- 'Undoubtedly the finest communication studies site in the world'
Department of Communication Studies, University of Iowa - 'The definitive UK media studies site'
Hannah Davies, Institute of Education, University of London - 'From semiotics to soap operas, if it's communications scholarship, it's here'
WebCrawler Select - 'One of the best resource pages on the Web'
Professor Ron Burnett, President, Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design, Canada - 'An essential first stop in beginning a review of the communications cyberliterature'
American Library Association - 'One of the very best UK sites'
Tony Pearson, Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies, University of Glasgow - 'An extensive, well-designed resource'
Alan Liu, Voice of the Shuttle - 'An amazing compendium of links and resources'
Dr Don Slater, Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths' College, University of London - 'The definitive site for British media studies'
Gerald Grow, Professor of Journalism, Florida A&M University - 'What makes this site valuable is its breadth and selectivity of coverage'
John December, The World-Wide Web Unleashed - 'A great place to begin a process of understanding media'
John December, The World-Wide Web Unleashed - 'The fullest range of references in the area of Media and Communication'
English & Media Centre, London - 'A great gathering of up-to-date and well-sorted encyclopedic resources'
Applied Semiotics - 'A great site for communication theory'
Samuel Ebersole, Associate Professor, Mass Communications Department, University of Southern Colorado - 'The indispensable Media & Communication Studies Site'
Dr Dan Fleming, Head of Media Studies Division, University of Ulster at Coleraine - 'An excellent guide for all kinds of resources'
Dutch Electronic Subject Service - 'A comprehensive collection of Web resources for the academic study of media and communication'
WebCrawler Select - 'An excellent array of topical sites'
University of Houston Libraries - 'What an undertaking... Under deconstruction'
Excite NetDirectory - 'Excellent stuff'
Bob Craig, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado at Boulder - 'It has been described as one of the very best UK sites on the Web for media studies. We agree.'
Australian and New Zealand Communication Association - 'Really quite brilliant!'
John A Dowell, Department of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University - 'Un site britannique i-n-c-o-n-t-o-u-r-n-a-b-l-e pour les chercheur-se-s en communication médias'
COMMposite, Département des Communications de l'UQAM, Canada - 'A massive holding of information'
MediaForum, Minnesota - 'Un remarquable assortiment de ressources encyclopédiques'
Sémiotique Appliquée - 'À consulter absolument!'
Marie Josée Drolet, EBSI, Université de Montréal - 'De MCS is een startpunt van onschatbare waarde voor wetenschappelijke studies op het gebied van media en communicatie'
Planet Internet - 'An excellent resource for materials'
Media Literacy Online Project, College of Education, University of Oregon - 'Innholdsrik side som vedlikeholdes av Dr Daniel Chandler, University of Wales. Denne er bra!'
Anette B Wollebæks, Norwegian School of Management - 'Loaded with links to sites and pages on many areas in media'
Dr Richard Taflinger, Edward R Murrow School of Communication, Washington State University - 'Top-WWW-Links für Medienwissenschaft'
MSN Deutschland - 'Great web pages'
University of Iowa Libraries - 'An easily navigable area for the student and teacher of film or media'
Film Studies, Humanities Department, University of Karlstad, Sweden - 'Excellent links to critical studies in media technology'
Students of the Advanced Computer Technology Class, Iowa State University - 'Perhaps the most comprehensive media literacy site in the world'
Neil J Lehto, Michigan/Citizens for Media Literacy - 'An extensive and very useful site concerned with media studies, using media in the most catholic sense of the word'
Marist College, New York - 'Great media studies links including the best place I have found for locating introductions to things like semiotics'
Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland - 'An extensive list of relevant links as well as on-line papers'
Centre for Research in Culture and Communication, Murdoch University - 'A fabulous resource!'
Mary Jo Watts, Rutgers University - 'The range and depth of coverage is huge and the excellence of the content is matched by the presentation'
Ashgate Arachnid, UK - 'Think you know everything there is to know about media? Check out the all-encompassing Media and Communication Studies Site.'
