Not to sound like a groupie, but this small world, six degrees of separation stuff is beginning to astound me. Swap CCFC’s Dr. Susan Linn for Kevin Bacon, and we’re there. Generation Digital was written by American University scholar and media expert Dr. Kathryn C. Montgomery who also directs the AU project Youth as E-Citizens. I initially heard of Dr. … [Read more...]
Wow. Now even one-panel comics come alive through the digital web and mobile! While snooping around syndication services for Shaping Youth, we stumbled on these short, snappy bursts of content from RingTales who just launched a worldwide premiere of animated cartoons exclusively licensed from the New Yorker. Cartoons and humor are a youth media fave, so we’ve been … [Read more...]
People were atwitter about the ‘addictive’ nature of the new social networking site Twitter when I attended the Community Next event at Stanford Saturday. This is Odeo's global social-media query to the classic teen phone opener, “what are you doing right now?” Sarah’s eating a burrito, Johnny’s picking his hangnails…sheesh, who … [Read more...]
(2007) Advergaming is shifting from online to mobile, so younger kids and parents need a heads-up to spot the spin. Here’s an updated piece with fresh new links from my last article about kids under eight “gobbling up” interactive marketing. This time we're talking more about tweens, but it's amazing to see how early the K-5 set starts toting cell phones: Is your … [Read more...]
Kids are remarkably bold when electronic gizmos veil their verbiage, whether it’s professing teen love on IM or mobile texting a current crush. Toss in new digital offerings like Loopt's buddy-tracking GPS, 3-D virtual avatars sidling up to each other to meet new ‘friends,’ MySpace Mobile and Business Week's latest article on mobile's massive growth, and … [Read more...]
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