TCOM103 Media/Information Society

Alliance for a Media Literate America
Formerly known as the Partnership for Media Education (PME), the Alliance for a Media Literate America was established in 1997 by four women leaders in the US media literacy movement who formed a public/private collaboration in order to stimulate professional development in the then-fledgling media literacy field.

Alternet
AlterNet.org is a new online magazine, information source and community that combines quality journalism, public-interest content, interactivity, passionate advocacy and links to useful resources.

Association for Media Literacy
The Association for Media Literacy is made up of teachers, librarians, consultants, parents, cultural workers, and media professionals concerned about the impact of the mass media in the creation of contemporary culture.

Center for Media and Public Affairs
The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media. CMPA is one of the few groups to study the important role the media plays in communicating information about health risks and scientific issues.

Center for Media Literacy
A non-profit educational organization to support and promote media literacy.

COPSwatch
From attorney Richard Glen Boire, a response to the police tactics used on
the TV show COPS. Commentary, audio, related links, a listserv and books for sale.

Cursor
Media news on both local and national level. A lot of useful links and information including largest media companies.

Directory's Net Media Activist Organization Listing

FAIR
FAIR is a national media watch group that has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.

Film Industry Reform Movement
An international association concerned with "propaganda effects" of the US film industry. Mission statement, commentary, forums, press releases, recommended links, topics for further research, listserv, bookstore and how to volunteer.

Free Press
Free Press is a national non-profit media reform organization working to: open, democratize and ignite media policy debates, increase advocacy efforts in Washington connected to grassroots outreach across the nation.

Holding Hollywood Accountable
A group which supports voluntary change by the entertainment industry in favor of portraying less violence. Introduction, recommended links, forums and contact information.

HonestReports.com
From a group combatting stereotypes of Muslims; includes news, newsletter, researched publications, background information, tips on journalism and contact information.

Kill Your Television
A web site with many articles criticizing the commercialization and negative effects of television.

Media Alliance
A training and resource center for media workers, community organization, media activists.

Media Awareness Network
From a Canadian non-profit organization especially concerned with violence in mass communications. Includes reports, opportunities, recommended links, contact information, members, sponsors, awards received and a press gallery.

Media Bias
This is a page of links to independent essays about specific instances of intentional bias in the media ... from TV and radio to print media

Media Democracy Day

A Canadian media activist association to use media for increasing democracy.

Media Reseach Center
The nation’s largest conservative media watchdog organization founded in 1987.

Media Transparency
Commentary, analysis and investigative data related to links between prominent conservative think-tanks and their funding sources.

Mediarights.org
A group using documentaries to advance social causes.

Morality in Media
Commentary, resources and current developments from a national interfaith organization which seeks to combat obscenity and to uphold decency standards in mass communications.

Paper Tiger Television
Paper Tiger Television (PTTV) is an open, non-profit, volunteer video collective. Through the production and distribution of our public access series, media literacy/video production workshops, community screenings and grassroots advocacy PTTV works to challenge and expose the corporate control of mainstream media.

Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP)

Incorporated as a non-profit media arts center in 1977, SWAMP promotes film, video, and new media through education, information and presentation activities.

Television Critics Association
The Television Critics Association represents 150 journalists writing about television for print and online outlets in the United States and Canada. See their activities and what television programs are highly regarded by the critics.

Television Turnoff Network
TV-Turnoff Network is a national nonprofit organization that encourages children and adults to watch much less television in order to promote healthier lives and communities.

The Truth in America Project
From a group interested in achieving reform of the major news monopolies. Who they are, their goals, commentary, recommended links, forum, contact information and how to donate.

Trade Publications
Broadcasting and Cable
a weekly magazine published by Cahners Publishing and read by executives of television and radio stations, networks, cable operations and allied fields. Broadcasting & Cable covers virtually every TV station, every major market radio station, major cable operations and all key regulations and legislators

Cable Vision
the magazine for a new age of cable, provides features and analysis on business issues challenging cable television management

Cable World
A weekly news and analysis magazine for the cable TV industry. It provides data to executives for staying abreast of technological changes and competitive challenges -- while staying within budget.

Digital Television
A monthly publication on the development of technology in television industry especially in interactive and digital technolgy.

Television Week (Formerly Electronic Media)
A weekly magazine that covers the programming business of television in broadcasting, cable and syndication, including local stations, broadcast and cable networks, direct broadcast satellite and the Web

Entertainment Weekly
A weekly magazine on the etntertainment industry

Media Week
A weekly magazine that covers advertising business and management issues of commercial media

Multi-Channel News
The current week's important news to the cable television and telecommunications industries both domestically and internationally.

Pazsaz Entertainment Network
A family started this site about the news and information on the entertainment industry includes games, TV and movies.

PK Baseline
comprehensive online information services for the entertainment and media communications industries. Subscribers can access: credits, synopses, awards and more for over 50,000 films, TV series, specials and made for TV movies, current production details, personnel listings, addresses and phone numbers of thousands of companies and corporate players, current and archived editions of Paul Kagan's DBS Report Newsletter, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Cable World magazine and the newswires, box office estimates and actuals, video rentals, production costs, print and ad costs.

Radio and Internet Newsletter
Daily news and commentary on issues involving radio and the Internet.

Streaming Magazine
The monthly magazine on the business of Internet Media

TV Guide Online
The best-selling weekly magazine on television

TV Spy
A web site listing hot topics in the TV industry with discussion forum, job listings and professional service listings.

Zap2it (formerly Ultimate TV)
Guide to What's Onscreen TV, Movies and the Internet.

Media Associations
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
Broadcast Education Association (BEA)
Cable-Television Advertising Bureau (CAB)
Cable-Television Adminstration and Marketing Society (CTAM)
Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA)
International Radio and Television Society (IRTS)
National Association of Black Telecommunications Professionals (NABTP)
National Association of Broadcasters(NAB)
National Association of Programming Executives(NATPE)
National Cable Television Association(NCTA)
Television Bureau of Advertising (TvB)