The Online Communicator, Philadelphia - 'An extensive resource for online communications scholarship'
Marylhurst College, Oregon - 'Expanding and useful... a key site'
Media Studies Department, Pakuranga College, New Zealand - 'The complete collection of media links'
Applied Media Skills Programme, University of Joensuu, Finland - 'A simply fabulous resource'
Department of Psychology, Brock University, Canada - 'Probably the best single resource available'
Communication Studies Department, Sheffield Hallam University - 'This is a major bookmark'
Chicago Filmmakers' Resources - 'A comprehensive site from the University of Wales on a wide range of communications and media studies scholarship.'
Temple University Libraries - 'A comprehensive communications site'
Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota - 'Este tal vez sea uno de los sitios más completos en el Internet que trate temas de Comunicación'
Escuela de Comunicación Social, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, Venezuela - 'Hyvä paketti myös multimedian tekijälle'
Hämeenlinna City Library, Finland - 'Excellent'
Dr Michael Guest, Associate Professor, Information Arts, Shizuoka University, Japan - 'One of the best UK sites'
University of Ulster Library - 'Fantastic!'
David Toccafondi, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, University of Pennsylvania - 'The best single source for media information'
John Black, Freder, Idaho - 'One of the most comprehensive sites on the subject'
McGill University Libraries, Canada - 'Eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Informationen, Links und wissenschaftlichen Beiträgen über Werbung und Medien'
ComMarket.de: Die Homepage der Kommunikation - 'An excellent British guide to communication-related sites'
Communication Arts and Sciences, Calvin College, Missouri - 'An academic media and communications site covering every aspect of media and cultural studies'
Routledge Cultural Studies Resource Centre - 'A major UK gateway to media information'
Edith Cowan University Library, Australia - 'Täydellinen linkki-lista media-alalta'
Applied Media Skills Programme, University of Joensuu, Finland - 'Erg interessant voor de communicatiestudent met links naar de pers, audiovisuele sector, telecom maar ook studies binnen het domein van de communicatiewetenschappen.'
SMIT, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - 'The Media and Communication Studies Site has whatever you're looking for'
POD, Newcastle, Australia - 'A very thorough list of links to resources in television, broadcasting and media studies'
Ariadne, UK - 'A well-organized site and uses frames exceedingly well'
John December, CMC Magazine - 'This is a comprehensive, British-based gateway to Web resources, intended to serve the academic study of media and communication'
Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University - 'A fantastic collection of media resources'
Jim Robertson, Glendale High School, Tillsonburg, Ontario - 'Comprehensive site with a global approach'
SUNY at Buffalo Libraries - 'Gente agradable y muy high-tech. Artículos para leer.'
El Amante, Argentina - 'Ausgezeichnete Seiten, Schwerpunkt Großbritannien'
Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Fakultät, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg - 'Excellent resources focusing on the study of media and communication'
@BRINT Research Initiative - 'Mega site. Information, opinions, resources, links - it's all here.'
