Media Organizations & Resources


Media Education Foundation

MISSION:The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes documentary films and other educational resources to inspire critical thinking about the social, political, and cultural impact of American mass media . 

http://www.mediaed.org/

Adbusters

MISSION: Adbusters is a global network of artists, writers, students, educators, and entrepreneurs who want to launch the new social activist movements of the information age.

www.adbusters.org

Alliance for Community Media

www.alliancecm.org

MISSION: We are committed to assuring everyone’s access to electronic media. The Alliance accomplishes this by creating public education, advancing a positive legislation and regulatory environment, building coalitions and supporting local organizing. 

Center for Media Education

www.cme.org

MISSION:The CME is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a quality electronic media culture for children and youth, their families, and the commnity. CME’s research focuses on the potential–and the peril– for children and youth of the rapidly evolving digital media age.

Community Technology Centers’ Network 

www.ctcnet.org

MISSION: CTCNet envisions a society in which all people are equitably empowered by technology skills and usage….CTCNet brings together agencies and programs that provide opportunities whereby people of all ages who typically lack access to computers and related technologies can learn to use these technologies in an environment that encourages exploration and discovery, and through experience, develop personal skills and self-confident.

Independent Media Center

www.indymedia.org

MISSION: The Independent Media Center is a network of collectively run media outlets for the creation of radical, objective, and passionate tellings of the truth. 

The Media Channel

www.mediachannel.org

MISSION: On Media Channel, you find original news, opinions, and reports. This super site is a reading room, a research center, and a meeting place for everyone with an interest in media. 

National Institute on Media & The Family

www.mediafamily.org

MISSION: The institute is a national resource providing educational tools and materials to help parents, teachers, community leaders, and other caring adults understand the impact of the media, so they can make informed choices for children. 

Indigenous Communities



International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs

http://www.iwgia.org/

Wichis

http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/wichi

http://saiic.nativeweb.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wich%C3%AD_people

http://www.survivalinternational.org/tribes/wichi

Mapuches

http://mapuexpress.org/

http://www.mapuche.nl/

https://www.youtube.com/user/folilmapuche/videos

https://mapuchenl.wordpress.com/

http://radio.mapuche.nl/​

Bolivia
Agencia Plurinacional de Comunicación

Zapatistas

Official Website: http://www.ezln.org.mx/

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Zapatista-Movement/183219555104702

Documentary, “A Place Called Chiapas”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TffwElt_UU

Course Bibliography

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Barnett, C. (2003). Technologies of Citizenship: Assembling Media Publics. In Culture and Democracy Media, Space, and Representation (pp. 81-107). Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press.

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Dornfeld, B., & Larkin, B. (2002). Putting American Public Television Documentary in Its Places. In F. Ginsburg & L. Abu-Lughod (Eds.), Media Worlds Anthropology on New Terrain (pp. 247-263). University of California Press.

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Fromson, M. (1996). Mexico’s Struggle for a Free Press. In R. Cole (Ed.), Communication in Latin America Journalism, Mass Media, and Society (pp. 115-137). Ailmington: Scholarly Resources.

Ginsburg, F., Abu-Lughod, L., & Larkin, B. (2002). Introduction. In Media Worlds Anthropology on New Terrain (pp. 1-36). University of California Press.

Gonzalez-Rodriguez, G., & Lugo-Ocando, J. (2008). The Media in Chile: The Restoration of Democracy and the Subsequent Concentration of Media Ownership. In The Media in Latin America (pp. 61-77). Open University Press.

Greenwald, G. (2010). Limiting Democracy: The American Media’s World View, and Ours.Social Research, 77(3), 827-838.

Greenwald, G. (2014). No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, The NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. New York: Metropolitan Books.

Guedas-Bailey, O., & Jambeiro Barbosa, O. (2008). The Media in Brazil: An Historical Overview of Brazilian Broadcasting Politics. In J. Lugo-Ocando (Ed.), The Media in Latin America.(pp. 46-60). Open University Press.

Gurevitch, M., Coleman, S., Blumler, J., & Graber, D. (2011). Political Communication: Old and New Media Relationships. In Media Power In Politics (Sixth Edition ed., pp. 45-56). Washington D.C.: CQ Press.

Hall, S. (1997). Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. SAGE. London.

Hargittai, E. (2011). Minding the digital gap: Why understandings digital inequality matters. In S. Papathanassopoulos (Ed.), Media Perspectives for the 21st Century (pp. 231-240). Routledge.

Hindman, M. (2009). The Internet and the “Democratization” of Politics. In The Myth of Digital Democracy (pp. 1-19). Princeton University Press.

Hindman, M. (2009). “Googlearchy”: The Link Structure of Political Web Sites. In The Myth of Digital Democracy (pp. 38-57). Princeton University Press.

Hindman, M. (2009). Political Traffic and the Politics of Search. In The Myth of Digital Democracy (pp. 58-81). Princeton University Press.

Hoover, S., & Emerich, M. (2011). Introduction: Media, Spiritualities and Social Change. In Media, Spiritualities and Social Change (pp. 1-12). London: Continuum.

Hughes, S., & Lugo-Ocando, J. (2008). The Media in Mexico: From Authoritarians to Hybrid System. In The Media in Latin America. (pp. 131-149). Open University Press.

