Resources

  • Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age

    January 10, 2008

    Criticizing the FCC's proposal to eliminate current rules limiting ownership of media, Cooper powerfully demonstrates the need for structural limits on media ownership to promote democratic discourse.

  • What Every Citizen Should Know About Digital Rights Management

    January 10, 2008

    A comprehensive resource that explains the increasingly complex and highly technical issue of digital rights management — and why every citizen should care.

  • Grassroots Journalism

    January 10, 2008

    A how-to-do-it book for the kind of newswriting that does not just get people aroused, but gets them engaged in the struggle to build a better world. A valuable tool for citizens who want to make a difference.

  • Manufacturing Consent

    January 10, 2008

    A brilliant analysis of the ways the media are influenced to shape major social agendas. Herman and Chomsky show that free-market media lead inevitably to narrow reporting.

  • Culture, Inc.: The Corporate Takeover of Public Expression

    January 10, 2008

    Herb Schiller's classic scathing critique of corporate attack on public spaces of all kinds.2

  • Nike v. Kasky-- Corporate Right To Lie?

    January 10, 2008

    In this case, the California Supreme Court ruled that Nike could be sued for false advertising over working conditions in its overseas plants.

  • Hand-Held Visions: The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media

    January 10, 2008

    Filmmaker, video activist, and media critic Dee Dee Halleck provides tools for anyone interested in using community video for social change, along with a scathing inditement of Big Media and a call to

  • Your Right to Federal Records

    January 10, 2008

    Questions and answers on the Freedom of Information Act and Privacy Act.

  • Freedom of Information Act, The: A User's Guide

    January 10, 2008

    This brochure provides a general description of the federal Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") and specific guidelines on how to use it effectively.

  • Censorship Basics

    January 10, 2008

    The ALA's resource link on intellectual freedom, censorship challenges, and the right to read. Includes information on first amendment rights.

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