Media Studies


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
The Medium is the Massage
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
The Society of the Spectacle
Simulacra and Simulation
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
Mythologies
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture (Studies in Culture and Communication)
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
Ways of Seeing
The Language of New Media
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture (Postmillennial Pop, 15)
Drawing the Line by Lucy Shelton CaswellUnderstanding Comics by Scott McCloudComics & Media by Hillary L. ChuteComics and the Body by Eszter SzépEthics in the Gutter by Kate Polak
Studies in Comics and Cartoons
34 books — 3 voters

The Intelligence Explosion by James BarratThe People's Platform by Astra TaylorThe Net Delusion by Evgeny MorozovTo Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny MorozovKultur der Digitalität by Felix Stalder
Technology Criticism
10 books — 2 voters

Fic by Anne JamisonThe Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy by Sam MaggsTextual Poachers by Henry JenkinsFan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet by Karen HelleksonThe Adoring Audience by Lisa A. Lewis
Fandom and Fanfiction Studies
151 books — 31 voters

Aysha Taryam
Say what you wish about media in the Arab world, but say it knowing that no media channel in the world is absolutely free.
Aysha Taryam

Marshall McLuhan
It is just when people are all engaged in snooping on themselves and one another that they become anesthetized to the whole process. Tranquilizers and anesthetics, private and corporate, become the largest business in the world just as the world is attempting to maximize every form of alert. Sound-light shows, as new cliché, are in effect mergers, retrievers of the tribal condition. It is a state that has already overtaken private enterprise, as individual businesses form into massive conglomera ...more
Marshall McLuhan, From Cliche to Archetype

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