LISTED BELOW ARE VARIOUS LINKS of interest to division members and beyond. I've roughly categorized them into: Academic/teaching resources, progressive media clearinghouses, progressive media organizations, media-activist organizations, and activist link clearinghouses. If you know of more that are not listed here, please e-mail the web address and title to Carolina Acosta-Alzuru (cacosta(AT)uga.edu).

Academic/teaching resources

• ACME Action Coalition for Media Education.
• AMLA (Alliance for a Media Literate America). Educators and NGOs hoping to improve and expland the practice of media literacy education in the United States.
• AltMedia-L. An interdisciplinary listserv that promotes research into alternative, radical and community media in all their forms. Provides a space to share ideas, information, skills and resources.
• Association for Cultural Studies. Newly established global academic organization.
• BlogLeft: Critical Interventions. A critical/radical weblog initiated and hosted by Doug Kellner, UCLA. Very comprehensive set of links down the lefthand column for additional, original resources.
• Center for Educational Priorities. Deals with connections between education and American culture; focuses on media reform.
• Center for Media Literacy.
• Center for Social Media (School of Communication, American University). An organization that seeks to put a spotlight on socially-engaged strategies for making and using media.
• Center for the Study of Political Graphics. Non-profit, tax-exempt educational archive that collects, preserves, archives, and exhibits domestic and international posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for peace and social justice.
• Communcation Institute for Online Scholarship
• Critical Methods Society. Arranges conferences about the politics of knowledge production and supports critical research, guerilla publishing and radical teaching initiatives. We are a loose grouping of lecturers and students at South African universities, but our focus is on international as much as on South African issues. We are interested in the critical possibilities of social science methodologies and in ways of understanding and disrupting knowledge production processes inside and beyond the academy.
• CULTSTUD-L. Listserv devoted to cultural studies. Currently has more than 600 subscribers from more than 30 countries. Includes links to many academic journals, with information for authors.
• Cultural Compliance debate
• Cultural Studies Central. Features original interactive commentary and analysis, links to cultural-studies resources, and pointers to World Wide Web projects devoted to special cultural studies interests.
• Cultural Studies Resources. List of online resources hosted by Blackwell Publishers.
• History Arena
• Illuminations: The Critical Theory Website. A WWW research resource for those interested in the Critical Theory project. Assembled by Doug Kellner. Firmly based in Frankfurt School thought, this site maintains a collection of articles, excerpts, and chapters from many contemporary writers of and about Critical Theory. Additional submissions from graduate students and others are also available, as are links to other websites and related sources.
• Inter/Sections-the Journal of Global Communic...
• Interfacings: A Journal of Contemporary Media S
• Interview with Hayden White on Marxism, May 2001
• Marxists Internet Archive
• MCTC Library - Zines
• Media and Communications, University of Wales at Aberystwyth.
• MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES ARENA
• Media Education Foundation
• Media History Project
• Online Tobacco Education Resources
• PopCultures.com (a.k.a Sarah Zupko's Cultural...
• Qualitative Interest Group 2001
• Primary Documents. Primary documents on a variety of topics in media and social history. Useful as a tool for teachers or as a source of enjoyment for the historically minded.
• R.J. Reynolds Ad Campaigns for Camel Cigarettes
• Radio Rsch Database UK
• Radio Theory home page
• Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge. Promotes experimental work located outside current disciplines, work that has no proper location.
• Sound Journal. Carries forward critical debate across the disciplines. As a new journal, our essays, reviews and interviews will cross boundaries and build new coalitions. This is the only journal (so far) to consider sound across so many boundaries. We hope that it will provide a wide variety of essays, review articles and interviews, and a space for creative works for practitioners, as a medium for feedback, and creative and intellectual exchange.
• UNESCO - Communication and Information Sector
• Union for Democratic Communications. An organization of communication researchers, journalists, media producers, policy analysts, academics and activists. Encourages critical perspectives in communication theory, media production and the study of popular culture through its conferences, newsletter, and other activities.
• VAMP (Virtual Alternative Media Project). An exhaustive listing of resources, organizations, and publications. Compiled by students and hosted by the University of Kentucky.
• Voice of the Shuttle. Over 70 pages of links to humanities and humanities-related resources on the Internet. Its mission has been to provide a structured and briefly annotated guide to online resources that at once respects the established humanities disciplines in their professional organization and points toward the transformation of those disciplines as they interact with the sciences and social sciences and with new digital media. Hosted by UC-Santa Barbara English Dept.

Progressive media clearinghouses

• ACLU
• Center for International Media Action. A nonprofit organization created to strengthen connections among grassroots organizers, public-interest advocates, activists and researchers focused on media policy and social justice. Seeks to increase the efficacy of organizing and activism around media issues by providing tools and services to help groups share knowledge, build relationships and utilize existing resources.
• Media Literacy Clearing House. Background, articles, lesson plans and more.
• Open Communication Project. An information clearinghouse and contact directory for people working toward worldwide freedom of communication.
• Social Justice Connections
• The Center for Voting and Democracy
• The Progressive Information Network. Brings together the collective voice of over 600 progressive scholars, activists, and teachers. Recognizing the importance of impacting community debate, the network supplies information packets for use in local newspapers, bulletin boards, radio talk shows, and public events.

