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Media Literacy Resources
(See "Gigs, Events, and Articles" for published articles written by Alexis Ladd)

This list is far from exhaustive as there is a growing amount of media literacy material available. In any movement, there are a variety of approaches. Use media literacy skills to make certain that you know who created the material before you use it as a source.

Educational Resources

• Children Online Newsletter, www.childrenonline.org
• Harvard University, Learning and the Brain, www.harvard.edu
• Jean Kilbourne, www.jeankilbourne.com
• Media Institute at Wheelock College – Diane Levin and Gail Dines, www.wheelock.edu
• Media Education Foundation, www.mediaed.org http://www.kids-in-mind.com
• Media Literacy Project, www.medialiteracyproject.org
• Media rating system: 
• The Story of Stuff, www.storyofstuff.org 

Organizations

• Alcohol Justice (formerly the Marin Institute) -- www.alcoholjustice.org
• CCFC – Campaign for Commercial Free Childhood, www.commercialfreechildhood.org
• Empowered By Play -- Geralyn Bywater McGlaughlin -- www.empoweredbyplay.org  
• FAIR -- national media watch group -- www.fair.org
• Kaiser Family Foundation -- health and media -- www.kff.org
• Massachusetts Media Literacy Consortium -- www.massmedialiteracyconsortium.com
• Stop Porn Culture, www.stoppornculture.org
• TRUCE – Teachers Resisting Unhealthy Children’s Entertainment, www.truceteachers.org 

Books Relating to Sexualization and Gender Roles

• Beauty and Mysogyn, Sheila Jeffreys
• Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Peggy Orenstein
• Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy
• Getting Off,  Robert Jenson
• Hooking Up, Kathleen Bogle
• The Lolita Effect, Gigi Durham
• Not for Sale, Christina Stark and Rebecca Whisnant
• Pornified, Pamela Paul
• Pornland, Gail Dines
• Pornography, Gail Dines
• So Sexy So Soon, Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne
• Unhooked, Laura Sessions Stepp

Books Relating to Violence

• The Macho Paradox, Jackson Katz
• Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill, Lt. Col. Dave Grossman and Gloria DeGaetoano
• Violent Video Game Effects on Children and Adolescents, Anderson, Gentile, and Buckley

Books Relating to Culture, Consumerism, Media

• Born to Buy, Juliet B. Schor
• Buy, Buy Baby, Susan Gregory Thomas
• Consuming Kids, Susan Linn
• The Corporation, Joel Bakan
• Free Range Kids, Lenore Skenazy
• Guyland, Paul Kimmel
• Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich
• No Logo,  Naomi Klein
• Odd Girl Out, Rachel Simmons
• The Overspent American:  Why We Want What We Don’t Need, Juliet B. Schor
• Packaging Girlhood, Sharon lamb and Lynn Mikel Brown
• Packaging Boyhood, Sharon Lamb and Linn Mikel Brown
• The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids, Madeline Levine
• Reality Bites Back, Jennifer Pozner
• Gender, Race, and Class in Media, Gail Dines and Jean M. Humez
• The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser

Books Relating to Discrimination, Racism, and Privilege

• Am I Blue, Marion Dane Bauer
• Black Bostonians, James and Lois Horton
• Colorblind, Tim Wise
• The Heart of Whiteness, Robert Jensen
• The Hip Hop Wars, Tricia Rose
• Uprooting Racism, Paul Kivel
• White Like Me, Tim Wise
• Witnessing Whiteness, Shelly Tochluk
• "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?", Beverly D. Tatum
• Yello-Oh Girls, Vicki Nam

• The Internet Playground, Ellen Seiter
• Remote Control Childhood: Combating the Hazards of Media Culture, Diane E. Levin
• Safe Practices for Life Online, Doug Fodeman and Marje Monroe

• Appetite for Profit, Michele Simon
• Diet for a Hot Planet, Anna Lappe
• Eaarth, Bill McKibbon
• Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
• Garbageland, Elizabeth Royte
• Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating, Jane Goodall
• In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
• Last Child in the Woods, Richard Louv
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma, Michael Pollan
• The Story of Stuff, Annie Leonard

• A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink
• Blink, Malcom Gladwell
• Mindset, Carol Dweck
• 7 Things Your Teenager Won’t Tell You, Jenifer Lippincott and Robin Deutsch

Periodicals 

• Middle Ground – a publication for middle school educators, often features media literacy articles
• New Moon Magazine, www.newmoon.org
• Teaching Tolerance, published by the Southern Poverty Law Center
• Teen Voices, www.teenvoices.com