The influencing machine
by Brooke Gladstone · first published 2011
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The cohost of NPR's "On the Media" narrates, in cartoon form, two millennia of history of the influence of the media on the populace, from newspapers in Caesar's Rome to the penny press of the American Revolution to today.
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Yesterday I found a copy of The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone at Half Price Books and spent the evening enthralled. The beginning chapters cover the same ground in this article but she then goes on to relate these ideas with the modern media…
on “The Influencing Machine (2004)” ↗Currently reading "The Influencing Machine" by Brooke Gladstone. http://amzn.to/kpozga
on “Ask HN: What books are you reading” ↗…issues. It's mostly pretty good, though at times Brooke in particular strikes me as rather pointedly naive (with her cred and background, she really shouldn't be). I've got a copy of her comic/book The Influencing Machine, which is also mostly pretty good, though there were multiple occasions I wanted to reach through the page and shake Brooke.
on “Terrorists vs. Bathtubs” ↗…Gladstone of WNYC's "On the Media", where it features in her graphic, er, non-novel (graphic nonfiction? graphic book?) on the relationship between media and the public: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influencing_Machine_(book)> The title draws on a 1919 article (originally in German, translated to English in 1933), "On the Origin of the "Influencing Machine" in Schizophrenia" ("Über die Entstehung des „Beeinflussungsapparates“…
on “Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom” ↗