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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- 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.
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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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- 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.
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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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