55 books
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Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 270 times as media)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,097 ratings — published 1988
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 265 times as media)
avg rating 4.17 — 39,988 ratings — published 1985
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as media)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,236 ratings — published 1964
The Medium is the Massage (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as media)
avg rating 3.98 — 17,820 ratings — published 1967
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as media)
avg rating 3.85 — 12,384 ratings — published 2012
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as media)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,795 ratings — published 1995
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as media)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,260 ratings — published 1962
The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as media)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,409 ratings — published 2010
Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as media)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,781 ratings — published 2019
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as media)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,852 ratings — published 2006
Propaganda (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as media)
avg rating 3.73 — 9,451 ratings — published 1928
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as media)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,460 ratings — published 1992
Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as media)
avg rating 4.54 — 928 ratings — published 1986
The Society of the Spectacle (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as media)
avg rating 4.03 — 23,927 ratings — published 1967
Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as media)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,971 ratings — published 2008
Public Opinion (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as media)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,600 ratings — published 1922
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as media)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,468 ratings — published 1961
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as media)
avg rating 4.40 — 103,663 ratings — published 2019
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone On The Media (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as media)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,113 ratings — published 2011
The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as media)
avg rating 4.08 — 24,913 ratings — published 1936
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as media)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,575 ratings — published 1989
Propaganda: The Formation of Men's Attitudes (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as media)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,407 ratings — published 1962
Ways of Seeing (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as media)
avg rating 3.94 — 444,259 ratings — published 1972
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as media)
avg rating 4.18 — 652,968 ratings — published 1996
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as media)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,977 ratings — published 2016
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as media)
avg rating 3.89 — 8,016 ratings — published 2010
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as media)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,061 ratings — published 1981
The Filter Bubble: What the Internet is Hiding From You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as media)
avg rating 3.79 — 5,510 ratings — published 2011
So You've Been Publicly Shamed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as media)
avg rating 3.93 — 66,231 ratings — published 2015
Dolores Claiborne (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 27 times as media)
avg rating 3.95 — 173,317 ratings — published 1992
The Language of New Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as media)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,060 ratings — published 2001
This Is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as media)
avg rating 4.04 — 5,109 ratings — published 2019
Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as media)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,191 ratings — published 1982
No Logo (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as media)
avg rating 3.89 — 33,037 ratings — published 2000
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.05 — 97,393 ratings — published 2019
The Green Mile (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.49 — 370,553 ratings — published 1996
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.06 — 150,880 ratings — published 1992
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.00 — 133,213 ratings — published 1993
Covering Islam: How the Media and the Experts Determine How We See the Rest of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as media)
avg rating 4.10 — 2,075 ratings — published 1997
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as media)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,286 ratings — published 2011
The Powers That Be (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as media)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,107 ratings — published 1979
Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as media)
avg rating 3.49 — 5,122 ratings — published 2005
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as media)
avg rating 4.23 — 743 ratings — published 2018
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as media)
avg rating 4.22 — 836,605 ratings — published 1987
Gramophone, Film, Typewriter (Writing Science)
by (shelved 23 times as media)
avg rating 4.02 — 343 ratings — published 1986
How to Watch TV News (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as media)
avg rating 3.77 — 716 ratings — published 1991
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as media)
avg rating 4.05 — 13,820 ratings — published 2018
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as media)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,456 ratings — published 2002
The Tommyknockers (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as media)
avg rating 3.61 — 167,029 ratings — published 1987
“(Media question to Beatles during first U.S. tour 1964)
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
―
"How do you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland.”
―
“The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451













