Media Studies: General and Mixed Resources
- Adventures in CyberSound
- A lot of radio of course, but also film, TV and music & multimedia. Bibliographies, biographies of sound pioneers, essays and more. This site began as an online PhD dissertation but the author, Russell Naughton, continues to develop it. Navigation is a bit chaotic, perhaps the best from which to orient yourself is the HyperIndex page.
- AMARC: World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
- AMARC is an international non-governmental organization serving the community radio movement. Its goal is to support and contribute to the development of community and participatory radio along the principals of solidarity and international cooperation.
- Audience Research
- Arbitron - Radio ratings
Audience Research Analysis - public radio research
Claritas - PRIZM segmentation system classifies neighborhoods into 62 clusters
MORI - Key Audience Research - British
Nielsen Media Research
Radio Research Consortium
SRI - VALS psychographics segmentation scheme
TRAC Media Services - public TV audience research and analysis
Books on audience research (from Audience Dialog, an Australian company)
The Listener Survey Tookit - advice for do-your-own research
NAB Audience Measurement - National Assn.of Broadcasters links to articles
Newsweek Media Research Index - "bibliography of over 700 studies"
- Broadcast Education Association
- Association information, scholarship news, convention information, links to other sites.
- Columbia Institute for Tele-Information
- The Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) is an independent university-based research center focusing on strategy, management, and policy issues in telecommunications, computing, and electronic mass media. CITI, founded in 1983, was the first research center for communications economics established at a US management school.
- Independent Media Center
- A "collective of independent media organizations and hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage."
- Hollywood Reporter
- A film, television, and music trade magazine, offers the magazine's content plus a selective, well-organized collection of links to industry resource sites. The Web magazine is published 5 days a week and headlines and news briefs are updated as needed during the course of the day. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com
- Library of American Broadcasting
- Media History Project
- "The Media History Project aspires to provide a comprehensive guide to all online materials relevant to the study, appreciation, and understanding of media history."
- Media Education Foundation: Challenging media
- "The Media Education Foundation produces and distributes video documentaries to encourage critical thinking and debate about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information, diverse representations of ideas and people, and informed citizen participation." The board of advisors includes Noam Chomsky, Jeff Cohen, Susan Douglas, Michael Eric Dyson, Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Henry Giroux, Todd Gitlin, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Jean Kilbourne, Naomi Klein, Robert W. McChesney, Jack Shaheen, John Stauber, Ellen Wartella, Cornel West, John Edgar Wideman and Sut Jhally is the Executuve Director.
- MediaStudies.com
- This site by Peter Clayton "serves as a hub - providing links to international news, media studies sites, and other resources for media educators, students, researchers, and the wider community."
- MIT Communications Forum
- An online record of years of forums devoted to all aspects of communications including the Internet, online journalism, media and culture, media studies, new media, children's culture, and cultural studies.
- Newsfilm Library at the University of South Carolina
- "Although Movietone released its final theatrical program on Oct. 1, 1963, its spirit lives on in the Movietone News archives, which today house the world's most voluminous collection of 20th-century events on film. Videoclip samples available for online viewing.
- National Public Broadcasting Archives
- The National Public Broadcasting Archives (NPBA) brings together the archival record of the major entities of non-commercial broadcasting in the United States. NPBA's collections include the archives of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), and National Public Radio (NPR) and other organizations.
- National Association of Broadcasters
- Member and industry information -- some restricted to members only.
- Paper Tiger Television and Roar!
- "Paper Tiger is a public access TV show. It looks at the communications industry via the media in all of their forms." Media criticism and how-to articles.
- Virtual Institute of Information: Cybercommunications and Mass Media Research
- The Virtual Institute of Information is a research tool accessible through the World Wide Web by anyone interested in finding information on the economic, business, policy, and social aspects of telecommunications, cybercommunications, and mass media.
Communication Studies Resources is compiled and maintained by Karla-Tonella@uiowa.edu
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August 10, 2006