Communications & Media: Background Sources

Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, historic images, news programming, and more. Includes the Wayback Machine, which includes 510 billion web pages saved over time.

The Newseum blends five centuries of news history with up-to-the-second technology and hands-on exhibits, providing a forum where the media and the public can gain a better understanding of each other.

The ACA is a not-for-profit virtual professional association with actual presence in the world of communication scholars and practitioners. The ACA also publishes the peer-reviewed American Communication Journal.

AFI is a non-profit educational and cultural organization that provides leadership in film, television and digital media and is dedicated to initiatives that engage the past, the present and the future of the moving image arts.

Investigates and exposes public relations spin and propaganda, and promotes media literacy and citizen journalism.

From George Mason University, this is a research and educational organization that conducts studies of the news and entertainment media.

FAIR is a national media watch group that offers well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship.

IAMCR is the worldwide professional organisation in the field of media and communication research.

IRE is an educational organization promoting quality in investigative journalism.

Produces video documentaries, study guides and articles about the relationship between media ownership, commercial media content, and the democratic demand for free flows of information.

NCA is the largest national organization dedicated to communication. Researchers, educators, and professionals, work to understand and better all forms of human communication.

Enjoy documentaries, animations, alternative dramas and interactive productions on the web, on your personalized home page, or on your iPhone. Don't forget to check out our trailers, playlists and upcoming online releases. Free for personal use.

For more than 40 years, the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press has provided free legal advice, resources, support and advocacy to protect the First Amendment and Freedom of Information rights of journalists working in areas where U.S. law applies, regardless of the medium in which their work appears.

The Electronic Journal of Communication / La Revue Electronic de Communication launched in 1990 as one of the first five peer-reviewed electronically distributed scholarly journals. EJC/REC is devoted to the study of communication theory, research, practice, and policy.

Film-Philosophy is an international peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to philosophically discussing film studies, aesthetics and world cinema.

Journal affiliated with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, which was founded in 1969 to celebrate American and international cinema, to recognize and support new filmmakers, and to enhance awareness, accessibility and understanding of the art among a broad and diverse film going audience.

Images is a non-commercial quarterly web journal that includes reviews and articles on movies and popular culture.

Identify electronic journals in the field of Media and Communication that are scholarly, peer-reviewed, full text, and accessible without cost.

The Open Library of Humanities (OLH) publishes open access scholarship with no author-facing article processing charges (APCs). All of its academic articles are subject to rigorous peer review and the scholarship they publish showcases some of the most dynamic research taking place in the humanities disciplines today – from classics, modern languages and cultures, philosophy, theology and history, to political theory, sociology, anthropology, film and new media studies, and digital humanities.