News - Media - Media Literacy 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. Center for Media and Democracy - A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. 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. 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. Jesuit Communication Project - Guides and resources to encourage, promote, and develop Media Education in schools across Canada. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Daily Ferret - Examines the growing power of pressure groups and their relationship with the media. Transparency - Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news. MediaLiteracy.net - Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker and consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D. 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. PLAY (Project Literacy Among Youth) - A not-for-profit sponsorship of media literacy among youth. PLAY is a scholarly yet practical experimentation with the ways in which all communication technologies can and do shape the education of youth... Christian Media Literacy Institute - Equipping parents and teachers to teach media evaluation from the point of view of Christian values. 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. Issues in Media, Literature, and the Arts - A Junior level course on Media Literacy. Some links are restricted to enrolled students for copyright reasons. 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. Feedback Media Review - A fun introduction to Media Studies for students, and a useful resource for High School Media teachers. 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. 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. Umberto Eco - Links & content referencing the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco's work and ideas. Eco is best known as an author but his critical commentary on the media and American pop-culture is first rate. Visual Culture - Wrestling - Richard Griffith's short lecture summarizes many of the main theoretical points in contemporary media and the culture of "spectacle." Introduction to 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, the culture industry, etc. Strong criticisms of the media within modern industrial society. The MIT Press - Home - The MIT press offers a great selection of new books on popular culture and culture analysis from a variety of perspectives. Margaret Herrick Library - Motion Pictures - The AMPAS library holds unique resources for the study of film & television. Communication Arts - website & magazine - Communication Arts is one of the best publications for professionals in the advertising field to showcase work. It also offers a terrific, cutting-edge website and sponsors award programs. 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. 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. McLuhan - overview - A short overview of the place and influence of Marshall McLuhan in media studies. Advertising World - A large marketing communications directory, offering advertising, public relations, sales promotion, and direct marketing links. A resource for professionals, students, and professors of advertising and marketing. Provided by the Advertising Department at The University of Texas. American Communication Journal - The American Communication Journal is the premier online scholarly refereed journal dedicated to the study of communication. The ACJ is published by the American Communication Association. TVinsite -- Broadcasting & Cable Webzine - News about global broadcasting, cable television, satellite, interactive television and new media industries. 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. Nat Whitten on cultural influences in advertising. - "Seminal Influences in Modern American Advertising." An online essay on generative influences in advertising projects from creative director & copywriter Nat Whitten. Jay Chiat Memorial - Gerry Laybourne, Oxygen CEO, notes the influence of Jay Chiat, in this memorial posting. Digitrends.net - A Chat with Jay Chiat - A brief interview with legendary adman Jay Chiat on the future of marketing & media on the web. Emigre Sample Articles - 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. The Atlantic Online - The Atlantic Monthly offers quality commentary on the media's interaction with the national scene. The Estate of Marshall McLuhan - This official not-for-profit web site is maintained by the estate of Marshall McLuhan to ensure the integrity of his name and legacy. A good site with basic history, facts, and links. Harper's Magazine Online - 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." Or so they claim. Worth a look. Noam Chomsky -- MIT home, Publications - This is Chomsky's home page at MIT. Useful for a list of his publications on topics relevant to mass media. disinformation.com -- see "media" subsection. - Disinformation collects data on current affairs, politics, new science and the 'hidden information,' ignored by corporate-owned media conglomerates. A very cool and well-done site. Not scholarly but just great. ZMAG.ORG - Alternative Media Watch Page - A great set of links to most of the alternative and/or "radical" newspapers and publications operating today. Start your search (and the revolution) here. "Mainstream Media" defined -- 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. ZMAG -- an independent monthly of critical thinking. - Zmag online offers a variety of critical writings and essays on culture and the media. Some interesting stuff collected here, but not always obvious where it will be within their website. Poke around. Music Articles - UOregon MLR - This page lists some recent scholarly articles on popular music and understanding contemporary music from a media literacy perspective. Music Video Bibliography - A list of books, articles, and sources for the study of music video and its place in consumer society. Popular Music and Society - Bibliographical links to a large number of excellent articles analyzing popular music in contemporary culture. netmation.com | netmation.net | netmation.org | netmation.tv Copyright © 1991-2005 Netmation Inc. All Rights ReservedSite Designed and Hosted by Netmation Inc.