Educators' Page, University of Toledo, Ohio - 'Interesting ideas, a deservedly popular introduction to semiotics, and some elegant and witty Web design'
Joseph Rézeau, Université de Rennes - 'El servidor más completo... Pero también ocupan un lugar importante los estudios específicamente semióticos. Seguro que encuentras lo que buscas'
Departamento de Lingüística General, Universidad de Granada - 'É considerado hoje como um dos melhores sites europeus para o estudo de midia'
Faculdade de Comunicação da UFBA, Brazil - 'Just about everything you've ever wanted to know about media - but were afraid to ask'
Mark Rouncefield, Department of Computing, Lancaster University - 'A thoughtful, quality-controlled site with many useful academic links' - Department of Theatre, Film & Television Studies, University of Glasgow
- 'A comprehensive collection of Web resources for the academic study of media and communication'
AOL Editor's Reviews - 'The virtual centre for media studies in the UK'
Dr David Buckingham, Institute of Education, University of London (f2f, 11/2/98) - 'Think you know everything there is to know about media? Check out the all-encompassing Media and Communication Studies Site'
The Online Communicator - 'This is a well-organized site and uses frames exceedingly well'
Mick Doherty, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - 'An excellent, comprehensive resource'
American Studies Program, Washington State University - 'Perhaps the most comprehensive media lit site'
Connect, the Journal of the Center for Media Literacy, Los Angeles - 'A marvellous site... Don't miss it'
Department of English, University of Queensland - 'Quite literally tops my link lists for just about all my courses'
Dr J Michael Jaffe, Department of Communication, University of Haifa - 'An imaginative website'
Graham Davies, President, European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning - 'This excellent site lists many academic resources for communication and film students'
Greg Peterson, Notre Dame Women's College, Kyoto - 'An encyclopedic gathering of resources'
Vincent W Hevern SJ, Psychology Department, Le Moyne College, Syracuse, New York - 'The best site for communications and media as a whole... a mega site... for academic study of media and communications'
Chuck Dintrone, Reference Librarian, San Diego State University - 'Useful site for all areas of Communication Studies'
University of Dayton Libraries - 'Possibly the best "meta-index" site we have seen. The range and depth of coverage is huge and the excellence of the content is matched by the presentation. Well worth a browse.'
Médaille d'Or Roll of Honour, Higher & Further Education - 'Considered perhaps the most comprehensive media studies site. Overflowing with links to media articles, research, educators, organisations, industries, advocates etc.'
Deakin University Library - 'One of the best collections of media and communication resources I have discovered'
Mick Underwood, Further Education lecturer, UK - 'An indispensable goldmine of information'
G Minnerup, Debatte, Department of German Studies, University of Birmingham - 'A most excellent media resource page'
Graham McBeath, Sociology Department, Nene College of Higher Education - 'A fantastic site... strongly recommended by AEB for help with its Media Studies A Level'
Shelley Harris, Beaconsfield High School - 'Excellent site'
Catholic Education Office, Sydney, Australia - 'A very comprehensive index of web sites'
Multimedia Resource Center, University of California, Irvine - 'The Media and Communication Studies site has whatever you're looking for...'
The pOd, Newcastle, Australia - 'An excellent, comprehensive site'
Stephanie Tripp, English Department, University of Florida - 'This is the mother of all sites for students of media and communication... An excellent starting point'
Eivind Saetre, Undergraduate student of Communication Studies, Queen Maragaret College, Edinburgh - 'I continue to find the MCS site to be an invaluable resource for background and material for my own high school media and English classes. This site is probably the best, continually developing, site of its type and in this field. I wish others would provide such material'
Peter J McLean, Perth, Western Australia - 'Le design des pages est en effet très "classe"'
Joseph Rézeau - 'A good resource for sites and papers, particularly from a culturalist perspective'
Dr M Mark Miller, School of Journalism, College of Communications, University of Tennessee - 'This is the finest and most complete specialized site I know about'
Dr Enrique E Sanchez Ruiz, Guadalajara, Mexico - 'First class site, including an enormous resource of media and communications links'
Journalism UK - 'A wonderful media literacy resource site'
Gerald Austin, Know TV, Discovery Channel - 'A massive holding of information'
MediaForum, Children, Youth and Family Consortium, University of Minnesota - 'Up-to-date information on media-related topics'
Scout Report - 'A scholarly resource for finding communication research and information online'
Communication Department, Pacific Union College, Angwin, California - 'A brilliant UK site for those teaching media/communications studies'
Deirdre McIntosh, English teacher, UK - 'A great site for media students!'
Radio Production and Criticism Students, School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne - 'Eine riesige Sammlung zu allen Bereichen der Medienwissenschaft und -pädagogik'
Schulnetz Schweiz - 'Excellent site'
Dr Ben Attias, Department of Speech Communication, California State University - 'Huge meta-list of links to media resources... There's lots of information here that could be useful to students and teachers of media studies.'
