News Media Media Literacy

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• News: Alternative  (141)
• Science: Science in Society: Skeptical Inquiry: Critical Thinking  (25)
• Society: Activism: Media  (411)

• Alternative Media Watch - A set of links to most of the alternative and/or "radical" newspapers and publications operating today.
• Brainshrub - Morning News Scan - Posts headline summaries with brief commentary and counterpoint links.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Don't Buy It - Get Media Smart - A media literacy Web site for young people that encourages users to think critically about media and become smart consumers. Activities on the site are designed to provide some of the skills and knowledge needed to question, analyze, interpret and evaluate media messages.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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."
• Jesuit Communication Project - Guides and resources to encourage, promote, and develop Media Education in schools across Canada.
• 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.
• Marshall McLuhan - A short overview of the place and influence of Marshall McLuhan in media studies.
• 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.
• 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.
• Master New Media - Know-how, resources and tools to facilitate one's ability to learn, communicate and collaborate effectively with new media technologies.
• 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.
• 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.
• Media Literacy - Presents educational information and resources focusing on the United States.
• Media Literacy Clearinghouse - Resources and workshops for K-12 educators promoting critical thinking to help students read media messages.
• Media Literacy Online Project - Biannual online publication focusing on media literacy and the influence of media in the lives of children and youth.
• MediaLiteracy - Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker and consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D.
• 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.
• Nat Whitten - "Seminal Influences in Modern American Advertising." An online essay on generative influences in advertising projects from creative director and copywriter Nat Whitten.
• 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.
• New Mexico Media Literacy Project - Aims to help people become more critical consumers of media messages. Provides teaching and multimedia resources, presentations, and training nationwide.
• Noam Chomsky - Chomsky's home page at MIT. Includes a list of his publications on topics relevant to mass media.
• 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.
• PBS Teacher Source - Media Literacy - Features related activities, classroom resources, and professional development information.
• 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.
• 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.
• PRWATCH - A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
• Techknowledge: Literate Practice and Digital Worlds - Master thesis by Bonnie Stewart. An exploration of knowledge, technology, and truth as cultural practices. Analyzing the ways knowing, being, and doing are constructed and re-constructed through cultural discourse.
• Transparency - Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news.
• Understand Media - Contains original articles, resources, blogs, podcasts, videos, and links for educators and parents interested in increasing media literacy.
• The Validity of Anti-War Criticism - In defense of anti-war criticism by Tim Wise.
• 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.
• 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."
• Z Communications - The Spirit of Resistance Lives - Offers a variety of critical writings and essays on culture and the media.