Knowledge: media literacy
See Also:
- news → alternative
- science → science in society → skeptical inquiry → critical thinking
- society → activism → media
Links
- Just Think Foundation
http://www.justthink.org/ - A media literacy organization for teachers, parents, and children teaching basic, visual, and technological literacy and encouraging young people to think critically.
- PRWATCH
http://www.prwatch.org/ - A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
- Media Education Foundation
http://www.mediaed.org/ - 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
http://www.medialit.org/ - 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
http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/JCP/ - Guides and resources to encourage, promote, and develop Media Education in schools across Canada.
- New Mexico Media Literacy Project
http://www.nmmlp.org/ - Offers training and materials in support of media literacy. Group's mission is to cultivate critical thinking and activism in media culture.
- Commercial Alert
http://www.commercialalert.org/ - 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.
- Free Minds Online: Responsible Journalism on the Web
http://www.angelfire.com/wa/QRibbon/ - On the Internet, we are all the media. Suggestions for evaluating information before you pass it on; links to valuable information sites; discussion groups.
- Transparency
http://www.transparencynow.com/index.html - Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news.
- MediaLiteracy
http://www.medialiteracy.net/ - Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker and consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D.
- Project Literacy Among Youth (PLAY)
http://www.kidsplay.org/ - 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.
- The Media Awareness Network
http://www.media-awareness.ca - 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.
- Over the Rainbow
http://medialiteracy01.tripod.com/ - 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)
http://www.childrensmediaproject.org - 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.
- Visual Culture
http://www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/online/sociol331/lec0304.html - Richard Griffith's short lecture on TV wrestling summarizes many of the main theoretical points in contemporary media and the culture of "spectacle."
- The Foucault Pages at CSUN
http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html - A good place to start if you want to apply the thinking of Michel Foucault to any study of mass media.
- Marshall McLuhan
http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/mdic/mcluhan.html - A short overview of the place and influence of Marshall McLuhan in media studies.
- Marshall McLuhan Links
http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/mcl.htm - 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
http://www.natwhitten.com/ - "Seminal Influences in Modern American Advertising." An online essay on generative influences in advertising projects from creative director & copywriter Nat Whitten.
- Emigre Design
http://www.emigre.com/Editorial.php - 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.
- Marshall McLuhan Archive
http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/ - This official not-for-profit web site is maintained by the estate of Marshall McLuhan to ensure the integrity of his name and legacy.
- Harper's Magazine
http://www.harpers.org/ - 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."
- Noam Chomsky
http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/www/chomsky.home.html - Chomsky's home page at MIT. Contains a list of his publications on topics relevant to mass media.
- Alternative Media Watch
http://www.zmag.org/altmediawatch.htm - A set of links to most of the alternative and/or "radical" newspapers and publications operating today.
- What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream - Noam Chomsky
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/chomoct97.htm - From a talk at Z Media Institute in 1997.
- Z Communications - The Spirit of Resistance Lives
http://www.zmag.org/ - Offers a variety of critical writings and essays on culture and the media.
- National Institute on Media and the Family
http://www.mediafamily.org/ - A national resource for research, education and information about the impact of the media on children and families.
- Popular Culture and American Culture Association
http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/ - 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.
- MediaStudies
http://www.mediastudies.com - 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.
- Pop Politics
http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/040210_pop/main.html - Explores why people are turning away from traditional news sources for political coverage and turning to pop culture for information.
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute - Critical Media Literacy in Times of War
http://www.tandl.vt.edu/Foundations/mediaproject/ - Engages users in critical examination of how the media covers US foreign policy focusing on Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Techknowledge: Literate Practice and Digital Worlds
http://www.egs.edu/mediaphi/main/bonnie-stewart-techknowledge.html - 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.
- Brainshrub - Morning News Scan
http://www.brainshrub.com/ - Posts headline summaries with brief commentary and counterpoint links.
- Master New Media
http://www.masternewmedia.org/ - Know-how, resources and tools to facilitate one's ability to learn, communicate and collaborate effectively with new media technologies.
- Don't Buy It - Get Media Smart
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/ - 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.
- The Frankfurt School
http://filer.case.edu/~ngb2/Pages/Intro.html - 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.
- Media Literacy
http://www1.medialiteracy.com - Presents educational information and resources focusing on the United States.
- The Validity of Anti-War Criticism
http://www.alternet.org/story/11946/ - In defense of anti-war criticism by Tim Wise.
- PBS Teacher Source - Media Literacy
http://www.pbs.org/teachers/media_lit/ - Features related activities, classroom resources, and professional development information.
- Media Literacy Online Project
http://interact.uoregon.edu/medialit/MLR/home/ - Biannual online publication focusing on media literacy and the influence of media in the lives of children and youth.
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