WMS 290: Women and Media
Fall Semester, 2005
Selected Web Resources
Media Images: Women and Girls
About-Face--"don't fall for the media circus" group combats negative and distorted images of women in the media.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)--"promoting and ensuring fair, accurate and inclusive representation" in the media to fight homophobia.
The Gender Ads Project--website featuring over 1,600 ads organized in topical areas.
Girls, Women, + Media Project: What Are You Looking At?--"increase awareness of how pop culture and media represent, affect, employ, and serve girls and women and promote media literacy."
Media Education Foundation (MEF): Challenging Media--good links for Gender, Media Literacy, and Media Education.
Mind on the Media--"to inspire independent thinking and foster critical analysis of media messages."
Gender & Media Module: Links--includes Representations of Women in the Media.
Resources for Change--from the website of Jean Kilbourne, pioneer in the work on women and advertising.
WINS (We Insist on Natural Shapes)--to change body images in the media and promote healthy lifestyles.
Feminism and Women's Studies
Feminist.com--"grassroots, interactive community by, for, and about women."
Feminist Majority Foundation Online--"working for women's equality"; includes Feminist Research Center.
International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF)--to strengthen women's role in the news media worldwide - "no press is truly free unless women share an equal voice."
NOW (National Organization for Women): Media Activism--activist links and more.
Subject Listing of Women and Gender Resources--from the University of Wisconsin.
Women's Studies Resources--general and subjects such as music and media.
Women and Gender Studies Web Sites--from the American Library Association.
Women's Studies/Women's Issues Resource Site--from the University of Wisconsin.
Media Literacy
ACME (Action Coalition for Media Education)--response to the threat of transnational corporation media ownership.
Adbusters--"global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."
AlterNet.org: MediaCulture--"infomediary" to battle information overload and to support democracy.
Communication Studies: Gender, Race, and Ethnicity in Media--includes Advertising, LesBiGay, Media (feminist, film, mixed, television) from the University of Iowa.
FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting): Women's Desk--national media watchgroup analyzes sexism, racism, and homophobia in the media.
Independent Media Center--"Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical, accurate, and passionate tellings of truth."
Media Awareness Network--media and information literacy for young people.
Media Research Center: America's Media Watchdog--"leader in documenting, exposing and neutralizing liberal media bias."
MediaChannel.org: a Global Network for Democratic Media: Women's Media: Issue Guide--"...as the media watch the world, we watch the media."
Well Connected: The Center for Public Integrity: Ownership Database--check Asheville.
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