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Media literacy education
membership organizations in the U.S.

(see International Links for many organizations based outside the U.S.)

• National Association for Media Literacy Education (formerly AMLA, the Alliance for Media Literate America). Highly recommended for public school educators. NAMLE is the oldest and largest membership organization for K-12 and college/university media literacy educators. Members also include public health experts, child and youth advocates, community activists and more. The NAMLE sponsors a bi-annual conference, has a monthly email newsletter for members, and has launched the online Journal of Media Literacy Education. Excellent resources on the website.
  
  
• Educational associations whose conferences often include media literacy-related programming include the National Council of Teachers of English and National Council for the Social Studies.

Conferences and workshops on media literacy education

These groups are not "membership" organizations per se, but they do offer information and/or conferences & workshops with media literacy education programming:

• National Telemedia Council - the Wisconsin-based NTC sponsors occasional international videoconferences of media literacy educators, with numerous U.S. sites participating. It publishes the Journal of Media Literacy.
• Media Literacy Project (formerly called New Mexico Media Literacy Project)
• Free Press: outstanding group doing work on media reform. Email newsletter and activist alerts.
• Check our own calendar of media literacy education conferences and events.

Media literacy education-related Email newsletters

See above organizations, plus:

• Common Sense Media: excellent information, media reviews and email alerts on media for children and families .
• Weekly Spin email newsletter (see subscription box in right-hand sidebar) from the Center for Media & Democracy (PR Watch)
• Adbusters: Journal of the Mental Environment takes a radical approach to media and culture, and has an email newsletter
• Stay Free! magazine has an email newsletter on mass media and popular culture