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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

Blog Action Day: “What’s In It For Me?” Charity Water Meets AOC3

October 15, 2010 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

October 15, 2010 Last year on Blog Action Day more than 13,000 bloggers participated from 152 countries to shine the spotlight on climate change. Shaping Youth's post was all about inspiring kids as stewards of the planet with Cool the Earth and Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots school programs. This year, the topic is WATER, so I figured, ‘what a cinch, I can write about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: #BAD10, 171 authors, Age-of-Conversation, ageofconversation.com, Amy-Jussel, AOC Authors, AOC2, AOC3, Blog action day, Blog Action Day 2010, Bum's Rush, charity, Charity Water, charity:water, Do Something, doing good, Dream Village, Drew McClellan, Feb 26 2010, Gavin Heaton, Global Leaders for Justice, Global Water, inspiring kids, Kids, Masai, MDGs, mentoring, October 15, Play Pumps International, probono, public health, Saved by the Well, Shaping Youth through social good, social-media, Suneet Bhatt, The Age of Conversation, Uwe Hook, water, Women Leaders for the world, World Water Day

10-10-10 & 350! What Does It All Mean?

October 10, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Oct 10, 2010 As mathletes and scientists find multiple meanings of coolness for 10-10-10 ranging from binary code to number 10 representing perfection or completion via the "I Ching," an ancient Chinese text (more at LiveScience) there's one organization that has my full attention and heart and hopes high...350.org! Already 7,347 global work day parties in over 188 countries … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 10-10-10, 350.org, Actionists, activism, Bill McKibbon, climate change, Climate Change Chocolate, coen brothers clean coal air freshener, Cool the earth, Digital Earth, Dr. Tim Foresman, Eco Edu Activism, eco education, eco-kids, Environment, global challenge, Global Work Party, green teen, I Ching number 10, inspiring kids, International Day of Climate Change, Jane Goodall, Kids, Last Little Polar Bear, LiveScience, marketing hope, Nature Rocks, reach and teach, Roots and Shoots, stewards of the planet, TerraPass, What is 350?, What kind of world do you want?, when art meets earth, 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...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A Thin Line, Andy Church, anti-bullying, bullying, Bystanders, Canada, Canadian teen, child rape, Connect Safely, Cruel's Not Cool, date rape drugs, digital abuse, drugged dating violence, Easy A, Facebook, Gang rape victim, Get in the Game, healing, hookups, horrific Facebook ordeal, internet-safety, Jezebel, Jing online sharing tool, law enforcement, Mark Zuckerberg, media-literacy, Men Can Stop Rape, MTV VMA, open disdain of privacy, Over the Line, parenting, parents, Pitt Meadows, Pixel Project, Pop-Culture, porn charges, privacy settings, PTSD, Purple Ribbon, rape, rape photos, Rosalind Wiseman, sexting, sexual assault, skype safety, spiked drinks, Tapestries-of-Hope, teen drinking, teens, Upstanders, Upstanding, violence against women, Viral Rape Photos, Virginity Hit

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...]