Progressive media organizations

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• Alt Media Watch A compendium of resources hosted by ZNet.
• Alternative Radio A weekly one-hour public affairs program offered free to all public radio stations in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, and on short-wave on Radio for Peace International. AR provides information, analyses and views that are frequently ignored or distorted in other media.
• AlterNet.org A project of the Independent Media Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism. First launched in 1998, AlterNetâ?(TM)s online magazine provides a mix of news, opinion and investigative journalism on subjects ranging from the environment, the drug war, technology and cultural trends to policy debate, sexual politics and health issues. The AlterNet article database includes more than 7,000 stories from over 200 sources.
• American Indian Film Institute. A non-profit media arts center founded in 1979 to foster understanding of the culture, traditions and issues of contemporary Native Americans
• Art Crimes: The Writing on the Wall a gallery of graffiti art from cities around the world. As of April 1999 Art Crimes has more than 3000 images from 205 cities, 43 countries and 6 continents.
• BU Underground
• Center for Public Integrity. The center aims to produce high-quality, well-documented, investigative research resulting in a better-informed citizenry that demands a higher level of accountability from its government and elected leaders. The center also extends globally its style of watchdog journalism in the public interest through the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Created in 1997, ICIJ includes more than 80 leading investigative reporters and editors in over 40 countries. Since opening its doors in downtown Washington, D.C. in 1990, the Center has released more than 100 investigative studies including 10 books.
• City Lore
• Common Dreams News Center. Breaking news and views for the progressive community.
• Common-Forum Project A new mass deliberation system currently in its first stages of development. The goal of the project is to build an ideal technology for civil discussion and democratic discourse.
• Community Film Workshop of Chicago
• Counterpunch
• Deep Dish TV
• Direct Action Media Network
• Grade the News (at Stanford University). A media research project focusing on the quality of the news media in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are affiliated with and based at Stanford University's Graduate Program in Journalism.We aim to provide timely critiques and in-depth, systematic analyses that allow the public to compare newspapers and local television news broadcasts on equal footing. Our mission is to help Bay Area residents recognize their dependence on news -- democracy's most essential commodity,
  assess news organizations' success in meeting those ends, and
  secure quality news across the region's diverse communities.
• Guerrilla News Network
• How to be A Radio Pirate Home Page
• Independent Media Center -
• Institute for Public Accuracy. A nationwide consortium of policy researchers. Seeks to broaden public discourse by gaining media access for those whose perspectives are commonly drowned out by corporate-backed think tanks and other influential institutions.
• IPA NY Home
• IWW Radio Network
• Konscious. Dedicated to showing socially aware film/video, music and arts programming. Our non-profit website is a tool to amplify the voices of independent filmmakers and to link viewers to opportunities for activism and social change.
• The Memory Hole. Launched 10 July 2002. Exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known. This includes: ¥ Government files ¥ Corporate memos ¥ Court documents (incl. lawsuits and transcripts) ¥ Police reports and eyewitness statements ¥ Congressional testimony ¥ Reports (governmental and non-governmental) ¥ Maps, patents, Web pages ¥ Photographs, video, and sound recordings ¥ News articles ¥ Books (and portions of books).
• Multinational Monitor. Tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.
• New American Radio Home Page
• New Orleans Video Access Center
• Northwest Film Center
• OneWorld Radio
• openDemocracy Strands homepage
• Pacifica News
• Paper Tiger Television
• Progressive Populist.
• Project Censored. The primary objective of Project Censored is to explore and publicize the extent of censorship in our society by locating stories about significant issues of which the public should be aware, but is not, for one reason or another.
• Radio for Peace International. A shortwave radio station located in Costa Rica, Central America.
• Reverend Billy & the Church of Stop Shopping
• SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER. A Philadelphia-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1982 as a place where people could work together and gain skills in media making. Scribe Video Center seeks to explore, develop and advance the use of video as an artistic medium and as a tool for progressive social change.
• The Nation
• The Web Inquirer; An International Investigative Magazine
• Z Magazine/ZNet

