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Bottom Feeders Like American Apparel Need Whacked in the Assets

February 2, 2010 by Amy Jussel 29 Comments

Feb. 9, 2010 Update: Almost 1000 signatures already & expanding global on ipetitions now! Join in! Orig article 2-2-10: "Confident about the junk in your trunk? Show us your assets! Post a photo of your booty's best side for judgment,” invites American Apparel in their latest sexist slop. Yep, they've launched their new ad campaign to “search for the best bottom in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A&F, About-Face, Actionists, activists, adolescents, advocacy, American Apparel, Amy-Jussel, anti-porn, APA, APA task force sexualization girls, appearance cues, body-positive, boy toys, boycott, branding-youth, cause marketing, Childhood Matters, cultures of dignity, Dads, Daughters, demeaning, Dora, empowerment, Etsy, exploitation, females, feminist, girl revolution, girlcott, Girlcotts, girlpower, growing girls with purpose, harassment, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, HGHW, iPetitions, Live Nation, lyn mikel, mom bloggers, New-Moon-Girl-Media, one angry girl, Packaging-Girlhood, petition, PigTail Pals, porn influence on kids, preteen-health, REVERB, SAHM, self-objectify, sexist slop, sexploitation, sexting, sexting prosecution, sexuality, Sexualization, stay at home dads, t-shirts, Targeting Kids, Tee shirts, teens, tees, thongs, toxic ads, toxic waste, undermining parents, underwear, violence, women

Starbucks Filters In Feedback For Healthier Choices

July 2, 2009 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

July 2, 2009 Back to part three in our series on healthGAMERS in a jiff…but first, a quick coffee break, with some health news you can use. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, Starbucks' ubiquitous media and marketing presence has had a grande (venti?) impact on kids. From status symbols of socioeconomics in school, to age compression where caffeine-culture equates with being a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 10 worst foods, 4th meal, All natural, barista, better for you foods, branding overhauls, caffeine, chain restaurants, childhood obesity, coffee wars, corporate responsibility, CSPI, CSR, dieticians, energy-drinks, fair trade coffee, fast food, Food Politics, food porn, frappuccino, green initiatives, greenwashing, healthGAMERS, healthier fare, healthier fast food, Healthy-Kids, HFCS, IdeaList, junk-food, Kids influencers, lighter food, multinationals, My Starbucks Idea, nutrition, real food, reinvention, smoothies, Starbucks, Starbucks healthier foods, Starbucks Shared Planet, turning the tides, V2V, Vivanno, whole foods, Xtreme Eating Awards

Obamicons, Inaugural Media, Gizmos and Facebook Feeds

January 19, 2009 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Jan. 19-20, 2009: Gotta hand it to the new media tech whizzes to leverage Shepard Fairey’s now famous poster art into a DIY freebie keepsake that’s a heckuvalotta fun. When I first spied the Obamicon look-alike on Joe Jaffe’s blog loooong ago, I shrugged it off, “meh, just digerati doin’ their thing with far more graphic firepower and skill sets than I have…” Then they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: digerati, DIY, graphic icons, inauguration, Joe Jaffe, Kids, Next-great-thing, Obama, Obama inaugural, Obama poster, Obamicon, Obamicon Me, Paste Magazine, personalized art, Shepard Fairey, teens, tweens, UGC, user generated content

Agents of Influence Spy Game Educates Middle Schoolers About Misinformation

September 20, 2021 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Sept. 20, 2021 Launching on 9/21/21, autumn solstice, Agents of Influence kicks off new beginnings in edu gaming to combat misinformation. For over a year their team has stealthily brainstormed solutions, built momentum and tested efficacy among media literacy pros and educational communities to reveal an immersive, character driven spy game that uncovers the deeper inquiry and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Literacy, Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: #Tech4good, Agents of Influence, Alterea, Anahita Dalmia, edtech, Educational games, edugames, Games for Change, gaming for good, I Spy an Edu Game, informal-learning, Interactive Games, Jasper McEvoy, media-literacy, middle school edu games, Middle school misinformation modules, misinformation, Misinformation Games, storytelling through gaming, Teaching with gaming

Headstream: Accelerating Youth Mental Health Innovation

December 22, 2019 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Dec. 22, 2019 With the world in need of joy juice to focus on visionary solutions over dire planetary predictions, youth particularly are impacted knowing they’ll be around the longest and are feeling the most helpless, so it’s important to “Look for the Helpers” as Mr. Rogers famously said, and give a salute to “positive picks” that are making waves and pushing toward a ‘sea … [Read more...]