Media Literacy

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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• Emigre Design - Articles by or about Emigre, an experimental type news foundry in Berkeley, CA. Emigre has had an news unprecedented theoretical and real-world effect on the look news of advertising around the world.
• What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream - Noam Chomsky - From a talk at Z Media Institute in media 1997.
• Jesuit Communication Project - Guides and resources to encourage, promote, and develop news Media Education in schools across Canada.
• The Validity of Anti-War Criticism - In defense of anti-war criticism by Tim Wise.
• 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.
• Media Education Foundation - A nonprofit organization devoted to media research and media literacy the production of resources to aid educators and media literacy others in fostering analytical media literacy.
• National Institute on Media and the Family - A national resource for research, education and information media about the media literacy impact of the media on children media and families.
• Nat Whitten - "Seminal Influences in Modern American Advertising." An online media essay on media generative influences in advertising projects from media creative director and copywriter media Nat Whitten.
• Brainshrub - Morning News Scan - Posts headline summaries with brief commentary and counterpoint links.
• Transparency - Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings news in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, news advertising and news.
• Over the Rainbow - A free online magazine dedicated to media literacy for the media literacy entire family. Works to help children and adults not perpetuate media literacy stereotypes and generalizations about people of different backgrounds. Provides tips media literacy and activities that may help children and their
• 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.
• Master New Media - Know-how, resources and tools to facilitate one\\'s ability media to learn, media literacy communicate and collaborate effectively with new media media technologies.
• Commercial Alert - Helps families, schools, and communities defend themselves against commercialism, advertising, media literacy and marketing. Campaigns focus on culture, education, government, and economy. media literacy Includes ideas for action, mailing list, news, and research library.
• Visual Culture - Richard Griffith\\'s short lecture on TV wrestling summarizes media literacy many media literacy of the main theoretical points in contemporary media literacy media and media literacy the culture of "spectacle."
• Don't Buy It - Get Media Smart - 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 evalua
• Z Communications - The Spirit of Resistance Lives - Offers a variety of critical writings and essays on culture media literacy and the media.
• Marshall McLuhan - A short overview of the place and influence of Marshall media literacy McLuhan in media studies.
• MediaLiteracy - Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker news and consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D.
• Marshall McLuhan Links - Professor Bernard Hibbitts selected links to biographical material as well media as links to journals, papers, projects, courses, research centers and media new releases relevant to the life and work of the media late Canadian communications theorist Marshall McLuhan.
• Noam Chomsky - Chomsky\\'s home page at MIT. Includes a list media of his publications on topics relevant to mass media media.
• Harper's Magazine - The online version of the magazine: "Harper\\'s editors sift through media the culture\\'s vast output of information, searching for gleaming points media of significance, and each month present their findings via such media original journalistic devices."
• Free Minds Online: Responsible Journalism on the Web - On the Internet, we are all the media. media literacy Suggestions news for evaluating information before you pass it media literacy on; links news to valuable information sites; discussion groups.
• Media Literacy Clearinghouse - Resources and workshops for K-12 educators promoting critical thinking to help students read media messages.
• The Frankfurt School - A good overview of the cultural critics and theorists of news The Frankfurt School. Marxist derived ideas led to concepts of news historical materialism, and the culture industry. Strong criticisms of news the media within modern industrial society.
• Center for Media Literacy - National advocate for media literacy education. Develops and media distributes books, news videos, teaching materials and other programs media that promote critical thinking news about the media.
• Just Think Foundation - A media literacy organization for teachers, parents, and media literacy children teaching basic, visual, and technological literacy and media literacy encouraging young people to think critically.
• Media Literacy Online Project - Biannual online publication focusing on media literacy and media literacy the media influence of media in the lives of media literacy children and media youth.
• PRWATCH - A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative media reporting on the public relations industry.
• MediaStudies - Helps advance research and education in media studies and critical media literacy thinking. The site serves as a hub providing links to media literacy international news and media studies sites.
• Techknowledge: Literate Practice and Digital Worlds - Master thesis by Bonnie Stewart. An exploration news of knowledge, technology, and truth as cultural practices. news Analyzing the ways knowing, being, and doing are news constructed and re-constructed through cultural discourse.
• Marshall McLuhan Archive - This official not-for-profit web site is maintained by media literacy the news estate of Marshall McLuhan to ensure the media literacy integrity of news his name and legacy.
• New Mexico Media Literacy Project - Aims to help people become more critical consumers of media media messages. Provides teaching and multimedia resources, presentations, and training nationwide.
• The Foucault Pages at CSUN - A good place to start if you want to apply media literacy the thinking of Michel Foucault to any study of mass media literacy media.
• Popular Culture and American Culture Association - The PCA and ACA are two academic organizations that focus media in part on media studies as well as culture. Open media to a very wide range of investigations on scholarly topics.
• Media Literacy - Presents educational information and resources focusing on the media literacy United States.
• PBS Teacher Source - Media Literacy - Features related activities, classroom resources, and professional development information.
• Understand Media - Contains original articles, resources, blogs, podcasts, videos, and links for news educators and parents interested in increasing media literacy.
• Alternative Media Watch - A set of links to most of media the alternative and/or "radical" newspapers and publications operating media today.
• The Media Awareness Network - A bilingual, Canadian educational web site containing a wide range news of copy-right cleared resources to help teachers integrate media literacy news and web literacy into their classrooms.

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