,935 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 — 5,764 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 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 — 4,812 ratings — published 2012
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as media-studies)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,967 ratings — published 2008
Media and Cultural Studies: Key Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as media-studies)
avg rating 3.99 — 157 ratings — published 2001
“Treat your mind like a museum, not a warehouse”
― The 30 Day Media Diet
― The 30 Day Media Diet
“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
