How to Connect with Others in Media Literacy Education

Educational membership organizations

• ACME - the Action Coalition for Media Education offers a bi-annual conference and a discussion list-serv for members. Local chapters have occasional meetings and regional conferences in Northern California; Vermont; St. Louis, Missouri; New York and New  Mexico.
• AMLA - the Alliance for Media Literate America sponsors the bi-annual National Media Education Conference and has a monthly email newsletter for members.
• National Telemedia Council - the NTC sponsors occasional international videoconferences of media literacy educators, with numerous U.S. downlink sites. It publishes Telemedium, the Journal of Media Literacy.
• Educational associations whose conferences often include media literacy-related programming include the National Council of Teachers of English and National Council for the Social Studies.

Other organizations

Conferences & workshops with media literacy programming are offered by:

• Center for Media Literacy (monthly email newsletter);
• New Mexico Media Literacy Project (offers three email lists);
• Free Press (email alert list)
• and more. Check the Media Literacy Online Project's organization list, which is so big, it's divided into four alphabetical sections.

Email newsletters

See above organizations, plus:

• "CONNECT" from the Center for Media Literacy
• "MediaWise eNews" from the National Institute on Media & the Family
• Media Education Foundation email newsletter
• "Weekly Spin" from the  Center for Media & Democracy (PR Watch)
• "Culture Jammers Network" is a listserve maintained by Adbusters
• Stay Free! magazine has an email newsletter on mass media and popular culture