MEDIA HISTORY SITES:

There are several great media history sites that provide information on the development of this nation's mass media system from sociological, as well as a technological, perspectives. The American Journalism Historian Association's Media History Project has excellent--and quite extensive--images and archival information on topics such as: advertising messages from past eras, the evolution of radio and television transmitting and receiving equipment, telegraph apparatus, printing technology and more. The Morse Telegraph Club of America's site contains an extensive history of the telegraph as well as reviews of books on the subject, a directory of telegraph archives and color illustrations of various kinds of sending and receiving equipment. The History Net provides an "at-a-glance" perspective of key events in American and world history, making this an excellent reference site to bolster course readings.

MEDIA ETHICS SITES:

The Freedom Forum's Newseum is an an excellent site for gleaning additional information about newsworthy events in history and presents a unique slant on media ethics issues. Another good general site is produced by the journalism school at San Francisco State University. The the Law Journal's Master Data Center provides excellent coverage of legal and ethical issues relating to "cyberspace" and interactive media. The Annenberg School of Communication and the Columbia Journalism Review also provide excellent coverage of responsibility issues pertaining to conventional and computer-mediated communication. A resource for codes of ethics of various domestic and international media-related associations is produced by the Illinois Institute of Technology.