Media/Pop-Culture

Gender Ads
Gender Ads.com was begun a number of years ago to provide gender studies educators and students with a resource for analyzing the advertising images that relate to gender. Its founder, Dr. Scott A. Lukas, had produced a PowerPoint that focused on gender and advertising, and because students had requested copies of the presentation, he decided to produce a website to host the images and interpretations. Since the PowerPoint was produced with 100 images, the website has grown to over 2,500 advertising images, and it is one of the largest collections of gender-related advertising materials on the Internet.

Guerrilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls are a group of women artists, writers, performers, film makers and arts professionals who fight discrimination. They use humor to convey information, provoke discussion, and show that feminists can be funny.

Magazines and Newsletters on the Web (women-focused)
Links to articles about women's magazines as well as a long list of links to free women's magazines on the web.

The Commercial Closet
This association works to improve public opinion of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community through more effective and informed GLBT depictions in the powerful medium of advertising.

Gender Genie
Supposedly guesses the sex of a passage's writer with 80% accuracy.

Killing Us Softly 3
Companion website to Jean Kilbourne's video Killing Us Softly 3. Contains study guide as a PDF. file

Gender & Race in Media
A large collection of pointers to websites addressing the interface of race, sexuality and culture. Maintained by the University of Iowa Department of Communication Studies.

Center for Media & Democracy
A nonprofit, public interest organization funded by individuals and nonprofit foundations and dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. The Center serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices.

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.