The following media books, magazines, websites, blogs, media literacy programs, and media activist organizations will help you learn to become an active, critical media consumer – and can offer engaging strategies you can use to transform the media landscape for the better.
Books
Adproofing Your Kids: Raising critical thinkers in a media saturated world, Tania Andrusiak and Daniel Donahoo
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi
Beyond the Echo Chamber: How a Networked Progressive Media Can Reshape American Politics, Jessica Clark and Tracy Van Slyke
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, Lisa Jervis and Andi Zeisler
Can’t Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, Jean Kilbourne
Conscious Women Rock the Page, Marcella Runell Hall, Black Artemis, E-Fierce, and J-Love
Critical Studies in Media Commercialism and Consumer Culture and TV Programming, Robin Andersen
Don’t Believe the Hype: Fighting Cultural Misinformation About African Americans, Farai Chideya
Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences, and the Myth of the American Dream, Sut Jhally and Justin M. Lewis
Feminism and Pop Culture: Seal Studies, Andi Zeisler
From Black Power to Hip Hop: Racism, Nationalism and Feminism, Patricia Hill Collins
Girl Director: A How-to Guide for the First-Time, Flat-Broke Film and Video Maker, Andrea Richard
Hey Kidz! Buy This Book: A Radical Primer on Corporate and Governmental Propaganda and Artistic Activism for Short People, Anne Elizabeth Moore
Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere: Quit Dieting and Declare a Truce with Your Body, Kate Harding and Marianne Kirby
Media Literacy: A Reader, Donaldo Macedo and Shirley Steinberg
Real Majority, Media Minority: The Costs of Sidelining Women in Reporting, Laura Flanders
Selling Anxiety: How the News Media Scare Women, Caryl Rivers
Share This!: How You Will Change the World with Social Networking, Deanna Zandt
So Sexy, So Soon, Jean Kilbourne and Diane Levin
Style and Status: Selling Beauty to African American Women, 1920–1975, Susannah Walker
Teaching Youth Media: A Critical Guide to Literacy, Video Production & Social Change, Steven Goodman
The Media Monopoly (updated edition), Ben Bagdikian
Toxic Sludge Is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies, and the Public Relations Industry, John Stauber
Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing and the Erosion of Integrity, Anne Elizabeth Moore
Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity, Julia Serano
White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture, Chrys Ingraham
Women and Media: A Critical Introduction, Carolyn Byerly, PhD, and Karen Ross
Print and Online Magazines
AdBusters
Alternet
Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture magazine
Bust
ColorLines: Race Culture Action
Columbia Journalism Review
Extra!
In These Times
Make/Shift
Media and Gender Monitor
Media Report to Women
Ms. Magazine
New Moon: A Magazine for Girls and Their Dreams
On the Issues
PR Watch
Salon
$pread magazine
Teen Voices
The Nation
The Progressive
Women’s Enews
World Pulse magazine
Yes! Magazine
Websites & Blogs with a Focus on Gender, Race, and Media
About Face
Bitch magazine blogs
BroadSheet
Feminist Frequency
Feministing
Gender Ads: Ads, Education, Activism
IndyMedia movement
Jack & Jill Politics
Jean Kilbourne’s Resources for Change
Jezebel
Media Matters for America
Pop and Politics
Pop Culture Pirate
PopPolitics.com
Racewire, the ColorLines blog
Racialicious
Sociological Images
Who Makes the News
WIMN’s Voices
Independent TV, Radio , and Film
American Documentary
California Newsreel
CounterSpin
Democracy Now!
Feminist International Radio Endeavor (FIRE)
Free Speech TV
GRITtv with Laura Flanders
Listen Up!
Making Contact/Women’s Desk
Media Education Foundation
On the Media
Paper Tiger TV
Uprising Radio
WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
Women Make Movies
Films about Media Issues
A Girl Like Me, Directed by Kiri Davis
America the Beautiful, Directed by Darryl Roberts
Class Dismissed, Directed by Pepi Leistyna
Ethnic Notions, Directed by Marlon Riggs
Generation of Consolidation, Directed by Sami Muilenburg
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, Directed by Byron Hurt
Killing Us Softly, Directed by Jean Kilbourne
Slip of the Tongue, Directed by Karen Lum
The Souls of Black Girls, Directed by Daphne Valerius
Tough Guise, Directed by Jackson Katz
Media Literacy and Media Advocacy Organizations
Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME)
Alliance for Community Media (ACM)
Allied Media Conference
Benton Foundation
BeyondMedia
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Center for Digital Democracy
Center for Investigative Reporting
Center for Media and Democracy
Center for Media Justice
Center for Media Literacy
Children’s Media Coalition
Commercial Alert
Common Sense Media
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Fair Use Network
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Fairness and Integrity in Telecommunications Media Coalition (FIT Media)
Free Press (also see: www.StopBigMedia.com)
Future of Music Coalition
Girls, Women + Media Project
GLAAD—Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
Global Action Project: Youth Make Media
GoLeft.org
Guerrilla Girls
List of Journalism Associations, Coalitions, Ethnic Media, and Other Organizations for Media Makers
Women In Media & News’s list of media outlets
MAG-NET Media Action Grassroots Network
Marin Institute
Media Access Project
Media Alliance
Media Justice League
Media Literacy Project
NOMAS: National Organization for Men Against Sexism
NOW Media Hall of Shame
NYC Grassroots Media Coalition
Parents for Ethical Marketing
People’s Production House
Prometheus Radio Project
Reclaim the Media
Reel Grrls
Shaping Youth
The Media Consortium
WAM! Women, Action & the Media
Women & Girls Collective Action Network and FUFA (Females United For Action)
Youth:
Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press
Women’s Media Center
Writers Guild of America