Community Learning Network, Canada - 'Excellent UK gateway to media and communications web resources'
Dublin City University Library - 'A very impressive site of resources for those people studying the media'
Lowestoft College - 'A vast collection of academic articles and resources'
Glasgow WebSite for the study of Theatre, Film and Television - 'A researcher seeking information about almost any communication topic will likely find a link worth pursuing at this site.'
Dr Mary Ellen Guffey, textbook author, English and business communication - 'Breathtaking in its scope and range of interest'
Allison Oosterman, Communication Studies student, New Zealand - 'My first stop every time I have to write an essay'
Priscilla Blake, Media student, Australia - 'This site is a treasure of analysis, original works and commentary on topics essential to research in media, communications and technology.'
Eugene G Kowch, PhD Candidate, College of Education, University of Saskatchewan - 'British-based MCS is a scholarly diamond in the rough. The fact that
it does give priority to the interests of British scholars and UK media
should not deter American scholars or students from using this excellent
source of essays, information and links... This site is so comprehensive
that users could spend many hours exploring its full potential... No US
sites are as comprehensive or as nicely designed as MCS. Highly recommended
for academic and professional audiences.'
P S Thomas, Illinois State University, Choice: Current [Web] Reviews for Academic Libraries, 1997, Vol. 34 Supplement, p. 51 - 'La información que usted ofrece en este sitio ha sido muy útil para mí'
Marcela Guzman, estudiante de Maestría en Comunicación en la Universidad de Costa Rica - 'Mother Site of Media/Communication Studies'
Rafal Kaniewski, Education Officer, Youth Cable Television (UK) - 'The best web site for media studies teachers'
Rudi Keoghan, Media Studies teacher, Shropshire - 'Very valuable for teaching A level Media Studies. Puts Aber on the map'
Mari Lewis, Media Studies teacher, Essex - 'DIE britische MCS-Seite - für universitäre und berufliche Anwendungen äußerst empfehlenswert!'
University Library of Trier - 'Contacts et essais sur toute la question de média'
International Newspaper Marketing Association - 'The long list of journals... makes this a particularly useful site.'
Cinema & Media Studies Librarian, La Trobe University - 'An excellent resource for information relating to the study of media and communications'
Department of Communication Studies, University of Liverpool - 'This is an excellent UK-based place to start searching for Media Studies resources on the internet.'
Information Services, University of Sussex - 'Lots of useful material and more links than a hedgehog has fleas'
TV & Popular Culture Team, University College, Suffolk - 'Everything you ever wanted to know about the Media'
NexusBBS, New Zealand - 'The greatest thing since sliced McLuhan!'
John Hostler, Indiana University - 'An impressive set of links to academic resources on new media'
Online Journalism Review - 'A vast site'
New Jersey Journal of Communication - 'Linkkejä keskusteluryhmiin ja postituslistoille sekä mahdollisuus
seurata tämän sivun päivityksiä'
University of Art and Design Library, Helsinki - 'Svært informativ side med linker til mye media-relatert stoff'
Bjorn Aas, Danvik School of Media and Communication, Drammen, Norway - 'It's incredible!'
Francisco Urbistondo, journalist, Telenoche, Buenos Aires, Argentina - 'A bloody brilliant resource and an exemplary site'
Jon Watts, Division of Social Sciences, Humanities and Education, Murdoch University - 'Not only fun, but very informative as well'
Media student, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia - 'Easily the best media site on the web'
Michael Frontani, University of Ohio - 'Ricca e curata rassegna di links relativi a materiali per lo studio dei vari media e delle diverse prospettive di studio delle comunicazioni di massa'
Centro Interstrutture di Servizi Informatici e Telematici per le Facoltà Umanistiche, Università di Torino - 'A very comprehensive site based at Aberystwyth... Well worth a look'
Cultural Studies, Napier University - 'Mange henvisninger til artikler og bøger om forskning i de forskellige sider af medierne'
Kirkeligt Medieforum for Unges (KMU), Denmark - 'An excellent... wonderful site... well worth a visit in itself...
links to many other useful sites - including a wealth of academic papers'
d'Overbroeck's (Sixth Form) College, Oxford - 'One stop media info shop. Blissful.'
