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Recommended media reading list

The following selection of 15 titles is taken from I Want Media‘s comprehensive media reading list. (Republished here with kind permission)

Media reading list

Rupert Murdoch, The Master Mogul of Fleet Street
by Vanity Fair

Vanity Fair’s “no-holds-barred” e-book rounds up 20 stories from the magazine, tracing the rise of media mogul Rupert Murdoch “and illuminating the roots of his current predicament.”

Phone Hacking: How the Guardian broke the story
by The Guardian

This e-book from the Guardian promises to deliver the “definitive guide” to the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, by the newspaper that broke the story.

Deadline Artists: America’s Greatest Newspaper Columns
by John Avlon, Jesse Angelo, Errol Louis

Editors from Newsweek/Daily Beast, The Daily and NY1 celebrate “the relevance” of the newspaper column with this anthology of “an American art form.”

The Innovator’s Cookbook: Essentials for Inventing What Is Next
by Steven Johnson

Steven Johnson rounds up insights from the likes of Google’s Marisa Mayer and Twitter’s Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey for this “foundational text” on the subject of innovation.

Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live
by Jeff Jarvis

Despite the warnings of privacy advocates, the Internet and our new sense of publicness do not make us more vulnerable to threats, argues media blogger Jeff Jarvis.

The Ascent of Media: From Gilgamesh to Google via Gutenberg
by Roger Parry

Roger Parry traces mankind’s journey from clay tablets to Apple’s iPad. Traditional media is not declining, he asserts. Instead, it is “on the cusp of a new era in which it will evolve and thrive.”

The Digital Divide: Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking
by Mark Bauerlein

This collection of essays on the perils and promise of social media rounds up writings by Steven Johnson, Douglas Rushkoff, Clay Shirky and other top thinkers.

The Fall of the House of Forbes: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire
by Stewart Pinkerton

Stewart Pinkerton, a former managing editor of Forbes magazine, promises to reveal the “hubris, greed, personal quirks and awful decisions that helped bring down a media icon.”

Newspaperman: Inside the News Business at The Wall Street Journal
by Warren H. Phillips

Warren Phillips, former publisher of the Wall Street Journal and CEO of Journal owner Dow Jones & Co., offers insights about American business, politics and journalism.

Curation Nation: How to Win in a World Where Consumers Are Creators
by Steven Rosenbaum

Steven Rosenbaum, CEO of video aggregator Magnify.net, has written “an indispensible guide to the brave new media world,” according to Arianna Huffington.

The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry)
by Siva Vaidhyanathan
Siva Vaidhyanathan, a University of Virginia media studies and law professor, “exposes the dark side of our Google fantasies, raising red flags about issues of intellectual property.”

In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives
by Steven Levy

Wired magazine’s Steven Levy explores Google’s groundbreaking search engine and profitable online ad-brokering business, with full cooperation of the Internet giant’s top management.

The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You
by Eli Pariser

Websites from Google to Yahoo News are now increasingly personalized, notes MoveOn.org’s Eli Pariser. “They filter information to show you the stuff they think you want to see.”

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other
by Sherry Turkle

MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that people are increasingly functioning without face-to-face contact, despite all the talk of connection via texts, e-mails and social networks.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by James Gleick

James Gleick shows how today’s deluge of “news, images, blogs and tweets” has become the modern era’s defining quality—“the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.”

Visit I Want Media’s full Media reading list and feel welcome to suggest more books in the comments section below!

Other noteworthy reading lists:

A computational journalism reading list, by Jonathan Gray

7 books that journalists working online should read?, by Paul Bradshaw

11 brilliant books for multimedia producers, journalists and entrepreneurs, by Adam Westbrook

 

 

 

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