Media Literacy is concerned with websites and articles and collections of scholarly material on critical thinking and viewing skills for the consumers of news, entertainment, and advertising.
A media literacy organization for teachers, parents, and children teaching basic, visual, and technological literacy and encouraging young people to think critically. http://www.justthink.org/
A nonprofit organization devoted to media research and the production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy. http://www.mediaed.org/
National advocate for media literacy education. Develops and distributes books, videos, teaching materials and other programs that promote critical thinking about the media. http://www.medialit.org/
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. http://www.nmmlp.org/
Provides media literacy support service for teachers, and others, concerned with the influence of media in the lives of children and youth. http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/HomePage
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. http://www.commercialalert.org/
On the Internet, we are all the media. Suggestions for evaluating information before you pass it on; links to valuable information sites; discussion groups. http://www.angelfire.com/wa/QRibbon/
Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news. http://www.transparencynow.com/index.html
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. http://www.kidsplay.org/
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. http://www.media-awareness.ca
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 http://medialiteracy01.tripod.com/
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. http://www.childrensmediaproject.org
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. http://home.cwru.edu/~ngb2/Pages/Intro.html
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. http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/mcl.htm
"Seminal Influences in Modern American Advertising." An online essay on generative influences in advertising projects from creative director & copywriter Nat Whitten. http://www.natwhitten.com/
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. http://www.emigre.com/Editorial.php
This official not-for-profit web site is maintained by the estate of Marshall McLuhan to ensure the integrity of his name and legacy. http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/
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." http://www.harpers.org/
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. http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/
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. http://www.mediastudies.com
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. http://www.egs.edu/mediaphi/main/bonnie-stewart-techknowledge.html
A web page designed for K-12 educators who want to learn more about media literacy and integrate it into classroom instruction. http://medialit.med.sc.edu/
Know-how, resources and tools to facilitate one's ability to learn, communicate and collaborate effectively with new media technologies. http://www.masternewmedia.org/
