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Media & News Literacy

Media representation refers to how the media portrays particular groups, communities, and experiences.

Tools and Collections

Media Representations of Disability
Information and resources from the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Re-Search
Browser extension makes image searching gender-balanced
The Representation Project
Founded by filmmaker Jennifer Siebel Newsom, who has directed two films on media representation of gender
Sociological Images on Pinterest
Collections of images around specific themes, such as Women vs People and Racial Objectification

Research & Data

Race in the Writers Room
From Color of Change, Nov. 2017
Where We Are on TV Report
From GLAAD, Nov. 2017
Film Dialogue from 2,000 Screenplays, Broekn Down by Gender and Age
From The Pudding, April 2016
Annual Hollywood Diversity Report
From the Bunche Center at UCLA

Media Representation: Videos

Some films below are available via Kanopy.

The Try Guys Get Photoshopped Like Women
From Buzzfeed video, July 2016