Media Literacy

Censored 2000: The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories
By Peter Phillips & Project Censored, Seven Stories Press, New York, 2000. Every year an increasing number of important news stories are not reported in the mainstream media. In these stories and in orginal essays, the authors examine issues such as "How multinational corporations profit from international brutality", and U.S. military intervention in the Balkans.

We the Media: A Citizen's Guide to Fighting for Media Democracy
Edited by Don Hazen and Julie Winokur, The New Press, New York, 1997.
This book features over 100 of the leading journalists, media critics, and experts in the country on who owns and controls the media, how the rapidly expanding corporate media empires and conglomerates affect what you see, hear and read, how political considerations influence what gets on the air, and how advertising pervades modern media. It also highlights the alternatives who are successfully fighting the conglomerates and demanding that media and democracy go together. It is a survival guide to navigating the new media landscape.

Zoom
By Istvan Banyai, Puffin Books, Hong Kong, 1995. In this wordless picture book, prepare to be disoriented. You are never where you think you are, and as each page turns your perspective stretches and grows. A great book for teaching how to look at the world from a different angle.