Resource Library

A collection of research reports, white papers, FCC filings, activist tools and much more.

  • Both girls and boys who watch a lot of violence on television are more likely to behave violently as young adults, according to a 15-year study by a social psychologist.

  • In November 2002, the Future of Music Coalition released this well-researched and data-driven study of the effects of radio consolidation on citizens and musicians (150 pages).

  • A compilation of ideas and information to assist groups in webcasting or streaming audio programs produced by youth (or others) via the internet.

  • The Producer's Guide to the Hereafter is aimed at radio producers interested in exploring alternative methods of distribution for their work including Web delivery, mail order, digital media for deskt

  • Describes the dangerous possibility of media conglomerates pre-selecting content to push on Internet users, and limiting or blocking access to unaffiliated channels, as the FCC finalizes the regulator

  • Viewers Like You?

  • Douglas explores the cultural expectations of women across class and history, and links those expectations to representations of women in the media over the last 50 years.

  • Paper prepared for the UNRISD Programme on Information Technologies and Social Development, as part of UNRISD background work for the World Summit on the Information Society, June 2002.

  • In this pamphlet, McChesney explores the corporate takeover of communications policy in the United States, and the negative implications of media mergers for democratic culture.

  • Describes in detail a global media system dominated by international conglomerates that have grown rapidly, engage in increasing crossborder activities, and are linked to each other by powerful invest

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