The resources contains link to outside sources for information to Latino-related content.
Web Links
This section provides a directory of the major Latino-oriented media in the United States and links to their respective web sites. LAMP provides these links as a service and is not responsible for the content of those web sites.
Organizations
Advocacy
Advocacy Organizations are those for which any Latino-related media issues are part, but not the main goals, of the organization. The organizations listed here usually have broad-based community concerns as their main focus, and media related issues may be included as part of the overall advocacy agendas.
Media Advocacy
Media Advocacy Organizations are those which bring together persons from diverse backgrounds to work together primarily to promote focused or broad-based Latino-related issues in the media. Such issues include concerns pertaining to portrayals (how Latinos are depicted in entertainment, news, and/or advertisements), employment (hiring and promotion of Latinos in entertainment and/or news media), and ownership (opportunities in the business side of the media). While some of these issues are also paid attention to by the professional organizations, the advocacy groups make these issues their prime reason for being.
Professional
Professional Organizations are those based on the members' labor and/or enterprise in the field of communication. Their goals may include the members' status and improvement in their respective professions, as well as advocacy issues pertaining to their fields of endeavor and/or the Latino communities at large. One of the differences with media advocacy organizations is the membership base. Also, professional organizations usually hold annual conventions, and job fairs directed to enhance the media-related job opportunities for their members and affiliates in their respective professions.
Academia
This section is dedicated to Latino and non-Latino professors from around the country who from social science or humanities perspectives teach and/or conduct research on issues related to Latinos and the media.
Their work focuses on a variety of topics such as the history of Latino-oriented media, the stereotypes and other representations of Latinos in film and TV, the uses by and effects of the media on Latinos, news media coverage of Latinos and Latino issues, political communication and Latinos, Latino children and television, Latino advertising and marketing, and Latino and Latin American film, among others.
The information provided in this section of the LAMP web site serves only as a basic guide to these professors and their work. For further information, the reader should contact the professors directly.