Yvonne Adhiambo Owour, University of Reading - 'Very nicely done. One of the best I have seen of the kind.'
Dr Kent D Palmer, Administrator of Thinknet email lists - 'A host of resources on all forms of communication'
Billie Wahlstrom, Department of Rhetoric, University of Minnesota - 'An excellent starting point... This huge site is well organised and comprehensive'
Tom Barrance, Trac: Media Education Wales - 'One of the most advanced collections of on-line media texts'
Media Department, Concordia International University, Estonia - 'This is a fabulous resource'
Valeria Buitrón, Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago - 'A useful first stop in exploring what is available on a number of
media-related topics on the Web... The site offers literally thousands
of links to Web sites... devoted to the study of media and
communication. Its value is found in the comprehensiveness and
up-to-dateness of its collections.'
David Silver, Graduate Student, Department of American Studies, University of Maryland - 'This site contains an enormous database with links to a wide range of
sites concerned with media and communications'
Film & Television Studies, University of Amsterdam - 'The best British site, with excellent international links.'
Carleton University Library - 'The best of its kind... for communication studies'
John Brine, New Zealand - 'A superb collection of links, papers, and brief introductions to a wide range
of communications topics.'
Gordon A Gow, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University - 'Een van de rijkste websites over communicatiekunde'
Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen - 'A superb research tool for students and media-watchers alike.'
UK Plus - 'Excellent... Here you can find anything from a history of the telephone to an
introduction to semiotics, as well as links to other useful pages.'
The Ethical Spectacle - 'A beautifully rendered and extremely comprehensive resource with a very
well-organized bibliography. Take a look at it now, and bookmark it!'
Jennifer Thayer, Cablevision - 'Er geysilega fróðlegur og vel skipulagður vefur sem tengist beint eða óbeint
fjölmiðlafræði, en hefur einnig að geyma mjög fjölbreytilegt efni um myndir, myndmál, myndlestur, ljósmynda- og
kvikmyndastúdíur, o.s.frv.'
Gunnar J Árnason - 'Excellent and comprehensive list of sites and documents.'
Dr Alan Finlayson, Department of Politics, Queen's University of Belfast - 'As comprehensive a media studies resource as one could ask for'
Paul J Kelly, Calumet College, York University, Canada - 'It's the best. I couldn't get along without it'
Robin Markowitz, Cultural Studies Central - 'An excellent site for communication scholarship. British-based, well-constructed, and easy to negotiate'
O Cope Budge Library, Southern California College - 'Dedicated to new developments in Cultural Studies, this site provides useful direction for researching modernity
and cultural identity'
Tom Rogers, graduate student, Department of Communications, Georgia State University - 'A comprehensive site overflowing with links to media literacy articles, research, educators,
organizations, industries... etc.'
Justice for Kids and Youth, US Department of Justice - 'This is an excellent UK-based place to start searching for Media Studies resources on the Internet'
Arts Librarian, University of Southern Queensland - 'Mycket informativ webbplats för filmvetare och mediaforskare. Länkar, artiklar,
diskussionsgrupper och mycket mera. Särskilt givande för cultural studies
studenter.'
ITCampus, Sweden - 'Lovely site, lots of interesting links, well worth a visit... Take a packed lunch and
make a day of it.'
