Ten More Resources

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article79.html
Television and media promote a worldview hat newer and more developed is always better.

http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/issues/stereotyping/ethnics_and_minorities/index.cfm
Media does not keep up with the ethnic and cultural diversity of contemporary society.

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article568.html
This article fights the most common negative perceptions of the media.

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article637.html
There’s a downloadable PowerPoint presentation about how children learn to associate letters with brands before knowing the ABC’s.

http://gpn.unl.edu/cml/cml_product.asp?catalog%5Fname=GPN&category%5Fname=The+Merchants+of+Cool&product%5Fid=1441
Teens are being marketed more than ever. They are exposed to over 3,000 ads per day, and companies spent nearly $200 billion per year on advertising alone.

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article81.html
“Dependence on television is training for adaptation to consumer society. On the one side, television watching, like the rest of the high-consumption way of life, is motivated by a search for pleasure, escape, and anesthesia; on the other, dependence on television is dependence on the prepackaged forms through which pleasure, escape, and anesthesia can be comfortably and conveniently procured.”

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article124.html
“What are the values that mass media communicate to us on behalf of or culture? Power heads the list: power over others; power over nature. As Hannah Arendt points out, in today's media world it is not so much that power corrupts as that the aura of power, its glamorous trappings, attracts. Close to power are the values of wealth and property, the idea that everything can be purchased and that consumption is an intrinsic good. The value of narcissism, of immediate gratification of wants, and of creature comforts follow close behind.”

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article80.html
Communication by image is displacing that which is oral or written.

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article64.html
This article is entitled “Deadly Persuasion: 7 Myths Alcohol Advertisers Want You to Believe.” It uses concrete examples of how these advertisements lie and manipulate.

http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article274.html
This article claims that the reason we watch what we do is because what is watch is just like us.