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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Media Literacy Clearinghouse - http://www.frankwbaker.com/
Resources and workshops for K-12 educators promoting critical thinking to help students read media messages. |
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New Mexico Media Literacy Project - http://www.nmmlp.org/
Aims to help people become more critical consumers of media messages. Provides teaching and multimedia resources, presentations, and training nationwide. |
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Brainshrub - Morning News Scan - http://www.brainshrub.com/
Posts headline summaries with brief commentary and counterpoint links. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Marshall McLuhan Links - http://faculty.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. |
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Understand Media - http://www.understandmedia.com/
Contains original articles, resources, blogs, podcasts, videos, and links for educators and parents interested in increasing media literacy. |
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Jesuit Communication Project - http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/JCP/
Guides and resources to encourage, promote, and develop Media Education in schools across Canada. |
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MediaLiteracy - http://www.medialiteracy.net/
Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker and consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D. |
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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." |
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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. |
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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. |
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What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream - Noam Chomsky - http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm
From a talk at Z Media Institute in 1997. |
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PBS Teacher Source - Media Literacy - http://www.pbs.org/teachers/media_lit/
Features related activities, classroom resources, and professional development information. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Validity of Anti-War Criticism - http://www.alternet.org/story/11946/
In defense of anti-war criticism by Tim Wise. |
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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. |
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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." |
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Nat Whitten - http://www.natwhitten.com/
"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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Media Literacy - http://www1.medialiteracy.com
Presents educational information and resources focusing on the United States. |
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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. |