Consumerism – Page 19

Who’s Your Fave Fictional Male Rodel Model & Why?

November 17, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Update June 14, 2014 With Father's Day approaching I thought I'd add Common Sense Media's "Favorite Film Fathers" just for fun...and reprise my post about "Media's Portrayal of Father Figures On TV" ......But truth be told, I'm most excited that HUGE gains are coming with excellent books and films uncorking important conversations about healthy masculinity, including The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Atticus Finch, Bill Cosby, boyhood, boyhood studies, boys, boys to men, celebrity, Colby College, fame, fictional role models, Harvard Press, heroes, how marketing affects boys, Jonas Brothers, leadership, Lyn Mikel-Brown, MacGuyver, male, manhood, Mark Tappan, masculinity, media analysis, media-literacy, men, Mr. Darcy, Packaging-Boyhood, Pop-Culture, popularity, role models, sports figures, Team Edward, Team Jacob, teenagers, The new heroes and role models, Top 100 Fictional Male Role models, Tyler Cowan, WeDay, YPulse

Gossip Girl November Sweeps Schtick Predictably Trashy

November 10, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Nov. 10, 2009 No, I didn’t watch the heavily promoted Gossip Girl ‘threesome’ shock schlock last night that sent the Parents Television Council rightfully into a tizzy, but frankly I didn’t need to, as the whole ‘provocative’ ploy is summed in two words, “sweeps week.” The vapid values trotted out in the ‘skankwear’ with stilettos crowd is pretty par for the course on the … [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: 15 Things to Do before graduating, admonish, affluenza, APA, ban, boy toys, Bucket List, bullying, catty, censorship, cliques, CW, Cyberbullying, Dare the Movie, flame baiting, girl archetypes, girls, gossip, Gossip Girl, Hilary Duff, Hillary Duff, hypersexualized, impressionable, Lizzie McGuire, Mama bear, mean girls, menage a trois, network, Parents TV council, Poptimal, populars, PTC, ratings, rich girls, sexuality, Sexualization, shock, shock schlock, sweeps week, teens, Three-way, Threesome, titillation, toxic cues, TV, tweens

“Bring Your Baby to Life With Your Wii Remote?”

November 2, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Nov. 2, 2009 Not sure which part of this creeps me out more, the fact that 21st century baby dolls have a Wiimote crammed up the wazoo to ‘bring the baby to life’ as a Wii system accessory, the passive pink gender cues for girls and total absence of boys as video parenting poppas, or the product picture being a dead-ringer look alike of my own offspring at that age. Ewww all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 21st century, Australia, Baby and Me, baby glutton, babydolls, balance board, Bebe Gloton, behavioral cues, boys, Case for Make Believe, CES, Consumer Electronics Show 2009, consumption, digital play, dolls, exergames, gaming, Gender, girls, health games, mommy bloggers, National Institute of Play, NextNow Collaboratory, Nintendo, Packaging-Girlhood, parenting, Pink Think, play, realism, simulations, Stuart Brown, Tech toys, totally wired, Toys, video games, Wii, Wii remote, wiimote, Wired

Halloween Beyond the Cliché: Packaging Boyhood Part Two

October 27, 2009 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Oct. 7, 2014 Update I realize I've been 'deconstructing' Halloween for years with pushback on the societal sexploitation of girls as we fiercely try to "Take Back Halloween" by mythbusting "market demand"...But the little boys' lens of how some of the girls costumes land on them is one to watch too, instilling critical thinking early on...in this case, two posts by SheKnows.com … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: aggression, boys, branding, Bryn Kressin, Buffed-Boys, childhood, Comics, communications, Gender, Halloween costumes, Joe Kelly, Kids, Lyn Mikel-Brown, Mark Tappan, media-literacy, packaging, Packaging-Boyhood, Preteen-Boys, Sharon Lamb, slackers, sons, superhero, superheroes, Trick or treat, tweens, USC Annenberg

“I’m Not A Prude, But…”

October 23, 2009 by Amy Jussel 26 Comments

Oct. 23, 2009 How many times have you heard that preface to a conversation about pop culture lately? Tweens? Teens? Okay, I promised NOT to do a Halloween Horrors bit on girls' costumes and tramp vamp cues (been there, done that) BUT the irony in the timing of this post from Australia titled, "Musical Tarts are Infecting Our Children" that referenced us here at Shaping … [Read more...]