Website Resources - For Chapter 12

Global Media Monitor - http://lass.calumet.purdue.edu/cca/gmm - The Global Media Monitor acts as a major resource centre and as a clearinghouse for numerous issues related to mass media and global communications. This site has a wide range of useful links, a bulletin board for exchanging information and ideas, lists of books, journals and articles, links to international online radio and television stations, links to print media of various nations.

Undercurrants - http://www.undercurrents.org - Undercurrents is a radical, alternative and activist media organisation based in Oxford, England. This organisation aims to bring about what it calls positive social , environmental and personal change using various forms of media, in particular, video, and internet technologies. This site has an excellent archive base, community action programme and useful links.

MediaChannel.org - http://www.mediachannel.org - MediaChannel.org is a nonprofit Web site dedicated to global media issues. MediaChannel offers news, reports and commentary from an international network of media-issues organizations and publications, as well as original features from contributors and staff. Again lots of resources can be found at this site - including the excellent "media map" as well as thematic special reports, action toolkits, forums for discussion and an indexed directory of affiliated groups.

University of Iowa, Department of Communication Studies - http://www.uiowa.edu - provides a useful range of links to sites relevant to students of political communication. Covering political advertising, political speeches and interactive activities.

Political Communication Center in the Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma http://www.ou.edu/pccenter/ - The Political Communication Center in the Department of Communication at the University of Oklahoma is a major resource for political research.. The Center is the repository of the Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive®, the largest and most comprehensive collection of political broadcast advertising in the world. This archive contains around 70,000 example of political ads from the 1930s (radio) and 1950s (television) and representing candidates for offices ranging from the U.S.