Favorite Resources Addressing the Media
- The Big Turnoff: Confessions of a TV-Addicted Mom Trying to Raise a TV-Free Kid by Ellen Curry Wilson (2007)
- Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture by Juliet Schor (2004)
- Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing and Advertising by Susan Linn (2005)
- Kid Stuff: Marketing Sex and Violence to America’s Children by Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti (2003)
- Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes by Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown (2006)
- Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence by Lt. Col Dave Grossman and Gloria Degaetano (1999)
Videos
- Media Education Foundation: Fantastic source of educational videos www.mediaed.org
Web Sites
- Adbusters Magazine: An ad-free critique of consumer culture and the machine that drives it www.adbusters.org
- Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood: Fantastic advocacy for children www.commercialfreechildhood.org
- Center for Media Literacy: Empowerment though education www.medialit.org
- Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use: Current information by Nancy Willard www.csriu.org
- Center for Screen Time Awareness: Sponsors Turn Off TV Week www.tvturnoff.org
- Media Education Foundation: Challenges media using powerful videos on a wide variety of topics www.mediaed.org
- Media Literacy: Resources for advancing media education www.medialiteracy.com
- Media Literacy Clearinghouse: A Web site for K-12 educators www.frankwbaker.com
- New Mexico Media Literacy Program: Fantastic resources on media literacy programs www.nmmlp.org
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