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Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,242 ratings — published 1964
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,831 ratings — published 1967
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,945 ratings — published 1936
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.17 — 40,088 ratings — published 1985
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,087 ratings — published 1981
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,140 ratings — published 1988
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,950 ratings — published 1967
Mythologies (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 17,414 ratings — published 1957
The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.90 — 160 ratings — published 2009
Into the Universe of Technical Images (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.28 — 236 ratings — published 1985
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.94 — 444,810 ratings — published 1972
The Culture Industry (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,881 ratings — published 1944
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,853 ratings — published 2006
Remediation: Understanding New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.69 — 352 ratings — published 1998
Manifesto cyborg. Donne, tecnologie e biopolitiche del corpo (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 3,470 ratings — published 1985
Television: Technology and Cultural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 208 ratings — published 1974
The Reality of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.71 — 205 ratings — published 1996
Regarding the Pain of Others (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.10 — 23,577 ratings — published 2003
Image - Music - Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,823 ratings — published 1977
The Language of New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,060 ratings — published 2001
The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.03 — 331 ratings — published 1951
What Is Media Archaeology? (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.56 — 106 ratings — published 2012
Illuminations: Essays and Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.29 — 12,622 ratings — published 1955
On Photography (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 58,155 ratings — published 1973
The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Volume 21) (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 132 ratings — published 2007
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,313 ratings — published 1993
Otaku: Japan's Database Animals (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.77 — 625 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 — 2,810 ratings — published 2018
A Geology of Media (Volume 46) (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.91 — 149 ratings — published 2015
Comments on the Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,389 ratings — published 1988
The Ecstasy of Communication (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 702 ratings — published 1987
The Wretched of the Screen (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.35 — 720 ratings — published 2012
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.08 — 916 ratings — published 1999
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 — 2,914 ratings — published 1967
Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.73 — 9,472 ratings — published 1928
Public Opinion (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,601 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 — 112 ratings — published 1988
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.02 — 343 ratings — published 1986
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,261 ratings — published 1962
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.99 — 78,958 ratings — published 1980
Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.06 — 49 ratings — published 2011
Gameplay Mode: War, Simulation, and Technoculture (Electronic Mediations)
by (shelved 2 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.65 — 17 ratings — published 2011
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,861 ratings — published 2018
Recursivity and Contingency (Media Philosophy Book 1)
by (shelved 2 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.86 — 80 ratings — published
Minitel: Welcome to the Internet (Platform Studies)
by (shelved 2 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.87 — 30 ratings — published
Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.92 — 96 ratings — published 2004
United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (And What We Can Do About It) (City Lights Open Media)
by (shelved 2 times as media-theory)
avg rating 3.74 — 114 ratings — published 2019
Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as media-theory)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,369 ratings — published 2022
“Surrounding every technology are institutions whose organization — not to mention their reason for being — reflects the world-view promoted by the technology. Therefore, when an old technology is assaulted by a new one, institutions are threatened. When institutions are threatened, a culture finds itself in crisis.”
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
― Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
“Cynical views of humans as a mindless mob, incapable of behaving intelligently and peacefully, are used to justify keeping us apart and denying us roles as autonomous actors.”
― Team Human
― Team Human
