| 1. | 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.
www.justthink.org |
| 2. | PRWATCH | | | A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry.
www.prwatch.org |
| 3. | 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.
www.mediaed.org |
| 4. | 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.
www.medialit.org |
| 5. | Jesuit Communication Project | | | Guides and resources to encourage, promote, and develop Media Education in schools across Canada.
interact.uoregon.edu |
| 6. | New Mexico Media Literacy Project | | | Provides training programs and materials in support of media literacy, especially in children. Products include examples of the use of subliminal messages and other forms of manipulation.
www.nmmlp.org |
| 7. | 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.
www.commercialalert.org |
| 8. | MediaMinds | | | A Media Education production company with workshops and educational materials for primary and secondary students in Australia: fully edited videos, seminars for media educators, media workshops and other production services.
www.mediaminds.com.au |
| 10. | Transparency | | | Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news.
www.transparencynow.com |
| 11. | MediaLiteracy | | | Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker and consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D.
www.medialiteracy.net |
| 12. | 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.
www.kidsplay.org |
| 13. | Center For Media Education | | | A national non-profit organization seeking to influence telecommunications policy making in the public interest through research, advocacy, public education, and press activities.
www.cme.org |
| 15. | 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.
www.media-awareness.ca |
| 16. | 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.
medialiteracy01.tripod.com |
| 17. | 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.
www.childrensmediaproject.org |
| 18. | Umberto Eco | | | Links and content referencing the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco's work and ideas.
www.levity.com |
| 20. | 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.
home.cwru.edu |
| 21. | 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.
www.csun.edu |
| 22. | Marshall McLuhan | | | A short overview of the place and influence of Marshall McLuhan in media studies.
www.regent.edu |
| 23. | 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.
www.law.pitt.edu |
| 24. | Nat Whitten | | | copywriter Nat Whitten.
www.natwhitten.com |
| 25. | 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.
www.emigre.com |
| 26. | 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.
www.marshallmcluhan.com |
| 28. | Noam Chomsky | | | Chomsky's home page at MIT. Contains a list of his publications on topics relevant to mass media.
web.mit.edu |
| 29. | Disinformation | | | A search service for those seeking factual information on current affairs, politics and new science media stories. Features censored and 'hidden information' which has been mis-represented by corporate-owned media conglomerates.
www.disinfo.com |
| 31. | - Noam Chomsky | | | says Chomsky, as always, the agent provocateur, asking uncomfortable questions, revealing unpleasant truths.
www.zmag.org |
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