Zeum: is San Francisco's interactive arts center where young people can explore and produce visual, performing and media arts using technology as a creative tool. 415.777.2800

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC): is the nation's largest nonprofit media arts center dedicated to providing access to media, education, and technology. They offer classes and workshops in addition to publishing a media handbook. 415.861.3282

Media Alliance: is a nonprofit training and resource center open to the public. They offer classes, and publish MediaFile, the Bay Area's media review magazine. 415.546.6334

About-Face: is a media literacy organization based in San Francisco based group that combats negative and distorted images of women in the media. 415.436.0212

Grade the News:a website that helps citizens of the San Francisco Bay Area assess the quality of the news they rely upon to maintain and enhance a vibrant democratic society. 650.938.1950

Electronic Frontier Foundation: preserving Free Expression through upholding rights to digital free expression from political, legal and technical threats, empowering people to maintain their privacy and control their digital identity, ensuring that systems are designed to respect people's rights, such as free speech, privacy and fair use. 415.436.9333

Project Censored: finds the stories behind the iron curtain of the corporate media, revealing the news that did not make the news. 707.664.2500

NewsWatch: a project of the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism, San Francisco State University Journalism Department. 415.398.8224

Plugged In: established in 1992, is a community technology with a mission to ensure that everyone in East Palo Alto California has the opportunity to fully benefit from all that the information revolution has to offer. 650.322.1134

Artists' Television Access: a nonprofit, artist-managed media arts center. Recognizes the increasingly influential role of media in contemporary society, and the need to broaden involvement with, understanding of, and dialogue about film, video, and multimedia as tools of communication and artistic expression. 415.824.3890

The Center for Commercial-Free Public Education: is a national nonprofit organization that addresses the issue of commercialism in our public schools. The Center provides support to students, parents, teachers and other concerned citizens organizing across the US to keep their schools commercial-free and community-controlled. 510.268.1100

Nationwide Sites

Adbusters: Adbuster's describes itself as "a global network of artists, writers, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to launch the new social activist movement of the information age. Our goal is to galvanize resistance against those who would destroy the environment, pollute our minds and diminish our lives."

Mediascope: is a national, nonprofit research and policy organization working to promote issues of social relevance within the entertainment industry. Its principal objective is to encourage responsible portrayals in film, television, the Internet, video games, music and advertising. 818.508.2080

People for Better Television: is an organization that strives for better television. It offers recommendations and information on current issues concerning the media as well as ways to take action. 888.374.PBTV (888.374.7288)

Links with lots of links

Yahoo's Media Ethics and Accountability Section: lots of links to media ethics and accountability organizations.

Yahoo's Media Literacy Section: lots of links to media literacy organizations and materials.

About.com's Media Section: daily information and news about media.

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