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The Onion
The Onion: America’s Finest News Source is a fake news journal aimed at satirizing news media and entertainment.
Journal of Popular Culture
http://www.journalofpopularculture.com/
This is an academic, peer-reviewed journal that publishes works on popular cultural media content such as films and television.
Social Media as Surveillance: Rethinking Visibility in a Converging World
This book by Canadian sociologist Daniel Trottier draws on ethnographic data collected from a variety of media users. The book explores the relationship between surveillance and social media use.
What makes something go viral?
https://www.ted.com/talks/dao_nguyen_what_makes_something_go_viral/up-next
In this Tedtalk, Buzzfeed publisher Dao Nguyen describes why some content goes viral, and how people use media content to create community and culture.
Project Censored The Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News
http://www.projectcensoredthemovie.com
This documentary evaluates some of the problems with news media. It features interviews with media critics and media scholars such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Dan Rather.
Center for Media Literacy
This website provides information about media literacy, including publications, resources, and events.
The trauma floor: The secrect lives of Facebook moderators in America
This reportage discusses the difficult experiences of social media moderators, who evaluate online content for harmful content.
Pop Culture Detective
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHiwtz2tCEfS17N9A-WoSSw
Jonathan McIntosh's YouTube channel evaluates popular culture through a sociological lens.
The Internet apologizes…
Influential individuals in the tech world discuss the harms and negative consequences built into the structure of the internet.
The Internet warriors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JyTW4Rg2tE
This Guardian documentary speaks with internet 'trolls' and visits them in their everyday lives.