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Center for Media Literacy has a vast collection of articles, although many of them were from the 1980s and 1990s. Most of the articles appeared in a journal titled, Media & Values. Some articles of interest are “Today’s Image Culture and Why Media Literacy Matters,” “Television and Consumption,” “Power of Images: Creating the Myths of Our Time,” and “Rise of the Image Culture” to name a few.

PBS Teachers is a great site for teachers. I found some great off-shoot sites like the following:

About-Face: Don’t Fall for the Media Circus! A website whose “mission is to equip women and girls with tools to understand and resist harmful media messages that affect self-esteem and body image.” I highly recommend you watch Covert Dressing Room Action, a YouTube video found on this site.

Media Awareness Network: I found a great article titled, “Beauty and Body Image in the Media.” A great quote from this article is by Robin Gerber, author and motivational speaker. "We don’t need Afghan-style burquas to disappear as women. We disappear in reverse—by revamping and revealing our bodies to meet externally imposed visions of female beauty."

Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation: A site that conducts lengthy studies and surveys. One such survey generated the article, “Generation M: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-olds.” The “survey found children and teens are spending an increasing amount of time using ‘new’ media like computers, the Internet and video games, without cutting back on the time they spend with ‘old’ media like TV, print and music. Instead, because of the amount of time they spend using more than one medium at a time (for example, going online while watching TV), they’re managing to pack increasing amounts of media content into the same amount of time each day.”