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Advertising in the Media - Curricular resources and instructional materials for teachers and students. Lots of useful links. Part of the Community Learning Network.
BADvertising: Honest Tobacco Advertising - Site devoted to tobacco education and spoof tobacco advertisements. Features a comprehensive gallery of these altered tobacco ads.
Commercial Alert - Helps families, schools, and communities defend themselves against commercialism, advertising, and marketing. Campaigns focus on culture, education, government, and economy. Includes ideas for action, mailing list, news, and research library.
Electric Snow: TV in Our Time - A student-created site geared toward students ages 12 to 18 to be more aware of themselves and the way they are influenced by television.
Kids and Commercialism - Campaign to teach more about the effects of advertising and marketing on kids, and practical tips to deal with this growing problem. From the Center for a New American Dream.
Liquid Candy: How soft drinks are harming Americans' health - This review discusses the nutritional impact and health consequences of massive consumption of soft-drinks, particularly in teenagers. Covers aggressive marketing techniques.
Selling America's Kids: Commercial Pressures on Kids of the 90's - Consumers Union report surveys trends in marketing directed to kids, and points to problems that should be addressed by parents, schools, and the government.
Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children - Organization against advertising and marketing to children. Events, links, how to join, newsletter, and press releases.
Target Market - Explores impact of advertising in education and public spaces. Contains long paper, "Advertising as a Behavioral Science", by Michael Cyrus Abadi.
Testimony on Channel One - Ralph Nader's testimony before the United States Senate on commercial television in schools.