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
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media
Public Opinion
Glenn Beck's Common Sense by Glenn BeckSee, I Told You So by Rush LimbaughArguing with Idiots by Glenn BeckAn Inconvenient Book by Glenn BeckRush Limbaugh by Ze'ev Chafets
Worst Media Books
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Monty Python Speaks! by David       MorganSweeney! by Robert FaircloughMonty Python at Work by Michael PalinThe Callan File - The Definitive Guide by Robert FaircloughThe Prisoner by Robert Fairclough
British TV
74 books — 2 voters

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
17 books — 1 voter

Karl Lagerfeld
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
Karl Lagerfeld

Jim Morrison
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
Jim Morrison

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