Communication Theory

• CCMS Communication, cultural and media studies infobase
  A searchable database of resources in communication, culture and media geared specifically to students, with definitions and articles.
• MCS: The Media and Communications Studies Site
  Though a U.K.-based site, provides useful links for all communication students and media researchers. Divided into 20 sections, including: Media Education, Media Influence, Textual Analysis, News Media, TV and Radio, IT and Telecom, Popular Music and Youth Culture
• Cyberspace, Hypertext and Digital Media
• www.theory.org.uk
  A site by David Gauntlette from the University of Leeds, with links and resources on selected communication theorists and topics.

Portal Sites

• Online Communications Studies Resources
  From the University of Iowa, Department of Communication Studies, an extensive collection of links organized by suject such as advertising, cultural studies, digital media, film studies, gender, ethnicity, rhetoric, journalism and media studies.
• Cultural Studies Central
  Provides links to cultural studies resources as well as discussion and analysis.
• Media History Project: Net Links
  Hosted by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota.
• World wide cultural eresources
• Women's Studies Resources: Communication and Media

Canadian Broadcasting and Telecommunications Resources

For Canadian news media see Canadian news media

• Canadian Communications Foundation: History of Canadian Broadcasting
  Resources and highlights of Canadian radio and television broadcasting history, includes some audio files, and a bibliography and directories.
• Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission CRTC
  Includes broadcasting and telecommunications industry reports and resources such as broadcast monitoring reports, industry statistics, statues and regulations, and ownership charts
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Major Corporate and Regulatory Submissions
  Includes the submissions of the CBC to the Housing of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, March 2002 and May 2002. Includes statistics on television viewing habits in Canada, CBC annual reports.
• Canadian Association of Broadcasters
  Includes the submission of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage: State of the Canadian Broadcasting System. Includes a statistical overview of the Canadian broadcasting system, and trends Canadian use of radio and television.
• Friends of Canadian Broadcasting: Analysis of the CAB Submission:
  Includes submissions and presentations on policy to CRTC and parliamentary bodies as well as reports and studies.
• Canadian Broadcast Standards Council
• BBM Canada
  Provides top radio and television reports by week, for national and Quebec markets.
• Directory of CBC Television Series: 1952 -1982
  A directory of television programs produced in Canada and broadcast by the CBC. Each entry includes an informative summary of the program.
• Television Bureau of Canada
  Offers TV viewing trends for Quebec and Canada.
• Canadian Media Fund
• Canadian Society for Independent Radio Production
  The "Radio Resources" link offers "training resources" on radio, a listing of Canadian campus, community, native, and non-commercial radio stations, and a resource list of radio sites.
• Canadian Heritage. Broadcasting.
  Information on broadcasting policies, organizations and regulations.
• Statistics Canada: Tables by Subject, Radio and Television
  Statistics on radio and television viewing and industry. See also Estat and Cansim databases to access additional reports.
• Broadcasting Database: Industry Canada

U.S. and International Broadcasting and Telecommunications

U.S. news media see U.S. News Media

• Benton Foundation
  Provides news and information on U.S. telecommunications legislation, broadcasting and ownership
• Federal Communications Commission. Media Ownership
• Museum of Broadcast Communications
  Provides a digital archive of radio and television broadcasts including "Top 125 Political Moments", radio shows, television shows and broadcast commericals.
• Encyclopedia of Television
• Broadcast Pioneers Library of American Broadcasting
• Vanderbilt Television News Archive
  Indexes and abstracts news broadcasts from major U.S. networks. Includes streaming audio for NBC news from 1968 onwards, and CNN from 1995 onwards.
• BBC World News/Diniacopoulos Project and its Archives
  Concordia University, Centre for Broadcasting Studies maintains an archive of BBC World Service English Network Radio News from 1970 to 1986.

Film and Video

• Internet Moving Images Archive: Movie Collection
  
• NFB: Focus on Animation
  70 animated shorts from the National Film Board of Canada that may be viewed online.
• Documentary Lens
  Offers a selection of documentaries that may be viewed online.
• From Nanook to Oumigmag: Documentary Film in Canada
  A virtual exhibition on 50 key documentary films from the Cinematheque Quebecoise and the National Film Board of Canada. Video clips, posters, images from selected films from 1890 to the present. Information on documentarists and production companies.
• Cinematheque Quebecoise
• Telefilm Canada
• Canadian Film and Production Association,
• Montreal Film & Television Commission
• Quebec Shooting Guide
  A directory of resources to shooting film in Quebec
• Le Quebec s'affiche
• Plan de soutien au cinema et a la production audiovisuelle

Sound Archives

Canadian

• CBC Archives
  A selection of CBC radio and television audio and video clips from the archives of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Organized by topic, with contextual notes.
• Les archives de Radio-Canada
  A selection of radio and television audio and video clips from the archives of Radio-Canada.
• Virtual Gramophone: Canadian Historical Sound recordings
• Enregistrements Sonores
  From the Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec, 2000 recordings online, indexes include chronologically from 1900 to 1952, by composer, performer, genre and record label.
• Phonotheque Quebecoise: Musee du Son
  A sound archive for Quebec. Includes resources (texts and bibliographies) on the history of sound, music and radio in Quebec and real audio sound clips from French and English language radio stations.

U.S. and International

• Recorded Sound Reference Center
  From the Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
• British Library, National Sound Archive
  The catalogue of the British Library Sound Archives. A very limited number of soundtracks are available for listening online. To find these do a keyword search on "virtual nsa".
• Broadcast Pioneers Library: LAB Soundbites
  Soundbites from the Radio Advertising Bureau Collection
• American Rhetoric
  Includes an impressive array of audiofiles of recorded media divided into categories including, the Online Speechbank, Figures in Sound, Movie Speeches, the Rhetoric of Post 911.
• UC Berkley Lectures and Events
  Includes some interesting audio clips of prominent people who have spoken at Berkley including Noam Chomsky, Margaret Mead, Malcom X, Michel Foucault and others.
• Media Burn
  An archive of independent documentary video produced from 1972 to 2002
• Universal Newsreels
  From the Internet Archive, presents over 600 newsreels from 1929-1967

Other Public Communication

• Canada's Digital Collections
  A main portal site to Canadian digital colletions, arranged by topic.
• BNQ Collection numerique
  Digital collections from the Bibliotheque Nationale du Quebec
• ArchiviaNet
  A research finding tool to collections related to the National Archives of Canada.
• Library and Archives Canada: Electronic Collection
• American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
  Click on "Collections finder" to see how the collections are organized.
• Ad*Access
  A searchable database of historical advertisements. To retrieve Canadian advertisements, you may limit by country of publication. For U.S. historical advertisements, see also The Emergence of Advertising in America digital collection.
• Gifts of Speech: Women's speeches from around the world

Associations

For Canadian broadcasting associations, see the links under Canadian Broadcasting. For journalism associations, see Journalism: Internet Resources

• Canadian Communication Association
• Canadian Public Relations Society
• American Communciation Association
• National Communication Association
• International Communication Association
• American Society for the History of Rhetoric
• Scholarly Societies Project: Communication & Media Studies