Links by Topic
Want to know more? There are many different organizations that can help you do that. We've provided some links below that will help you go more in depth on different topics and issues. Although we've screened them, their presence on this links page doesn't mean they represent our view or that we endorse their content. We just think it's a service to you, our members, to show you the range and scope of other organizations who also are active in the kids' media world.
Facts and Tips about Media and Kids/General Interest
Media Literacy/Media Education
Kids and Advertising
Internet Safety
Government Guidelines for Kids and Media
Media Ratings and Reviews
Media Access and Diversity
Media and Gender
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Related Links
Facts and Tips about Media and Kids/General Interest
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Helping parents, children, and pediatricians become more aware of the effects of media on children's health, the Media Matters Campaign advocates for media education to combat these problems.
American Psychological Association
Link to a research-based paper exploring the effects of violence in television on children.
The Anti-Drug
A drug use prevention information center.
Cable in the Classroom
Cable in the Classroom is the cable industry's education foundation. It focuses on using media and technology to improve teaching and learning for children in schools, at home, and in their communities. For more than ten years, CIC and the National PTA have been helping parents and families learn about media literacy and critical television viewing.
Children Now
A non-partisan, research and action organization with extensive inforamtion and news on children's media issues.
Connect for Kids
An award-winning multimedia project that helps adults make their communities better places for children and families.
Kaiser Family Foundation
The Kaiser Family Foundation explores the role of mass media messages in children's lives. This web site contains facts and statistics related to media use and related policy issues.
The Marin Institute
An advocacy and action group working to reduce alcohol problems by affecting marketing campaigns and alcohol policy.
National PTA
This web page gives parents tips and advice about monitoring children and television, including a list of key points to consider while watching TV.
Parents' Action for Children
Parents' Action provides parents educational materials and fights for issues such as early education, health care, and high-quality and affordable child care.
PBS Parent's Guide to Children and Media
This web page gives parents specific advice about different media types according to their child's age and provides tips for using media productively.
The Television Project
An educational organization that helps parents understand how television affects their families and community, and propose alternatives that foster positive emotional, cognitive, and spiritual development within families and communities.
TV-Turnoff Network
TV-Turnoff Network encourages children and adults to reduce their television viewing and has created two programs promote this cause: TV-Turnoff Week and More Reading, Less TV.
Media Literacy/Media Education
Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME)
ACME is a strategic network linking a variety of groups involved in media education, reform and health issues. The organization develops, distributes, and promotes media literacy curricula, advocates independent media, and supports media reform efforts.
Alliance for a Media Literate America (AMLA)
AMLA is a non-profit membership organization that seeks to expand media literacy education to all students, teachers, and parents, empowering all people to be critical thinkers and creative producers of media messages.
Center for Media Literacy
The Center for Media Literacy is a non-profit organization that promotes and supports public education about media literacy.
Media Awareness Network
The Media Awareness Network produces online programs and resources that help young people understand their relationship to various sources of media and provides tips, advice, and reference materials for parents.
MediaLiteracy.com
This site focuses on media education and gives parents, educators, health care professionals, and activists information about various media topics and issues, as well as upcoming conferences and teaching workshops.
Media Literacy Clearinghouse
This web site provides teaching resources to K-12 educators and covers a wide range of topics including media literacy, research, and policy issues.
Kids and Advertising
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
This page contains a collection of printable fact sheets covering a variety of topics related to marketing to children.
Center for a New American Dream
This campaign informs parents about the effects of marketing and commercialism on children, and offers parenting advice and tips for raising healthy kids in a heavily commercialized society.
Commercial Alert
Commercial Alert works to prevent the exploitation of children and the subversion of values by commercial culture, providing information about current programs and anti-marketing campaigns.
PBS: Don't Buy It - Get Media Smart
Don't Buy It is an interactive web site designed for kids that encourages them to think critically about media to become savvy consumers.
Internet Safety
The Children's Partnership
This web site gives parents with rules, recommendations, and other resources for providing a safer Internet environment for their children.
GetNetWise
GetNetWise is a resource for parents which contains Internet safety information related to privacy, unwanted e-mail and spam, viruses, and children.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
This private, non-profit organization provides services to prevent the abduction, endangerment, and sexual exploitation of children and provides information on Internet safety.
SafeKids
SafeKids is a family-friendly guide for making Internet technology safe and fun, offering a newsletter, software security tools, and tips for parents.
Government Guidelines for Kids and Media
Federal Communications Commission
The FCC web site for parents contains information about the rules and ratings that regulate television programming content.
Federal Trade Commission
www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy
The FTC web site on kids privacy has audio information about the 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, as well as safety guidelines for parents, children, and teachers.
Media Ratings and Reviews
American Library Association
Navigate this electronic version of ALA's Booklist magazine to find short reviews and top 10 lists of great books for kids.
Computing with Kids
The online version of the Choosing Children's Software Magazine reviews a new children's software program every week.
Entertainment Software Rating Board
Explaining the video and computer game rating system, this web site features a searchable ratings listing of titles by keyword, age group, content, platform, and publisher.
Internet Content Rating Association
This site, created by Internet leaders, explains the voluntary "descriptive vocabulary" ratings system used by Internet content providers.
Movie Mom
Movie Mom provides parents with the information they need to decide which movies, DVDs and videos are best for kids ages 2 through 18.
National Institute on Media and the Family
The National Institute on Media and the Family is a research-based organization whose mission is to maximize the benefits and minimize the harm of media on children and families through research, education, and advocacy. The site also rates video games with a "go, caution, or stop" and considers violence, fear, harmfulness (by imitation), language, nudity and sex.
Parental Media Guide
The Parental Media Guide is a one-stop resource that explains the different parental guideline and rating systems for movies, television, recorded music, and video games.
The TV Parental Guidelines
This web site explains television programming ratings and the V-Chip.
Media Access and Diversity
Center for Digital Democracy
"Committed to preserving the openness and diversity of the Internet and the encouragement of noncommercial, public interest programming."
Digital Divide
This site offers information, tools, and resources to help people understand and bridge the gap between those who can effectively use information technology and those who cannot.
Media and Gender
About Face
A site that promotes positive self-esteem and combats negative and distorted images of women. This site is self-diagnosed as extremely sarcastic and contains mature images. (17+)
Dads and Daughters
A national nonprofit advocating for fathers and daughters. Offers parenting tips, a newsletter, and other informational resources.
Girls, Women + Media Project
A non-profit initiative and network working to increase awareness of how pop culture and media represent, affect, employ, and serve girls and women---and to advocate for improvement in those areas.
MediaWatch
A national, not for profit feminist organization working to eliminate sexism in the media that has produced many educational print and video resources related to the media's portrayal of women and girls.
New Moon
Besides offering New Moon magazine (advertisement free) for girls 8-14, this site has resources, activities, and links to help build a safe community where girls can express themselves.
Demandit.org
Demandit.org exists to improve the way women are portrayed in advertising. It dissuades companies from disrespecting and objectifying women and encourages using more realistic women in ads.
