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Media Smart : Canada's Centre for Digital and Media Literacy
http://mediasmarts.ca/
Media Smart : Canada's Centre for Digital and Media Literacy
MediaSmarts is a Canadian not-for-profit charitable organization for digital and media literacy. Our vision is that children and youth have the critical thinking skills to engage with media as active and informed digital citizens.
MediaSmarts has been developing digital and media literacy programs and resources for Canadian homes, schools and communities since 1996. Through our work we support adults with information and tools so they can help children and teens develop the critical thinking skills they need for interacting with the media they love.

Common Sense Media
http://www.commonsensemedia.org
We are the (USA) nation's leading independent nonprofit advocating for kids
Common Sense Media is dedicated to improving the lives of kids and families by providing the trustworthy information, education, and independent voice they need to thrive in a world of media and technology. We exist because our nation's children spend more time with media and digital activities than they do with their families or in school, which profoundly impacts their social, emotional, and physical development . As a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization, we provide trustworthy information and tools, as well as an independent forum, so that families can have a choice and a voice about the media they consume.

Media Literacy
http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/media-literacy/
Welcome to media literacy at Ofcom. We hope you find the information and links on these pages useful.

Media Awareness Network (MNet)
http://mediasmarts.ca/
Media Awareness Network (MNet)
MNet is a Canadian non-profit organization that has been pioneering the development of media literacy programs since its incorporation in 1996.
MNet focuses its efforts on equipping adults with information and tools to help young people to understand how the media work, how the media may affect their lifestyle choices and the extent to which they, as consumers and citizens, are being well informed.

The National Institute on Media and the Family
http://www.parentfurther.com/technology-media
The National Institute on Media and the Family
Founded by David Walsh, Ph.D. in 1996, the National Institute on Media and the Family, the leading organization examining the impact of electronic media on families, has worked tirelessly to help parents and communities watch what our kids watch. Follow these links to learn more about who we are and how you can become part of the MediaWise movement.
KidScore Rating System

Media Literacy Clearinghouse
http://medialit.med.sc.edu/
Media Literacy Clearinghouse

The Center for Media and Public Affairs
http://www.cmpa.com/
The Center for Media and Public Affairs
The Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media. CMPA election studies have played a major role in the ongoing debate over improving the election process.
Our continuing analysis and tabulation of late night political jokes provides a lighter look at major news makers.
CMPA is one of the few groups to study the important role the media plays in communicating information about health risks and scientific issues.

The Media Education Foundation
http://www.mediaed.org/
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.
With approximately 50 videos and a wealth of free educational resources addressing a range of political, economic and socio-cultural issues, MEF provides students, educators, activists and the general public with the tools and vocabulary required to examine how global media conglomerates shape a highly restrictive set of corporate principles that are undermining the way we educate our young people and ourselves, and therefore our founding democratic principles of freedom, fairness and social justice.