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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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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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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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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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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. |
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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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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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Media Literacy - http://www1.medialiteracy.com
Presents educational information and resources focusing on the United States. |
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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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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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MediaLiteracy - http://www.medialiteracy.net/
Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker and consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D. |
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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. |
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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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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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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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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. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. |