Aesthetics, Criticism & Effects

Preeminent motion picture association that is well known for the Oscars. The record of past Academy Award winners and nominees are included in the Academy Awards Database.

A coalition of health care professionals, educators and parents who advocate against children's' exposure to commercialism through marketing. There are almost 30 member organizations.

A unit of the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc. that offers guidelines for advertising messages to young children.

The Center for Research on the Effects of Television is based at Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. Professor Cyndy Scheibe is the director of CRETV and is assisted by a team of undergraduate psychology students.

Critical Commons is a public media archive and fair use advocacy network that supports the transformative reuse of media in scholarly and creative contexts. Critical Commons is also part of the technical and conceptual architecture of the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture and the electronic authoring/publishing platform Scalar. (about)

Members of the Academy vote and present Emmy Awards for television excellence each fall.

Non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet.

MediaCommons is a community network for scholars, students, and practitioners in media studies, promoting exploration of new forms of publishing within the field. MediaCommons was founded with the support of the Institute for the Future of the Book, and with assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Through this network, we hope to refocus scholarship in the field on the communication and discussion of new ideas in the field. (About)

Located at NORDICOM, Goteborg University, Sweden, the Clearinghouse collects research on children and the media worldwide. Some books are free online; also check the library's catalog.

Website that collates reviews from respected publications and applies an average score to the following categories: Movies, DVDs, TV shows, Music and Video Games.

A non-partisan education organization advocating responsible entertainment (website)

Presented annually since 1941 by the Grady College of J&MC at the University of Georgia the Peabody distributes awards to electronic media.