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New Spark Summit Social Media Widget! Share It!

October 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2010, CUNY, Geena Davis Institute, Geena-Davis, HGHW, Hunter College, lyn mikel, October 22, Packaging-Girlhood, Sexualization, SPARK, Spark widget, SPARK! summit

SPARK Ignites A Firestorm of Powerhouses: Geena Davis, & More

October 16, 2010 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

October 16, 2010 The countdown to the SPARK Summit (Sexualization Protest: Action. Resistance. Knowledge) is in its final week, culminating in the NYC Summit Friday Oct 22, 2010 and the hits just keep on comin,’ as girls’ organizations and teens nationwide continue to register, and big name surprises pop into the media mix as if no one wants left out of the fun. Excitement is … [Read more...]

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KFC’s “Assvertising”–A Double Down of Unhealthy Cues

September 22, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

September 22, 2010 Would you like a sideorder of sexualization with that heart attack? If the excess sodium from KFC’s Double Down innuendo-laden sat fat monstrosity doesn’t raise your risk factor for high blood pressure, ergo cardiovascular disease, heart failure, kidney disease, and stroke, then the college co-eds selling their buns for the bunless will surely jolt and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: AHA, ambient advertising, American Apparel, Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, APA report early sexualization, assvertising, best bottom contest, Body Blitz, bottom feeders, bottoms, boys into monsters, brand-ambassadors, bunless, buns, butts, CCFC, College co-eds, college girls, commodification, CSPI, date rape drugs, Double Down, DoubleDown, DV of sodium, ethics, fast food, frat boys, FTC, girls, girls-self-worth, gluteus ad maximus, heart attacks, Human-billboards, IOM, junk-food, KFC, kidney disease, Kids health, meat marketing, Media-Influence-Kids, mental health, Pornification, public health, rape, rent your backside, Salt assault, salt intake, self-esteem girls, sex sells, sexploitation, Sexualization, Sexualization & Body Image, So Sexy So Soon, socioemotional health, sodium, SPARK! summit, spokesbutts, stroke, teens, youth

Depravity Gone Viral: A Thin Line For Humanity on Facebook

September 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel 18 Comments

Sept 17, 2010 Deep breath. In. Out. Hold. Center. Ommmm… I’m trying REALLY hard to abstain from a kneejerk reaction to the ‘dare to share’ assault and twice-raped (by media) teen in Canada who had photos of her horrific ordeal plastered onto Facebook by morally bankrupt bystanders. You could say it was "Over the Line" as MTV's anti-bullying digital literacy youth site "A … [Read more...]

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FTC Food Marketing to Kids Update: Are Watchdogs All Bark No Bite?

September 9, 2010 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Sept. 9, 2010 Where are we now with the whole junk food marketing to kids/obesity prevention discussion? Feels like we’ve been TALKING about "candy bars for breakfast" and citing Pink Princess Fairytale Flakes with ads for sugary slop on TV out the wazoo, along with advergaming (embedded digital trolling, seeding unhealthy junk food) and yet “the more things change, the more … [Read more...]