Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters
http://adbusters.org/home/
Promotes media and corporate activism: "We want folks to get mad about corporate disinformation, injustices in the global economy, and any industry that pollutes our physical or mental commons." (http://adbusters.org/network/about_us.php) They also publish Adbusters magazine, to which our library subscribes.
Center for Media Literacy
http://www.medialit.org
A non-profit educational institution "dedicated to a new vision of literacy for the 21st Century: the ability to communicate competently in all media forms, print and electronic, as well as to access, understand, analyze and evaluate the powerful images, words and sounds that make up our contemporary mass media culture." Provides curriculum guides for all age levels. (http://www.medialit.org/about_cml.html)
Children Now: Media
http://www.childrennow.org/issues/media/
Children Now is a "leading national public policy organization working to ensure children have a healthy and diverse media environment." (http://www.childrennow.org/issues/media/)
Just Think Foundation
http://www.justthink.org
A non-profit organization that teaches young people how to think critically about the media. "Just Think envisions a world of critically and creatively engaged young people who influence media more than media influence them, a world where being literate includes being media literate." (http://www.justthink.org/about/vision)
New Mexico Media Literacy Project
http://www.nmmlp.org/
Provides tools to help people "become more critical consumers of media messages." (http://www.nmmlp.org/index.html)
"Twelve Factors in Newsworthiness"
http://www.cybercollege.com/newscrit.htm
A list of twelve factors that make a broadcast news story newsworthy, from the Television Production "course" at CyberCollege.com.
