Media Literacy
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Master New Media
- Know-how, resources and tools to facilitate one's ability to learn, communicate and collaborate effectively with new media technologies.
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- 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.
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- Media Literacy Clearinghouse
- Resources and workshops for K-12 educators promoting critical thinking to help students read media messages.
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- Media Literacy Project
- Aims to help people become more critical consumers of media messages. Provides teaching and multimedia resources, presentations, and training nationwide.
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- Media Smarts
- 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.
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- MediaStudies
- Helps advance research and education in media studies and critical thinking. The site serves as a hub providing links to international news and media studies sites.
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- Nat Whitten
- "Seminal Influences in Modern American Advertising." An online essay on generative influences in advertising projects from creative director and copywriter Nat Whitten.
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- Noam Chomsky
- Chomsky's home page at MIT. Includes a list of his publications on topics relevant to mass media.
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- PRWATCH
- A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Transparency
- Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news.
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- Understand Media
- Contains original articles, resources, blogs, podcasts, videos, and links for educators and parents interested in increasing media literacy.
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- Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
- Engages users in critical examination of how the media covers US foreign policy focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan.
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- Earshot Media
- Shows how they market and promote alternative, indie, punk hardcore and metal music online. Most notable for interview and review links, FAQ, and a model for similar sites.
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- Frontline: The Merchants of Cool
- Journeys into the world of the marketers of popular culture to teenagers. They are the merchants of cool: the creators and sellers of popular culture, who have made teens the hottest consumer demographic in America.
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- Popular Music and Society
- Bibliographical links to a large number of articles analyzing popular music in contemporary culture.
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