Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of the truth. We work out of a love and inspiration for people who continue to work for a better world, despite corporate media’s distortions and unwillingness to cover the efforts to free humanity. IMC […]
The AjA Project
The mission of The AjA Project is to empower refugee and underprivileged youth through educational programs and to help them create better opportunities for their future. We fulfill our mission by fostering a sense of belonging and self-worth in refugee youth. The AjA Project provides innovative media arts and photography-based educational programs that empower youth […]
Stay Free Magazine
Stay Free! is a nonprofit, Brooklyn-based magazine that explores the politics and perversions of mass media and American (consumer) culture. In existence for 10 years, Stay Free! is published once or twice a year. The next issue (#25) will be out in February 2006. The organization’s blog, Stay Free! Daily, is similarly focused on mass […]
Frank Baker ML Clearinghouse
The Media Literacy Clearinghouse is an extensive repository of resources designed for K-12 educators who want to learn more about media literacy, integrate it into classroom instruction, help students understand the media, and help students become more media-aware. Topics for research include: advertising, big media, body image, information literacy, magazines, gender, motion pictures, media criticism, […]
Youth Noise
Based in the United States, Youth Noise is a social networking site for young people interested in social causes of local, national, or international relevance. Supported causes include Violence, War and Peace, Poverty, Homelessness, Civil Rights, Tolerance, etc. As an online discussion center, Youth Noise facilitates issue-centered dialogue as well as access to educational resources. […]
Game Studies
Game Studies is a crossdisciplinary journal dedicated to games research, web-published several times a year at www.gamestudies.org. Its missions are to explore the rich cultural genre of games; to give scholars a peer-reviewed forum for their ideas and theories; and to provide an academic channel for the ongoing discussions on games and gaming.
Cable in the Classroom (CIC)
Cable in the Classroom (CIC) is the U.S. cable industry’s education foundation. Its mission is to foster the use of cable content and technology to expand and enhance learning for children and youth nationwide. Working in partnership with and on behalf of the cable industry, CIC advocates for the visionary, sensible and effective use of […]
Kaiser Family Foundation
A leader in health policy and communications, the Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the U.S., with a growing role in global health. Unlike grant-making foundations, Kaiser develops and runs its own research and communications programs, sometimes in partnership with other non-profit research organizations […]
Learning.now
Learning.now is a weblog that explores how new technology and Internet culture affect how educators teach and children learn. It will offer a continuing look at how new technology such as wikis, blogs, vlogs, RSS, podcasts, social networking sites, and the always-on culture of the Internet are impacting teacher and students’ lives both inside and […]
On the Media (OTM)
On the Media (OTM) is produced by WNYC New York Public Radio. OTM explores media production and monitors fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas and threats to the freedoms of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of “making media,” […]