Just Think Foundation:
A media literacy organization for teachers, parents, and children
teaching basic, visual, and technological literacy and encouraging
young people to think critically.
http://www.justthink.org/
PRWATCH:
A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative
reporting on the public relations industry.
http://www.prwatch.org/
Media Education Foundation:
A nonprofit organization devoted to media research and the
production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering
analytical media literacy.
http://www.mediaed.org/
Center for Media Literacy:
National advocate for media literacy education. Develops and
distributes books, videos, teaching materials and other programs
that promote critical thinking about the media.
http://www.medialit.org/
Jesuit Communication Project:
Guides and resources to encourage, promote, and develop Media
Education in schools across Canada.
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/JCP/
New Mexico Media Literacy Project:
Provides training programs and materials in support of media
literacy, especially in children. Products include examples of the
use of subliminal messages and other forms of manipulation.
http://www.nmmlp.org/
Media Literacy Online Project:
Provides media literacy support service for teachers, and others,
concerned with the influence of media in the lives of children and
youth.
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/HomePage
Commercial Alert:
Helps families, schools, and communities defend themselves against
commercialism, advertising, and marketing. Campaigns focus on
culture, education, government, and economy. Includes ideas for
action, mailing list, news, and research library.
http://www.commercialalert.org/
MediaMinds:
A Media Education production company with workshops and educational
materials for primary and secondary students in Australia: fully
edited videos, seminars for media educators, media workshops and
other production services.
http://www.mediaminds.com.au/
Free Minds Online: Responsible Journalism on the Web:
On the Internet, we are all the media. Suggestions for evaluating
information before you pass it on; links to valuable information
sites; discussion groups.
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/QRibbon/
Transparency:
Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in
TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics,
advertising and news.
http://www.transparencynow.com/index.html
MediaLiteracy:
Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker and
consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D.
http://www.medialiteracy.net/
Project Literacy Among Youth (PLAY):
A not-for-profit sponsorship of media literacy among youth. A
scholarly yet practical experimentation with the ways in which all
communication technologies can and do shape the education of youth.
http://www.kidsplay.org/
Christian Media Literacy Institute:
Equipping parents and teachers to teach media evaluation from the
point of view of Christian values.
http://www.cmli.org/
Center For Media Education:
A national non-profit organization seeking to influence
telecommunications policy making in the public interest through
research, advocacy, public education, and press activities.
http://www.cme.org
Issues in Media, Literature, and the Arts:
A Junior level course on Media Literacy. Some links are restricted
to enrolled students for copyright reasons.
http://ruby.fgcu.edu/courses/tdugas/ids3305/
The Media Awareness Network:
A bilingual, Canadian educational web site containing a wide range
of copy-right cleared resources to help teachers integrate media
literacy and web literacy into their classrooms.
http://www.media-awareness.ca
Feedback Media:
A fun introduction to Media Studies for students, and a useful
resource for High School Media teachers.
http://www.fmr.jeack.com.au/
Over the Rainbow:
A free online magazine dedicated to media literacy for the entire
family. Works to help children and adults not perpetuate stereotypes
and generalizations about people of different backgrounds. Provides
tips and activities that may help children and their parents become
more open-minded media consumers.
http://medialiteracy01.tripod.com/
Children's Media Project (CMP):
A non-profit art and education organization focusing on giving
children and youth, parents and teachers, artists and media makers a
space to use media critically and creatively.
http://www.childrensmediaproject.org
Umberto Eco:
Links and content referencing the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco's
work and ideas.
http://www.levity.com/corduroy/eco.htm
Visual Culture:
Richard Griffith's short lecture on TV wrestling summarizes many of
the main theoretical points in contemporary media and the culture of
"spectacle."
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/online/sociol331/lec0304.html
The Frankfurt School:
A good overview of the cultural critics and theorists of The
Frankfurt School. Marxist derived ideas led to concepts of
historical materialism, and the culture industry. Strong criticisms
of the media within modern industrial society.
http://home.cwru.edu/~ngb2/Pages/Intro.html
Popular Culture and American Culture Association:
The PCA and ACA are two academic organizations that focus in part on
media studies as well as culture. Open to a very wide range of
investigations on scholarly topics.
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~pcaaca/pop.html
The Foucault Pages at CSUN:
A good place to start if you want to apply the thinking of Michel
Foucault to any study of mass media.
http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html
Marshall McLuhan:
A short overview of the place and influence of Marshall McLuhan in
media studies.
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/mcluhan.html
Marshall McLuhan Links:
Professor Bernard Hibbitts selected links to biographical material
as well as links to journals, papers, projects, courses, research
centers and new releases relevant to the life and work of the late
Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan.
http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/mcl.htm
Nat Whitten:
"Seminal Influences in Modern American Advertising." An online essay
on generative influences in advertising projects from creative
director & copywriter Nat Whitten.
http://www.natwhitten.com/
Emigre Design:
Articles by or about Emigre, an experimental type foundry in
Berkeley, CA. Emigre has had an unprecedented theoretical and
real-world effect on the look of advertising around the world.
http://www.emigre.com/Editorial.php
Marshall McLuhan Archive:
This official not-for-profit web site is maintained by the estate of
Marshall McLuhan to ensure the integrity of his name and legacy.
http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/
Harper's Magazine:
The online version of the magazine: "Harper's editors sift through
the culture's vast output of information, searching for gleaming
points of significance, and each month present their findings via
such original journalistic devices."
http://www.harpers.org/
Noam Chomsky:
Chomsky's home page at MIT. Contains a list of his publications on
topics relevant to mass media.
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html
Disinformation:
A search service for those seeking factual information on current
affairs, politics and new science media stories. Features censored
and 'hidden information' which has been mis-represented by
corporate-owned media conglomerates.
http://www.disinfo.com
Alternative Media Watch:
A set of links to most of the alternative and/or "radical"
newspapers and publications operating today.
http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm
What is "Mainstream Media" - Noam Chomsky:
"The real mass media are basically trying to divert people..." says
Chomsky, as always, the agent provocateur, asking uncomfortable
questions, revealing unpleasant truths.
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/chomoct97.htm
National Institute on Media and the Family:
A national resource for research, education and information about
the impact of the media on children and families.
http://mediafamily.org/
