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Shaping Youth Recommends: Adina’s Deck

Shaping Youth will be screening the original Adina's Deck film as part of our film fest integrating youth and parent education! Watch our 'Upcoming Screenings' page to see where and when we'll be hosting shows. This important film deals with a common media management conundrum youth are dealing with daily...cyberbullying. As you can see by the Shaping Youth post … [Read more...]

Adina’s Deck Gives Kids A Clue on Solving Cyberbullying Mysteries

May 16, 2008 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

In the wake of yesterday’s federal grand jury cyberbullying indictment of a twisted MySpace hoax which resulted in a teen’s suicide, it seems a good time to revisit the cruelty of the schoolyard. Except for one small thing…It didn’t happen in the schoolyard... The perp was a MOM. (CBS video, and Larry Magid's analysis/podcast here) Maybe if the … [Read more...]

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Reach and Teach Fall 2012: Screening of Consuming Kids

Free and Fun! RSVP when date posts on EventBrite! Join us to expand the conversation about consumerism, consumption, commercialism and more as Shaping Youth relaunches our parent education FREE FILM series partnering with Reach and Teach.com in their inviting new local hub in San Mateo. (ALWAYS available online) 6:30pm reception with snacks followed by 7:00pm showing of … [Read more...]

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

Using Kid Lit To Read The Right Message About Bullying

April 18, 2010 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

April 18, 2010 Many of you know I clench when I hear the word ‘reporter’ (even though I’m one and the same, it’s different when you’re behind the keyboard) because media has powerful potential to ignite infernos and give too much heat to ill-placed words, creating drama instead of preventing same....So imagine my exhale when today’s edition of the Chicago Tribune rightfully … [Read more...]