Adbusters magazine& website
Adbusters magazine & website. Adbusters seeks a confrontational stance, attacking the mass media and the way in which meaning is produced in our society. |
Advertising World
A large marketing communications directory, offering advertising, public relations, sales promotion, and direct marketing links. A resource for professionals, students, and professors of advertising and marketing. Provided by the Advertising Departme |
American Communication Journal
The American Communication Journal is the premier online scholarly refereed journal dedicated to the study of communication. The ACJ is published by the American Communication Association. |
Center for Media and Democracy
A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. |
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. |
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. |
Christian Media Literacy Institute
Equipping parents and teachers to teach media evaluation from the point of view of Christian values. |
Commercial Alert
Commercial Alert helps families, schools and communities defend themselves against commercialism, advertising and marketing |
Daily Ferret
Examines the growing power of pressure groups and their relationship with the media. |
Digitrends.net - A Chat with Jay Chiat
A brief interview with legendary adman Jay Chiat on the future of marketing & media on the web. |
Emigre Sample Articles
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. |
Feedback Media Review
A fun introduction to Media Studies for students, and a useful resource for High School Media teachers. |
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. |
Introduction to 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, the culture industry, etc. Strong criticisms of the media within modern industrial society. |
Issues in Media, Literature, and the Arts
A Junior level course on Media Literacy. Some links are restricted to enrolled students for copyright reasons. |
Jay Chiat Memorial
Gerry Laybourne, Oxygen CEO, notes the influence of Jay Chiat, in this memorial posting. |
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. |
Margaret Herrick Library - Motion Pictures
The AMPAS library holds unique resources for the study of film & television. |
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. |
McLuhan - overview
A short overview of the place and influence of Marshall McLuhan in media studies. |
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 Online Project
Provides media literacy support service for teachers, and others, concerned with the influence of media in the lives of children and youth. |
MediaLiteracy.net
Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker and consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D. |
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. |
Nat Whitten on cultural influences in advertising.
"Seminal Influences in Modern American Advertising." An online essay on generative influences in advertising projects from creative director & 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
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. |
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 |
PLAY (Project Literacy Among Youth)
A not-for-profit sponsorship of media literacy among youth. PLAY is a scholarly yet practical experimentation with the ways in which all communication technologies can and do shape the education of youth... |
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. |
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 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. |
The MIT Press - Home
The MIT press offers a great selection of new books on popular culture and culture analysis from a variety of perspectives. |
Transparency
Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news. |
TVinsite -- Broadcasting & Cable Webzine
News about global broadcasting, cable television, satellite, interactive television and new media industries. |
