Media Studies


Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
The Medium is the Massage
Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
The Revolution Was Televised: The Cops, Crooks, Slingers and Slayers Who Changed TV Drama Forever
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
Simulacra and Simulation
Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
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The People's Platform by Astra TaylorThe Net Delusion by Evgeny MorozovTo Save Everything, Click Here by Evgeny MorozovKultur der Digitalität by Felix StalderComprender los medios de comunicación by Marshall McLuhan
Technology Criticism
8 books — 1 voter

The Fangirl's Guide to the Galaxy by Sam MaggsTextual Poachers by Henry JenkinsFic by Anne JamisonConvergence Culture by Henry JenkinsFan Fiction and Fan Communities in the Age of the Internet by Karen Hellekson
Fandom and Fanfiction Studies
80 books — 13 voters

Marshall McLuhan
Students of media are persistently attacked as evaders, idly concentrating on means or processes rather than on 'substance'. The dramatic and rapid changes of 'substance' elude these accusers. Survival is not possible if one approaches his environment, the social drama, with a fixed, unchangeable point of view - the witless repetitive response to the unperceived.
Marshall McLuhan

Norbert Wiener
It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.
Norbert Wiener

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The Metaphysics of Media
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