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

Media Books

Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man

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

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide

Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another

Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media

Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media

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The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb Tsipursky

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205 books — 103 voters

Olympus Seen on a Clear Day by Robert Castle

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Film Books of 2026 (NON-FICTION)

54 books — 27 voters

Manifesto of the Communist Party, and Principles of Communism by Karl Marx

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels

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17 books — 1 voter

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9 books — 6 voters

Guidance to Death by Daniel V. Meier Jr.

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37 books — 2 voters

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“ The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the gate, individuals still have bars and elaborate internal security systems. Americans spend more than thirty billion dollars a year on security. When I have stayed with friends in these communities and inquired as to whether all the security is in response to an actual danger I am told “not really," that it is the fear of threat rather than a real threat that is the catalyst f The growing number of gated communities in our nation is but one example of the obsession with safety. With guards at the gate, individuals still have bars and elaborate internal security systems. Americans spend more than thirty billion dollars a year on security. When I have stayed with friends in these communities and inquired as to whether all the security is in response to an actual danger I am told “not really," that it is the fear of threat rather than a real threat that is the catalyst for an obsession with safety that borders on madness. Culturally we bear witness to this madness every day. We can all tell endless stories of how it makes itself known in everyday life. For example, an adult white male answers the door when a young Asian male rings the bell. We live in a culture where without responding to any gesture of aggression or hostility on the part of the stranger, who is simply lost and trying to find the correct address, the white male shoots him, believing he is protecting his life and his property. This is an everyday example of madness. The person who is really the threat here is the home owner who has been so well socialized by the thinking of white supremacy, of capitalism, of patriarchy that he can no longer respond rationally. White supremacy has taught him that all people of color are threats irrespective of their behavior. Capitalism has taught him that, at all costs, his property can and must be protected. Patriarchy has taught him that his masculinity has to be proved by the willingness to conquer fear through aggression; that it would be unmanly to ask questions before taking action. Mass media then brings us the news of this in a newspeak manner that sounds almost jocular and celebratory, as though no tragedy has happened, as though the sacrifice of a young life was necessary to uphold property values and white patriarchal honor. Viewers are encouraged feel sympathy for the white male home owner who made a mistake. The fact that this mistake led to the violent death of an innocent young man does not register; the narrative is worded in a manner that encourages viewers to identify with the one who made the mistake by doing what we are led to feel we might all do to “protect our property at all costs from any sense of perceived threat. " This is what the worship of death looks like. ...more ”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions

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“ It's in our biology to trust what we see with our eyes. This makes living in a carefully edited, overproduced and photoshopped world very dangerous. ...more ”
― Brené Brown

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