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
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
9 books — 6 voters
1984 by George OrwellAnimal Farm by George OrwellFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyThe Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian AndersenThe Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Fake news
86 books — 9 voters

Russell Brand
Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of ...more
Russell Brand

Steve Maraboli
How would your life be different if...You were conscious about the food you ate, the people you surround yourself with, and the media you watch, listen to, or read? Let today be the day...You pay attention to what you feed your mind, your body, and your life. Create a nourishing environment conducive to your growth and well-being today.
Steve Maraboli, The Power Of One

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