Media-activist organizations

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• About-Face! About-Face questions and satirizes negative and demeaning images of women in society.
• A-infos Radio Project. Broadcast-quality radio programs through the Internet.
• Alliance for Community Media
• BADvertising Institute By juxtaposing silly, gross and disgusting images on top of deceitful ads, we jolt people into realizing how tobacco ads are concealing the truth.
• BAVC. Independent media arts center for the Bay Area.
• Billboard Liberation Front
• Billboard take-offs
• Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom
• Cascadia Media Alliance
• Center for Digital Democracy
• Center for History and New Media
• Center for Media and Democracy Home of, among other things, the watchdog group PR Watch. Back issues available.
• Commedia [ONLINE]
• Comunica. Explores and supports ways that local and independent media in less developed countries are making use of information and communication technologies to strengthen efforts for development and democracy.
• Corporate Consulting for the 21st Century
• CRAPCO Corp. Inc. Internet Parody & Humor Site.
• CWA: The Workersâ?(TM) Voice at Public Broadcasting
• DCTV
• Democratic Media Legal Project Home Page
• Digital Disaster
• Economic Democracy:
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
• False Advertising - Welcome
• Free Radio Berkeley - Reclaiming the Airwaves w
• Freespeech.org: Home
• GLAAD (Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation)
• I Want Media - Media Consolidation
• Information Liberation Front
• LabourNet UK - Home Page
• Left Hook--A Journal by and for American Youth on the Radical Left. Purpose is to create an open atmosphere of principled discussion and debate among American leftist youth along the whole radical spectrum. It is our goal to produce news and analysis that engages the current issues and tasks that our generation faces in a dynamic and critical way. We are interested in ground reports, historical and theoretical interpretations, sociopolitical analysis, news commentary, all kinds of art, rap, poetry, plays, and so forth.
• lists.riseup.net
• Low Power Radio Coalition
• M c S P O T L I G H T
• Media Alliance. A 27-year-old nonprofit training and resource center for media workers, community organizations, and political activists. Mission is to advocate for excellence, ethics, diversity, and accountability in all aspects of the media in the interests of peace, justice, and social responsibility.
• Media Access Project: Low Power Radio
• Media Foundation. Publishes AdBusters quarterly; proponent of "culture-jamming" mainstream media.
• Media Tank
• media workers against the war
• MediaLens.org - correcting for the distorted vi
• Micro Radio Implementation Project
• MicroRadio.Net
• National Federation of Community Broadcasters
• National Radio Project
• Negativland. Experimental-music and art collective. Negativland might be called a "noise" band because they like interesting noises in their music, or an "idea" band because they often rearrange found sound content in order to make some new and previously unintended point with it. Its contemporary interest in collage (a hallmark of 20th Century art of all kinds) is prompted by the fact that art and commerce have now merged to a degree where corporate commerce now finances, grooms, directs, filters, manufactures and distributes almost everything we know of as "culture." This inevitably uncomfortable partnership of art and commerce to produce "mass culture" means that art is no longer any kind of independent creation at all.
• Our Media Not Theirs
• Parents TV Council
• People for Better TV
• Popaganda, The Art and Subversion of Ron English
• Progressive Review Foreign Affairs Archives
• Progressive South Asian Exchange Net
• Radio 4All
• Reclaim the Media! Part of a growing media democracy movement concerned about the private takeover of public broadcasting resources, corporate consolidation and homogenization of media systems, and the deregulatory rollback of public interest accountability. Home of the Cascadia Media Alliance.
• Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan
• S.W.A.T. / The Whole Truth
• savepacifica - Restoring Pacifica as a democrat
• Signs of the Times. Provides a space for the free circulation and exchange of ideas on the left, outside the confines of the academy and not limited by party loyalties or sectarian ideologies.
• Smoking Gun
• Straight Goods. A watchdog working for Canadian consumers and citizens. The purpose of Straight Goods is to help you save money, protect your rights and untangle spin with investigative reports, features, forums, archives, and links to many others who share our values.
• Street-Level Youth Media. Educates Chicago's inner-city youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression communication, and social change.
• Subvertise.org - Subverts, Political, Art, Ad.... This shared web-gallery of radical arts exists to document, develop and promote the artform of the post-corporate millennium - subvertising. Subvertising is the Art of Cultural resistance. It is the 'writing on the wall', the sticker on the lamppost, the corrected rewording of Billboards, the spoof T-shirt; but it is also the mass act of defiance of a street party. The key process involves redefining or even reclaiming our environment from the corporate beast.
• Teen Tobacco Summit
• The Hoot.org
• This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow
• Toward Freedom Online
• Video Activist Network
• We are everywhere
• We, the World
• Women Make Movies
• Women's International News Gathering Service
• World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC). An international non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement, with almost 3 000 members and associates in 106 countries. Its goal is to support and contribute to the development of community and participatory radio along the principals of solidarity and international cooperation.
• Zapnet

Activist-link clearinghouses

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• One World Communication. An international non profit organization dedicated to bringing news and information in the voices of activists and journalists from countries in Africa, Asia, and Central and South America.
• activistse-z.com Do-it-yourself resources for activists.
• CampusActivism.org
• Institute for Global Communications. Host for PeaceNet, EcoNet, LaborNet, ConflictNet, WomensNet, plus many international activist groups including Amnesty International, Socialist Labor Party, and Electronic Frontier Foundation.
• MediaChannel.org
• microbroadcasting *** Organizations Indexed
• NetAction
• Progressive Information Network