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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.

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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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Emigre Design

  http://www.emigre.com/Editorial.php
  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.

• 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.

• 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."

• Marshall McLuhan Archive

  http://www.marshallmcluhan.com/
  This official not-for-profit web site is maintained by the estate of Marshall McLuhan to ensure the integrity of his name and legacy.

• Master New Media

  http://www.masternewmedia.org/
  Know-how, resources and tools to facilitate one's ability to learn, communicate and collaborate effectively with new media technologies.

• Media Education Foundation

  http://www.mediaed.org/
  A nonprofit organization devoted to media research and the production of resources to aid educators and others in fostering analytical media literacy.

• Media Literacy Clearinghouse

  http://www.frankwbaker.com/
  Resources and workshops for K-12 educators promoting critical thinking to help students read media messages.

• Media Literacy Project

  http://medialiteracyproject.org/
  Aims to help people become more critical consumers of media messages. Provides teaching and multimedia resources, presentations, and training nationwide.

• Media Smarts

  http://mediasmarts.ca/
  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.

• MediaLiteracy

  http://www.medialiteracy.net/
  Research, information and materials by media literacy speaker and consultant Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D.

• MediaStudies

  http://www.mediastudies.com/
  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.

• 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.

• Noam Chomsky

  http://web.mit.edu/linguistics/people/faculty/chomsky/index.html
  Chomsky's home page at MIT. Includes a list of his publications on topics relevant to mass media.

• 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.

• PBS Teacher Source - Media Literacy

  http://www.pbs.org/teachers/media_lit/
  Features related activities, classroom resources, and professional development information.

• Popular Culture and American Culture Association

  http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca/
  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.

• PRWATCH

  http://www.prwatch.org/
  A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry.

• Spark Media Project

  http://sparkmediaproject.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.

• The Foucault Pages at CSUN

  http://www.csun.edu/~hfspc002/foucault.home.html
  A good place to start if you want to apply the thinking of Michel Foucault to any study of mass media.

• The Validity of Anti-War Criticism

  http://www.alternet.org/story/11946/
  In defense of anti-war criticism by Tim Wise.

• Transparency

  http://www.transparencynow.com/
  Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news.

• Understand Media

  http://www.understandmedia.com/
  Contains original articles, resources, blogs, podcasts, videos, and links for educators and parents interested in increasing media literacy.

• What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream - Noam Chomsky

  http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199710--.htm
  From a talk at Z Media Institute in 1997.

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