Communications: Media Research

Essays, video essays, etc

Books and essays

Essential video essays

Behind the scenes & interviews

Independent films online

Experimental films and videos

SP-ARK is an interactive online project based on the multi-media archive of film-maker Sally Potter. It is designed to enhance access to, and knowledge of, film and filmmaking.

Multimedia research platform focused on music from around the world.

Search engine for broadcast information and data. Though a paid service, a free trial might be the solution for specific projects.

Box Office Mojo, owned and operated by IMDb, is one of the leading online box-office reporting service.

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

Data visualization

Visual document mining for journalists

Data journalism

Curation tool

Curation tool

Create timelines for any story

Create and share interactive videos

A Zotero group library focusing on data journalism.

An Open Access Collection of an Alternative Press.

A library of televised network news programs, part of the Jean and Alexander Heard Library of Vanderbilt University.

The historical archive (1925-1995) of the official weekly magazine from RAI (Italian public broadcasting service).

Historical archive on RAI streaming platform.

A collection compiled of Zines (personal, non-copy written, non-traditionally peer reviewed articles, journals, and art) that were specifically purchased, donated, traded, or created for the Solidarity! Collection.

A nonprofit online archive of critical writing on colonialism, post-colonialism, and encounters with the “New World.”

The search platform for the collections of the Media History Digital Library, an open access initiative led by Eric Hoyt and the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. The Media History Digital Library (MHDL) digitizes collections of classic media periodicals that belong in the public domain for full public access.

A US nonprofit media watchdog organization

Reading the Pictures is a web-based, non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and publishing organization dedicated to visual culture, visual literacy and media literacy through the analysis of news, documentary and social media images.