Media Literacy – Page 69

Glympse: Temporary Geolocation For Free Range Kids?

May 22, 2009 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

May 22, 2009 Aside from another botched spelling test via corporate branding with the clever name in "Pursuit of Happyness" style, I'd like to hear pros and cons from mobile maniacs, please... Mobile Youth.org? Teen tribes? Safety pros? There's a new phone app to share a ‘Glympse’ of your location for a jiff in real time without any ties, tethers and trackability of other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Android phones, Anne Collier, bryan trussell, crowds, free range kids, geekbrief TV, geolocation, Glympse, google latitude, GPS, helicopter parents, iphone, Kids, location finding, loopt, mobile mapping, mobile phones, mobile social safety, netfamilynews, Next-great-thing, phone tethers, privacy invasion, privacy settings, Robert Scoble, scobleizer, social compass, tech gadgets, teens, trends, youth

Will Internet Ads Become The Leaf Blowers Of Digital Media?

May 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

May 21, 2009 Seguing from the clever Google search logos and their homepage fun to this one at left from "Ask"...I must "ask" dear readers...Who would like to join me in a childish, lip-fluttering raspberry on behalf of ad creep and product proliferation? I mean, c'mon, really...selling off your own homepage search screen to blitz tomorrow’s premiere of Night at the Museum … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement Tagged With: ad-creep, ads in public bathrooms, ads on conveyor belts, advertising proliferation, ambient advertising, Battle of the Smithsonian, bin liners, Brian Morrissey, checkpoint ads, internet, leaf blowers, mind pollution, Night at the Museum, noise pollution, screen time, surround sound, Times Square, tray table ads, ubiquitous ads

Doodle 4 Google National Winner: Hope For A New Beginning

May 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

May 21, 2009 Earlier this spring I wrote about the history of the cool and everchanging logos on the Google homepage delighting us all…including my favorite salute to Seuss. Yesterday it was about Ida, the 47 million year old fossilized dinosaur...(though some at LiveScience are saying “Idaknow-about-this" ancestry-missing link bit…) Today it’s about resurgence, renewal and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A New Beginning, Christin Engelberth, Cooper-Hewitt, Doodle 4 Google, Doodle4Google, EARTH, eco, ecology, Environment, Global Warming, Google logos, healthy-planet, homepage logos, Ida Fossil dinosaur, LiveScience, One world, renewal, resurgence, reversing trends, Smithsonian, Turtles

American Idol Upset: Who You Callin’ “Marginalized?”

May 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

May 20, 2009 Tonight was the big hoohah over American Idol’s grand finale controversy, and the New York Times' ArtsBeat section had a play by play ‘real time’ review updating regularly that described this showdown between Kris Allen and Adam Lambert as “the guy next door versus the guyliner.” On the ‘unfair to Adam’ shout out, you can add a posse of young teens who gave me … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Adam Lambert, AI 2009, American Idol Finale, American-Idol, contests, Credit Card Reform, Kris Allen, New York Times ArtsBeat, Pop-Culture, reality shows, Ryan Seacrest, Simon Cowell, singing, Susan Boyle

Women Talk Sports Network: Voices To Be Heard

May 19, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

May 19, 2009 In the “Young Runners” post yesterday I glossed over the new Women Talk Sports network and Shaping Youth Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield’s involvement as one of their cadre of contributing bloggers, because I KNEW this media magic warranted a post and presence all its own. One of our readers yesterday was seeking a hub for encouraging teen girl athletes … [Read more...]