9 books
—
1 voter
Discover new books on Goodreads
Meet your next favorite book
Media Theory Books
Showing 1-50 of 955
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,324 ratings — published 1964
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 18,047 ratings — published 1967
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 42,236 ratings — published 1985
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,748 ratings — published 1981
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,178 ratings — published 1936
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,849 ratings — published 1988
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 24,739 ratings — published 1967
The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 165 ratings — published 2009
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,791 ratings — published 1957
Into the Universe of Technical Images (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 237 ratings — published 1985
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.95 — 462,439 ratings — published 1972
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,959 ratings — published 1944
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,864 ratings — published 2006
Remediation: Understanding New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 355 ratings — published 1998
Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,650 ratings — published 1985
Television: Technology and Cultural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.72 — 216 ratings — published 1974
The Reality of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.72 — 211 ratings — published 1996
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 25,019 ratings — published 2003
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 34,060 ratings — published 2010
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 927 ratings — published 1999
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,848 ratings — published 1977
The Language of New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,065 ratings — published 2001
Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.72 — 9,948 ratings — published 1928
The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 332 ratings — published 1951
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 82,409 ratings — published 1980
What Is Media Archaeology? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.54 — 107 ratings — published 2012
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,802 ratings — published 1955
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 14,451 ratings — published 2018
Recursivity and Contingency (Media Philosophy Book 1)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 86 ratings — published
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,034 ratings — published 1986
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 61,153 ratings — published 1973
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Volume 21) (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 134 ratings — published 2007
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 136,098 ratings — published 1993
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.76 — 677 ratings — published 2001
New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,879 ratings — published 2018
A Geology of Media (Volume 46) (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 154 ratings — published 2015
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,429 ratings — published 1988
The Ecstasy of Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 721 ratings — published 1987
The Wretched of the Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.34 — 743 ratings — published 2012
Media Theory in Japan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.80 — 5 ratings — published
Travels in Hyperreality (Harvest Book)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,941 ratings — published 1967
Public Opinion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,665 ratings — published 1922
Laws of Media: The New Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 130 ratings — published 1990
Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.89 — 113 ratings — published 1988
Preface to Plato (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.26 — 251 ratings — published 1963
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,272 ratings — published 1982
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 350 ratings — published 1986
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,279 ratings — published 1962
Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 49 ratings — published 2011
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 227,268 ratings — published 2024
“If we don't truly know what something is programmed to do, chances are it is programming us. Once that happens, we may as well be machines ourselves.”
― Team Human
― Team Human
“I'm not sure what cyberpunk catechism means. It's making me think of the late-cap mediums being embedded with hermeneutics-of-suspicion trigger mechanisms. Is that what she means? Is she randomly talking about how the late-cap mediums made one want to search until they confirmed some sort of bias. Do you catch my westerlies? I don't know if I am expressing this very well. I mean that the mediums no longer informed or entertained like the mediums of yore. The mediums of late-cap only appeared to inform or entertain. Underneath the surface, one found that the mediums were built to make one say, “Aha! So that is what other people are like!”
―
―