Watch and learn! Carefully selected media links will help bring key concepts and theories to life, preparing you for your studies and exams.

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Audio Links

• Race Beat: Bob Garfield interviews Gene Roberts, former executive editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer and managing editor of The New York Times, the co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle and the Awakening of a Nation. This book is a portrait of a reporter during the Civil Rights Movement.

• “Does Marching Digitally Send a Message?” from NPR News: Croteau & Hoynes show how the model of the media and the social world can be applied to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In this audio clip, the role of social media on the modern fight for civil rights is considered. How can the modern civil rights movement still be understood with the model of media and the social world, considering the shift to new media and social media?

Video Links

• Bhutan: The Last Place: The tiny nation of Bhutan finally allowed television into the country in 1999. Watch this clip to see the effect of the introduction of mass media on a society.

• Did You Know 4.0?: This video presents current facts about media use in a visually engaging manner.

• “Photos That Changed the World” by Jonathan Klein of Getty Images: a stock photo service that supplies many images to media organizations around the world. Klein talks about the power of iconic images of important historic events. (Note: Some disturbing images.)

• The Most Wired Place on Earth: In this clip from Digital Nation, visit South Korea, one of the most technologically saturated societies in the world.

• Watch this trailer for Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood.

Web Resources

• Media Access Project. Online research resources from the Media Access Project.

• Media Online. A Directory of media from around the world.

• The Media Education Foundation. Produces educational materials on the role of media in society.

• Media Education Lab. Media literacy project at Temple University, with a variety of online media education resources.

• The Media History Project. Resources on everything from petroglyphs to pixels.

• American Journalism Review. Website of a national magazine focused on the news media.

• Vanderbilt Television News Archive. A comprehensive archive of national television newscasts since 1968.

• The Internet Archive. A digital collection of texts, audio, moving images and software, as well as archived webpages.

• Sociological Images. A blog that shares sociological insight about media images.

• Cyborgology. A blog by sociologists on the everyday effects of technology.