http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#mass-media Manipulation of; manipulation by; effects on thought, behavior, emotions, expectations, society. <ul>Recommended: <li>Ben Bagdikan, <cite>The Media Monopoly</cite> <li>Boorstin, <cite>The Image</cite> <li>Hans Magnus Enzensberger, "The Consciousness Industry" <li>Twitchell, <cite>Carnival Culture: The Trashing of Taste in America</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Cheseboro and Bertelsen, <cite>Analyzing Media</cite> <li>James Fallows, <cite>Breaking the News</cite> <li>George Gerbner, Hamid Mowlana, Herbert I. Schiller (eds.), <cite>Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control of Media Means for America and the World</cite> <li>James T. Hamilton <ul> <li><cite>All the News That's Fit to Sell: How The Market Transforms Information into News</cite> [<a href="http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s7604.html">Ch. 1</a>] <li>"News That Sells: Media Competition and News Content", <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1468109907002460"><cite>Japanese Journal of Political Science</cite> <strong>8</strong> (2007): 7--42</a> </ul> <li>Roland Marchand, <cite>Creating the Corporate Soul: The Rise of Public Relations and Corporate Imagery in American Big Business</cite> <li>Philip M. Napoli, <cite>Audience Economics: Media Institutions and the Audience Marketplace</cite> <li>Neil Netanel, "Is the Commercial Mass Media Necessary, or Even Desirable, for Liberal Democracy?" <a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/cs.CY/0109092">cs.CY/0109092</a> <li>Mark Poster, <cite>The Second Media Age</cite> <li>Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass, <cite>The Media Equation: How People Treat Computers, Television, and New Media Like Real People and Places</cite> <li>Paul Starr, <cite>The Creation of the Media</cite> <li>Karen Sternheimer, <cite>It's Not the Media: The Truth About Pop Culture's Influence on Children</cite> </ul>