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

• The Echo Chamber Revisited: The media “echo chamber” is the idea that we are increasingly able to cherry-pick our news sources and thus reinforce our worldview.

• On the Media: 9/11 and Films: Stephen Prince explores how filmmakers have taken on the challenge of capturing the truth of the 9/11 attacks.

• “Honduran Street Artist Paints a New Image for His Country”: This piece profiles a Honduran street artist named “El Maestro” who works in advertising during the day, and tries to raise social awareness through public art at night.

Video Links

• Returning Fire: This documentary examines the influences of war video games on users, our political culture, and our capacity to empathize with people directly affected by the actual trauma of war.

• Militainment, Inc.: A clip from a documentary on the militarization of American popular culture, examining how U.S. news coverage has come to resemble Hollywood film, video games, and "reality television" in its glamorization of war.

• TED Talks: Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice: Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice.

• “When Hip-Hop Meets Politics”: A panel discussion from the Washington Post’s On Background about the intersection of hip-hop and politics.

Web Resources

• Children and the Media. Resources on media and children from the advocacy group Children Now.

• Campaign for Commercial-Free Childhood. A coalition dedicated to limited the impact of commercialism on children.

• Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR).Liberal/left media watch group that publishes Extra!.

• The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. Public opinion research focused on attitudes toward the press and public policy, including a biennial news consumption survey.

• Project Censored. Dedicated to public education about censorship and press freedom.

• Center for a New American Dream. Organization that seeks to alter American values, especially around consumerism.

• AlterNet. An independent news magazine that seeks to inspire activism on a range of social issues