Johansson, T., & Rosengran, K. (1994). Late modernity, consumer culture and lifestyles: Toward a cognitive-affective theory. In Media effects and beyond: Culture, socialization and lifestyles (pp. 265-293). New York: Routledge.

Landau, S., & Hayden, T. (2002). The Zapatista Army of National Liberation Part of the Latin Americn Revolutionary Tradition– But also very Different. In The Zapatista Reader (pp. 146-152). New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press.

Levitsky, S., & Mainwaring, S. (2005). Argentina: Democratic Survival amidst Economic Failure. In F. Hagopian (Ed.), The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America Advances and Setbacks (pp. 63-89). Cambridge University Press.

Lopes, I. (2013). Political Culture and the Democratization of Communications in Brazil. Latin American Perspectives, 40 No. 3(190), 129-140.

Mainwaring, S., & Mainwaring, F. (2005). Introduction. In The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America Advances and Setbacks (pp. 1-13). Cambridge University Press.

Mainwaring, S., Perez-Linan, A., & Mainwaring, S. (2005). Latin American Democratization since 1978: Democratic Transitions, Breakdowns, and Erosions. In F. Hagopian (Ed.), The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America Advances and Setbacks (pp. 14-59). Cambridge University Press.

McAllister, M. (2011). Consumer culture and new media: Commodity fetishism in the digital era. In S. Papathanassopoulos (Ed.), Media Perspectives for the 21st Century (pp. 149-165). Routledge.

McChesney, R. (2004). The Age of Hyper-Commercialism. In The Problem of the Media (pp. 138-174). New York: Monthly Review Press.

Meikle, G. (2008). Whacking Bush. In M. Boler (Ed.), Digital Media and Democracy Tactics in Hard Times (pp. 371-382). Massachusetts: The MIT Press.

Mellado, C., & Lagos, C. (2013). Redefining Comparative Analyses of Media Systems from the Perspective of New Democracies. Communication & Society, 26(4), 1-24.

Montgomery, L., & Cole, R. (1996). The Role of Women in Latin American Mass Media. In Communication in Latin America Journalism, Mass Media, and Society (pp. 37-49). Ailmington: Scholarly Resources.

Murphy, P. (2007). Introduction Media and Democracy in the Age of Globalization. In I. Blankson & P. Murphy (Eds.), Negotiating Democracy Media Transformations in Emerging Democracies (pp. 1-11). State University of New York Press.

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Nichols, J. (1996). Effects of International Propaganda on U.S.-Cuban Relations. In R. Cole (Ed.), Communication in Latin America Journalism, Mass Media, and Society (pp. 71-103). Ailmington: Scholarly Resources.

Nichols, J., & McChesney, R. (2013, November 6). Free the Media! Retrieved from http://www.thenation.com/article.177033/free-media

Nichols, J., & McChesney, R. (2008, May 29). Who’ll Unplug Big Media? Stay Tuned. Retrieved from http://www.thenation.com/article/wholl-unplug-big-media-stay-tuned#

Palavicini, G. (2011). Mass Media’s Influence on the Transformation of the Mexican Political Regime. Latin America Policy, 2(2), 234-246.

Papathanassopoulos, S. (2011). Introduction: Media perspectives for the 21st century. In S. Papathanassopoulos (Ed.), Media Perspectives for the 21st Century (pp. 1-17). Routledge.

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Pingree, S., & Hawkins, R. (1994). Looking for Patterns in Lifestyle Behaviours. In K. Rosengran (Ed.), Media effects and beyond: Culture, socialization and lifestyles (pp. 76-96). New York: Routledge.

Poniatowska, E. (2002). Voices from the Jungle Subcomandante Marcos and Culture. In T. Hayden (Ed.), The Zapatista Reader (pp. 373-381). Thunder’s Mouth Press.

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Schimmel, S. (2011). The Blogosphere of Resistance: Anonymous Blogging as a Safe Haven for Chellenging Religious Authority and Creating Dissident Communities. In Media, Spiritualities and Social Change (pp. 147-157). London: Continuum.

Selb, P., & Graber, D. (2011). The Al Jazeera Effect: How the New Global Media are Reshaping World Politics. In Media Power In Politics(Sixth ed., pp. 283-291). Washington D.C.: CQ Press.

Selverston, M. (1998). The Politics of Identity Reconstruction: Indians and Democracy in Ecuador. In D. Chalmers, C. Vilas, K. Hite, S. Martin, K. Piester, & M. Segarra (Eds.), The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America Rethinking Participation and Representation (pp. 170-191). New York: Oxford University Press.

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Sturken, M., Thomas, D., J. Ball-Rokeach S. (2004). Technological Visions: The Hopes and Fears That Shape New Technologies. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.  

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Turner, T. (2002). Representation, Politics, and Cultural Imagination in Indigenous Video. In F. Ginsburg, L. Abu-Lughod, & B. Larkin (Eds.), Media Worlds Anthropology on New Terrain (pp. 75-89). University of California Press.

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Vialey, P., Belinche, M., & Tovar, C. (2008). The Media in Argentina:Democracy, Crisis and the Reconfiguration of Media Groups. In J. Lugo-Ocando (Ed.), The Media in Latin America (pp. 13-27). Open University Press.

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Vodovnik, Z. (2004). !Ya Basta! Ten Years of the Zapatista Uprising. Oakland: AK Press.