| MediaStudies | | 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 | | "Seminal Influences in Modern American Advertising." An online essay on generative influences in advertising projects from creative director & copywriter Nat Whitten. |
| 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. |
| Noam Chomsky | | Chomsky's home page at MIT. Contains a list of his publications on topics relevant to mass media. |
| 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 children and their parents become more open-minded media consumers. |
| Pop Politics | | Explores why people are turning away from traditional news sources for political coverage and turning to pop culture for information. |
| 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. |
| PRWATCH | | A nonprofit, public interest organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. |
| Techknowledge: Literate Practice and Digital Worlds | | 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. |
| 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, and the culture industry. Strong criticisms of the media within modern industrial society. |
| 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. |
| Transparency | | Essays and media criticism intended to reveal the hidden meanings in TV, film, science fiction, theme parks, virtual realities, politics, advertising and news. |
| Umberto Eco | | Links and content referencing the Italian semiotician Umberto Eco's work and ideas. |
| Visual Culture | | 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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