Media

Media studies is a discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the mass media. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences and communication studies. Researchers may also develop and employ theories and methods from disciplines including cultural studies, rhetoric (including digital rhetoric), philosophy, literary theory, psychology, political science, political economy, economics, sociol ...more

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
The Medium is the Massage
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Propaganda
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
The Society of the Spectacle
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Manifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl MarxAnti-Dühring by Friedrich EngelsOn Authority by Friedrich EngelsThe Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich EngelsSocialism by Friedrich Engels
Library of ProleWiki
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The Feminine Mystique by Betty FriedanThe Second Sex by Simone de BeauvoirSet the Night on Fire by Mike  DavisBreaking the Bias of English by Vivian R. ProbstMy Life and Times by Emerson Littlefield
Second Wave Feminism
146 books — 68 voters

Overhearing Film Music by John CapsHitchcock and Herrmann by Steven C. SmithThe Golden Hour by Matthew  SpecktorJohn Williams by Tim GreivingThe Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki by Nicolas Rapold
Film Books of 2025 (NON-FICTION)
138 books — 5 voters


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