Last weekend I was in Toronto, and had the chance to visit the World's Largest Bookstore, Chapters, located just off of Queen Street W. While there, I looked through the various books and came across a few that I feel would be a beneficial read within Media Studies. A few of them are related to the authors we have read in class. I have greatly enjoyed the books we have read in class, and therefore feel that I will similarly enjoy these ones.
Lies We Live By; Defeating Doubletalk and Deception in Advertising, Politics, and the Media
By: Carl Hausmen
This novel looks into the issue of media deception within society. It examines how people carry on day after day, unaware of the lies they are being sold, and the misrepresentation that is taking place within advertisements, magazines and other such media. Moreover, it illustrates how these lies and deceptions have come to form the rules and laws we live by everyday.
Trust Us We're Experts
By: John Stauber
From the author of Toxic Sludge is Good for You comes the novel, Trust Us We're Experts. In this book, author John Stauber discusses the "third-party technique". This involves placing facts, statistics or opinions into the mouths of prominent figures such as doctors, professors or "experts". I am interested in reading this book because similar to Stauber's Toxic Sludge is Good for You, I feel I will gain a large insight, into the issue discussed. I want to make myself aware and knowledgeable about what is being told to me through the media.
Technopoly
By: Neil Postman
Amusing Ourselves to Death, by Neil Postman, was one of my favourite Mass Communications readings. Technopoly has a similar basis to Amusing Ourselves to Death, however I hope that it will elaborate are some ideas. It explains the influence of technology on many aspects of society, such as arts, religion, politics, education and truth.
Diet for a Poisoned Planet
By: David Steinman
I heard about this book in Toxic Sludge is Good For You and it remained in my mind. David Steinman, is a well-known environmental author and consumer advocate. I myself, am a large environmentalist and am interested in what Steinman has to say. I am already knowledgeable on the meat industry, and the events that go on behind closed doors there. I wish to further this knowledge and become informed of what exactly I am digesting.
That is all for now.
Chapters.Indigo.Lies We Live By; Defeating Doubletalk and Deception in Advertising, Politics, and the Media. 2007. Nov. 2007
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/search?keywords=Lies%20we%20Live%20by&pageSize=10
Chapters.Indigo.Technopoly. 2007. Nov. 2007
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/search?keywords=Technopoly&pageSize=10
Chapters.Indigo. Trust Us- We're Experts. 2007. Nov. 2007
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/search?keywords=Trust%20Us%20Were%20Experts&pageSize=10
Chapters.Indigo. Diet For a Poisoned Planet. 2007. Nov. 2007
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/search?keywords=diet%20for%20a%20poisoned%20planet&pageSize=10
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