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Disney

• Disney Archives
• Disney through the Web looking glass, Brian Martin and Brian Yecies, First Monday, volume 9, number 6 (June 2004)
• Animating Hierarchy: Disney and the Globalization of Capitalism, Lee Artz, Global Media Studies, volume 1, issue 1, Fall 2002
• Spectre over London: Mary Poppins, Privatism and Finance Capital, Jon Simons, Scope, July 2000
• Deconstructing the Walt Disney Animation The Lion King: Its Ideology and the Perspective of Hong Kong Chinese, Vicky Wong, KINEMA, Spring 1999
• The Mousetrap: Inside Disney's dream machine, New Internationalist, Issue 308, December 1998
• Redesigning Pocahontas: Disney, the "white man's Indian," and the marketing of dreams, Gary Edgerton and Kathy Merlock Jackson, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Summer, 1996
• Disney and its conservative critics: images versus realities, Ronald E. Ostman, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Summer 1996
• The audience in the wilderness: the Disney nature films, Margaret J. King, Journal of Popular Film and Television, Summer 1996
• Animating Youth: the Disnification of Children's Culture, Henry A. Giroux, originally published in Socialist Review 24:3 (1995), pp. 23-55. Reprinted as "A Disneyzacao Da Cultura Infantil," in Tomaz Tadeu Da Silva and Antonio Flavio Moreira, eds. Territorios Contestados (Brazil: Vozes, 1995), pp. 49-81
• Islam, Animation and Money: the Reception of Disney's Aladdin in Southeast Asia, Timothy R. White and J. E. Winn, KINEMA, Spring 1995

Issue Placement

• The Power of the Media: A Handbook for Peacebuilders, edited by Ross Howard et al., European Centre for Conflict Prevention in cooperation with the European Centre for Common Ground and the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS)
• Entertainment Education and Health in the United States, Kaiser Family Foundation, Issue Brief, Spring 2004
• Policy makers stake a claim to TV soapbox, Murdo Macleod, Scotland on Sunday, 9 May 2004
• Media interventions to promote responsible sexual behavior, Sarah N. Keller and Jane D. Brown, Journal of Sex Research, February 2002
• Effects of an Entertainment-Education Radio Soap Opera on Family Planning And HIV Prevention in St. Lucia, Peter W. Vaughan, Alleyne Regis and Edwin St. Catherine, International Family Planning Perspectives, Volume 26, Number 4, December 2000
• The Soap Summit, Tracy Rysavy, Yes! Magazine, Winter 1998

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Coverage

Collective Resources

• Media Awareness Network
• Accuracy in Media
• Center for Public Integrity
• On the Media, produced by New York Public Radio
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
• Nieman Watchdog

Crime / Police

• See also: Violence / Terrorism / War
• Amber Alert: Best Practices Guide for Broadcasters and Other Media Outlets, NCJ 208481, April 2005
• Primer on Covering Victims, Frank M. Ochberg, Nieman Reports, Vol. 1, No. 3, Fall 1996
• Fear Factor: The Role of Media in Covering and Shaping the Death Penalty, Susan Bandes, Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, Spring 2004
• Media Power and Information Control: A Study of Police Organizations & Media Relations, Jarret S. Lovell, Final Report, NCJRS, Document No. 197060, October 24, 2002
• Child abuse and the media, Chris Goddard and Bernadette J. Saunders, Child Abuse Prevention Issues, Number 14, Winter 2001

People and Groups

• Women in Film and Television: A Bibliography of Selected Materials in the UC Berkeley Libraries, Berkeley
• Female "thin ideal" media images and boys' attitudes toward girls, Duane A. Hargreaves and Marika Tiggemann, Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, November 2003
• Roundtable on the Portrayal of Young Women in the Media, Status of Women, Canada, March 1997
• Lipstick Imperialism and the New World Order: Women and Media at the Close of the Twentieth Century, Margaret Gallagher, Division for the Advancement of Women, Department for Policy Coordination and Sustainable Development, United Nations, December 1995
• Gender and Violence in the Mass Media, ERIN Research, Report Prepared for the Family Violence Prevention Unit, Health Canada, 1993

Science / Medicine / Technology

• The Commercialisation of Medical and Scientific Reporting, Timothy Caulfield, PLoS Med. 2004 December; 1(3): e38
• A Study of Entertainment Media and Health, Kaiser Family Foundation
• Science and Technology: Public Attitudes and Understanding: Public Knowledge About S&T, chapter 7 in Science and Engineering Indicators, NSF, 2004
• Research about the Mass Media and Disaster: Never (Well Hardly Ever) The Twain Shall Meet, Joseph Scanlon, Emergency Management Institute, FEMA
• Newspaper Coverage of Zebra Mussels in North America : A Case of "Afghanistanism"?, Donny Roush and Rosanne Fortner, Electronic Green Journal, June 1996

Violence / Terrorism / War

• The Blogs of War: A Review of Alternative Sources for Iraq War Information, Paul S. Piper, Searcher, February 2005
• Iraq War 2003, media coverage of the war in Iraq, University of Birmingham
• Role of the Press in the Anti-Terrorism Campaign, Brookings Institution
• Real Time Television Coverage of Armed Conflicts and Diplomatic Crises: Does it Pressure or Distort Foreign Policy Decisions, Nik Gowing, Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Working Paper Series, #1994-1
• Football Violence in Europe, media coverage of football hooliganism, Social Issues Research Centre
• The Effect of Television Violence on Children: What Policymakers Need to Know, Hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, 108th Congress, 2nd Session, September 13, 2004, Serial No. 108–116
• Influence of Media Violence on Youth, Craig A. Anderson, et al., Psychological Science in the Public Interest, vol 4, no. 3, December 2003
• Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General, especially chapter 4 and appendices

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