Schudson is the author of seven books and editor of three others concerning the history and sociology of American journalism, the history of United States citizenship and political participation, advertising, popular culture, book publishing, and cultural memory. His books, "Discovering the News" (Basic Books, 1978), "Advertising, the Uneasy Persuasion" (Basic Books, 1984), "The Good Citizen: A History of American Civic Life" (Free Press, 1998), "The Sociology of News" (W. W. Norton, 2003, 2011), and "Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press" (Polity Press, 2008) all have been published in Chinese translation. His other works include "Watergate in American Memory" (Basic Books, 1992); "The Power of News" (Harvard University Press, 1995), "Reading the News" (Pantheon, 1986), co-edited with Robert K. Manoff; "Rethinking Popular Culture" (University of California Press, 1991), co-edited with Chandra Mukerji; and "The Enduring Book" (vol. 5 of The History of the Book in America, University of North Carolina Press, 2009), co-edited with David Paul Nord and Joan Shelley Rubin.