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available from Center for the Digital Future,
USC Annenberg School
- Fifth Study of the Internet (revealing major new trends in online use for political campaigns) (free 19-page download of highlights
of the 2005 Digital Future Report)
available from
Free Expression Policy Project at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law
- What Are the Mass Media, and Who Owns Them?
- The Effects of a Consolidated Mass Media System
- Regulating the Structure of the Broadcasting Industry
- The First Amendment and Government Regulation of the Mass Media
- Regulating the Structure of the Cable Industry
- Internet Access and "WiFi"
- Licensing, Going Digital, and Using the Broadcast Spectrum
- Low-Power Radio and Other Noncommercial Alternatives
- The Media Democracy Movement
available from Free Press
- Media Policy 101
- Media Reform Action Guide
- 10 Things Big Media Doesn't Want You to Know
- 10 Questions About Media to Ask Every Candidate and Elected Official
- Waging the Media Battle (essay by Robert McChesney)
available from Media-Awareness, the awesome Canadian media literacy site
Search for Teacher Lesson Plans (on the right-hand gray bar) for materials on Consumerism and The Global Citizen
available
from the Media
Education Foundation
- Focus on Video News Releases (VNRs)
- 10 Reasons Why Media Education Matters (poster, 8"x11")
- Media Ownership Activities
- Media Ownership & Regulation
- 20 Ways to Be a Media Activist
- How to be a Critical Media Viewer
- War Games: Thinking Critically About Video Games That Play at
War
- plus written transcripts of the many of their DVD films
available from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Many archived reports with excellent, reliable data from national opinion polls, some on topics related to the American 2004 elections, perceptions of political news, and more.
available
from PBS TeacherSource
Many lesson plans and activities
searchable by grade level, but not many for this topic area. See
items on Affluenza in the High
School/Social Studies/Economics section.
available from Reporters Without Borders
Let us know about the downloads you find on this topic which aren't listed here. Thanks for visiting!
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