Media & Communication · Media Theory
Political Economy of Media
A topic within Media Theory, itself one of 8 topics in that field and part of Media & Communication.
Reading for Media Theory
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
- BookAmusing Ourselves to DeathNeil Postman, 1985
Television reshapes public discourse into entertainment, and the resulting damage is worse than censorship because nobody objects.
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Primary sources and full treatments.
- BookManufacturing ConsentEdward Herman & Noam Chomsky, 1988
A propaganda model in which ownership, advertising and sourcing filter news without requiring any explicit censorship.
- BookUnderstanding MediaMarshall McLuhan, 1964
The medium is the message: the form of a communication technology changes society more than any content it carries.