What to Read After Understanding Media
Readers who loved Understanding Media by Marshall McLuhan keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Understanding Media is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Understanding Media
Technopoly
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Convergence culture
Orality and Literacy
Hamlet on the holodeck
Technics and civilization
The medium is the massage
The image
Life on the screen
The bias of communication
No sense of place
The Gutenberg Galaxy
Manufacturing consent
War and peace in the global village
Mythologies
Simulacra and Simulation
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
Being digital
The archaic revival
Here comes everybody
Public Opinion
Against Interpretation
The disappearance of childhood
The Elements of Journalism