Welcome to an exclusive service of MediaLiteracy.com -- links to free downloadable media literacy fact sheets, discussion guides and other materials, cross-indexed by subject category. We are also beginning to add links to sites such as UthTV (which has a Teacher Resources section) with student-produced videos that could be useful in the classroom.

Some print-media downloads are easy-to-print PDF files which require the free Adobe Reader software to open. Download Adobe Reader here.

available from the Center for the Digital Future, USC Annenberg School

• Use of the Internet by Latinos (not about representation, but related to diversity and the Internet)

available from the Media Education Foundation

The following Study Guides were created for use with the excellent videos and DVDs produced and sold by the Media Education Foundation. As stand-alone materials, you will still find them useful for reference purposes.

• Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity
• Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Images of Women (37pages, a large PDF file)
• Slim Hopes: Advertising & the Obsession with Thinness (also 37 pages)

available from the National Institute of Media and the Family

• Children's Advertising and Gender Roles
• Media's Effects on Girls: Body Image and Gender Identity

available from Children Now (fee for online purchase and download)

• Fall Colors 2003-04: Prime Time Diversity Report
• Fair Play? Violence, Gender and Race in Video Games
• Local Television News Media’s Picture of Children
• A Different World: Native American Children's Perceptions of Race and Class in the Media.
• Reflections of Girls in the Media
• Boys to Men (series of three): Sports Messages About Masculinity; Entertainment Media Messages about Masculinity; and Conference Report on Media Messages About Masculinity.

available from Media-Awareness, the awesome Canadian media literacy site

Here's an excellent free lesson plan to help students grade 9-12 explore the issues surrounding representation of non-white people in the newsroom and in daily newspapers. Also, you can type stereotypes in the Search box at the upper right of the site's homepage (orange bar) for links to excellent materials.

available from UthTV

Student-produced videos with some categorized by classroom-related topic, including quite a few on Identity and Immigration.