Hudddersfield Irish Project, University of Huddersfield - 'An extensive and clearly laid out site'
Social Science Information Gateway (UK) - 'An excellent resource and well-maintained web-site'
Professor James R Elkins, College of Law, West Virginia University - 'Great resource for all topics related to communication'
Department of Communication, Appalachian State University - 'One of the best resources to found on the web concerning communication science'
Edwin Colebunders, student of Communication Science, Brussels Free University - 'Siento que si estas páginas no existieran, la finalidad de las
comunicaciones y de la cercanía del aprendizaje que parece el sino del
2.000 se perderían'
Paloma Pérez del Real, psychologist, Spain - 'The most comprehensive listing of quality resources in the area of media studies
encountered in this survey'
Chris Wright, The Internet for Students - 'Very well organised, comprehensive and interesting... It is an excellent example of what
a good academic site should be'
Noel Gilzean, Behavioural Sciences, University of Huddersfield - 'Een van de rijkste websites over communicatiekunde'
Prof Gisela Redeker Department of Language and Communication, University of Groningen - 'One of the richest teaching resources I have seen'
David Holman, Tacoma, Washington State - 'Wonderful media studies site'
Dr Will Garrett-Petts, Associate Professor, English & Modern Languages, University College of the Cariboo, Canada - 'Fine academic web site. It has been a true pleasure to use'
Cheryl Radice, University of Delaware - 'Superb site'
St Francis (6th Form) College, Clapham - 'This is a very rich site with a wide range of materials on various aspects of communication
theory and media studies'
Terrence Doyle, University of Northern Iowa - 'Una muy útil colección de enlaces, documentos, estudios y textos sobre comunicación. El
sitio es sostenido desde Inglaterra por Daniel Chandler, de la University of
Wales-Aberystwyth. Su contenido, pese a todo, está preponderantemente dirigido a la
comunidad académica británica.'
Sala de Prensa, Web Para Profesionales de la comunication iberoamericanos - 'A labour of love by Daniel Chandler at Aberystwyth... pointing the way to where geographical
diaspora can be counteracted - online'
Dr Dan Fleming, University of Ulster - 'This site is vast and authoritative. It hosts a tremendous amount amount
of articles and materials on a very broad range of media topics whilst
also offering one of the most useful, well-organised and voluminous
set of sound media studies links available anywhere on the Web.'
CTI Centre for Textual Studies, Humanities Computing Unit, Oxford University - 'A site that is easy to navigate, over-flowing with information, helpful, and generally terrific'
Penelope Karovsky, teen-media.net - 'The best Mass Media studies site I've found'
Michael G Nagy, Mass Communications graduate student, University of Houston - 'An ideal model for all other academic-oriented websites'
Terra Lepper, Oakland, California - 'It has what I think are the essential qualities of an excellent website: well written, clearly structured and actually works'
Sarah Gilligan, Lecturer in Media, Hartlepool College of Further Education - 'A wonderful site all round'
J David Black, Communication Studies Program, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada - 'Definitely the best web-site in the academic world'
Rita Goh, Singapore - 'The MCS site is an extraordinarly useful reference source.'
Dr Roberta Astroff, Humanities Librarian, Pennsylvania State University - 'A useful tool to anyone interested in Media and Communications... The site is an excellent resource!'
Laura DiBenedetto, Master's student in Media Ecology, New York - 'Marvelously digestible essays and background on media theorists- I'd be lost without it'
Megan Sapnar, graduate communication student, Washington DC - 'Highly recommended'
Adam Nieman, University of the West of England - 'Excellent and comprehensive collection of resources'
Editor, Literacy in the Information Age Section, Open Directory - 'A comprehensive catalogue of research studies and information on different aspects of media and communication'
Bird-online - 'Great site - one of the best resource for media studies I've seen'
Peter Clayton, mediastudies.com - 'This is an essential site..., a site I often use myself for research and teaching... It is also such an attractive site to wander around. It... shows what a leading role Wales takes in promoting media education/literacy/studies'
Dr Geoff Lealand, University of Waikato, New Zealand - 'Invaluable resource for teachers, students and researchers in media studies'
Professor Radha Misra, Dept. of Communication Media for Children, SNDT Women's University, Pune, India - 'Wonderful media studies site'
John Ramirez, Associate Professor of Film/TV Studies, California State University, Los Angeles - 'The best site on the Web for Communications studies'
Open Directory: Arts/Literature/Poetry/New Media - 'The most comprehensive site I have seen on Mass Communication'
Chuck Whitten, Professor of Journalism and Broadcasting, College of the Canyons, Santa Clarita, California
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