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
The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn1984 by George OrwellThe Communist Manifesto by Karl MarxManufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman
Best Left-Texts
667 books — 360 voters
The Revolution Was Televised by Alan SepinwallBreaking Bad by Lara C. StacheBreaking Bad and Cinematic Television by Angelo RestivoBreaking Down Breaking Bad by Matt WanatBreaking Bad 101 by Alan Sepinwall
All About Breaking Bad
21 books — 3 voters

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
Desperately Seeking Something by Susan SeidelmanNot Your China Doll by Katie Gee SalisburyHits, Flops, and Other Illusions by Ed ZwickKubrick by Robert P. KolkerSo Fetch by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong
Film Books of 2024 (NON-FICTION)
145 books — 6 voters

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Chris Hedges
If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichés we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war's perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war's consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaini ...more
Chris Hedges, Death of the Liberal Class

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