ACA (American Communication Association) The ACA is "the national professional organization of scholars, students, and practitioners in the field of communication studies." Links include the full text American Communication Journal. Note also the link for the Communications Study Center.
Library Resources for Communication Studies From the University of Washington, links by broad categories identify a wide range of resources, electronic and paper, useful to the study of Communication.
MCS; Media and Communications Studies Site MCS is a scholarly site from the UK for the study of media organized by broad topic, for example "Active Interpretation", "Film Studies","Textual Analysis", and "Media Influence".
Research Resources for the Social Sciences Communication
Includes Media Directories and Communication Theory.
NewsWatch.org “Key media news and criticism sites updated daily or weekly:”
Center for Nonverbal Studies Go here for the study of “body movement, gesture, facial expression, adornment and fashion, landscape architecture, mass media, and consumer-product design. All our senses--of balance, hearing, smell, sight, space, taste, time, and touch--are channels for nonverbal cues.” This site includes the The Nonverbal Dictionary©
Center for Media and Public Affairs “...a nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.” The full text of the studies are included.
C-SPAN.org C-SPAN, a private, non-profit website offering a unique look into the operation of the U.S. Congress. Provides access to both live stream and archived recordings of complete and unedited sessions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, committee hearings, White House press conferences, panel discussions, hearings, interviews, and more.
American Rhetoric Includes Top 100 Speeches, Movie Speeches, and an index to over 5,000 “full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two.”
Speech and Transcript Center “Links to sources of full-text transcripts in the areas of business, television and radio programs, government, professional organizations, and historical speeches.”
Media History Project This University of Minnesota site aims at promoting the study of media history from "petroglyphs to pixels." It includes an extensive timeline and well-organized links to related sites.
Local TV News Media Project From the University of Delaware, “This site contains a searchable database of over 10,600 individually digitized local television news stories from across the U.S. Each story is viewable in its entirety.” See also Television News Archive, Vanderbilt University, an archive from 1968.
Old-Time Radio “If you are interested in radio programs from "radio's golden age", these are the WWW pages for you. They are filled with many entertaining and educational topics for fans of nostalgic / old-time radio shows.”
Television Production “A Free, Interactive Course in Studio and Field Production.” Yes!
Don Page
djpage@csupomona.edu
July 2008
