Non-profit associations

National Institute on Media and the Family. (2008). Media wise. Watch what your kids watch. Retrieved June 10, 2008, from http://www.mediafamily.org/

Founded in 1996, the National Institute on Media and the Family attempts to help parents monitor what their children watch. It is a reseach organization that provides parents with information regarding both the positive and negative effects of media. Their mission is to quell the negative effects of media on children. This site has many different areas that visitors can explore. There is good section on media violence and children that attempts to help parents understand how media affect their kids. The site has a great deal of information on this topic and would be very useful to any journalist especially if he or she wanted to include what was being done to stop media violence in his or her article.


CYFERnet. (2008). Children, youth and families education and research network. Retrieved June 10, 2008, from http://www.cyfernet.org/

This non-profit association is dedicated to using research from universities to provide information to families. It has much information regarding media violence and its effect on children. There are several good links one can find;however, the website is not set up as efficiently as it could be. While there is a lot of information about media violence and its influence, it is a little difficult to find. The information that can be found there, however, is great information on media, and it offers numerous different fact sheets and studies regarding the topic. Information from universities provides credible and relevant information for any journalist looking to write a story about this topic.