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

• On the Media: Is the FCC Too Weak?:The FCC Commissioner talks about what he sees as the ideal changes he’d like to see in the organization.

• Growing Neutrality: The FCC Chairman seeks to expand net neutrality, on which major service providers push back.

• “Jordan Accused of Targeting Online Dissent”: This story considers how a totalitarian government is dealing with citizens’ use of new media.

• “Wild, Wild Web: Policing an Early, Lawless Internet”: This interview features an author whose book focuses on how the government has become more involved in regulating the Internet since its early days.

Video Links

• A Shared Culture: A brief introduction to the Creative Commons, its purpose and goals.

• Money for Nothing: A Media Education Foundation documentary that shows how media conglomeration affects musicians and controls the music market. Features interviews with independent musicians who have tried to work outside the system.

• TED Talks: Howard Rheingold on Collaboration:Howard Rheingold talks about the coming world of collaboration, participatory media and collective action -- and how Wikipedia is really an outgrowth of our natural human instinct to work as a group.

• TED Talks: Johanna Blakely: Lessons from fashion’s free culture: Johanna Blakely talks about how the fashion industry benefits from its lack of copyright law.

• “This Film is Not Yet Rated” This documentary film investigates and critiques the MPAA rating system.

Web Resources

• Center for Media Democracy. Reports on the public relations industry.

• The Freedom Forum. A foundation that promotes free speech and free press.

• Alliance for Community Media. Works to broaden access to electronic media.

• The Benton Foundation. Promotes public interest uses of media and telecommunications.

• Center for Democracy and Technology. Focuses on policy related to free expression and privacy on the Internet.

• The Center for Digital Democracy. Information and analysis about digital media policy.

• Electronic Frontier Foundation. Works to protect free speech on the Internet.

• Federal Communications Commission (FCC). U.S. government media regulatory organization

• Free Press. National media reform organization focused on media and telecommunications policy.

• Media Research Center. Conservative media watch group.

• Creative Commons. Organization which encourages sharing and remixing of cultural content.

• Save the Internet. An off shoot of Free Press dedicated to Net Neutrality.