Our Intention |
What's On This Site |
Who Writes/Edits This Site |
How To Use This Site |
Tech & Credits
Our Intention
This website was created as an information-exchange space for groups using advocacy and activism to improve the media system. The focus is on organizations and events, building our strategies and learning from each other. While CIMA is based in the U.S., and this is our primary frame of reference for the material on this site, we do work in a global context and within global movements: much of the material here is also relevant for advocates in other regions. Several excellent websites already provide daily news, action alerts, policy campaigns and articles about media issues; instead, our site is about the work of advocacy: information and communication to help us become more effective in our organizations and in our collective efforts.
This site is an extension of CIMA’s existing work. Since early 2003 we have been providing a regular calendar of media-activist events – it's now online and interactive. In November 2003 we published the first edition of the Media Policy Action Directory, featuring hundreds of organizations fighting media concentration – we now feature several Directories from partner sites expanded, electronic and searchable. We have also been writing, collecting and sharing reports, research and other tools and documents to reflect on and strengthen the field. These are now all online and organized in collaborative libraries, where any registered site member can contribute writings, comments and links.
NOTICE: This site is offered as an archive of resources and is not currently being updated. (last update January 2009)
For links to several excellent, active groups working for media justice and communication rights, check out the front page.
What's On This Site
MediaActionCenter.org features both full-text documents as well as annotated links to resources on other sites. For an explanation of the different site sections, visit the home page or the front page of each section:
Who Writes/Edits The Site
We do, and you do. Any registered member of this website is able to contribute calendar items, suggest organizations for the directory, upload original documents or post a recommended link. To keep content focused, CIMA staff will occasionally edit posts, but we will remove only clearly “off topic” contributed materials.
How to Use This Site
Know about a great tool, article, report or other resource to share? We invite you to post web links to materials on other sites, submit book recommendations or upload your own writings. Please respect author copyrights and do not post any copyrighted material that doesn't belong to you unless you have written permission from the author. You can also post and read comments about any item featured on this site.
Original content on this site is provided under a creative commons license as an improvement to standard copyright. Click here for more information.
Tech and Credits
This site was created by CIMA: Center for International Media Action with support from the Ford Foundation, the List Foundation and the Phoebe Haas Charitable Trust. It runs on Drupal, an open-source platform that supports community-edited websites. MediaActionCenter.org was built by Brenton Cheng, updated by Rajendra Serber and designed by Marianna Trofimova.
