Now in paperback comes the riveting account of Hollywood, big business, big egos, and corporate street fighting as bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stewart takes readers inside the epic battle for control of the world's leading ...

In The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America, the historian Daniel J. Boorstin described the image as a medium—a photograph, a movie, a representation of life, laid out on pulp or screen—that becomes, soon enough, a habit of mind." ...

Often someone like Ryan Holiday. As he explains, “I wrote this book to explain how media manipulators work, how to spot their fingerprints, how to fight them, and how (if you must) to emulate their tactics.

The pleasure machine -- The surveillance machine -- The attention machine -- The benevolence machine -- The protest machine -- The politics machine -- The disinformation machine

This is especially true when the tools that social media platforms use to curb trolling, ban hate speech, and censor pornography can also silence the speech you need to hear. [The author] provides an overview of current social media ...

Now, in Free Culture, he widens his focus to consider the diminishment of the larger public domain of ideas.

After editing The Columbia Review, staging plays at Cambridge, and a stint in the greeting-card department of Macy's, Robert Gottlieb stumbled into a job at Simon and Schuster.

This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation'.

First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a society's communication media and that community's ability to maintain control over its development.

This book describes and defines video games as their own special medium. They are not pinball from which they grew, nor movies which they sometimes resemble.