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Food Inc. Review: Will Kids Be Hungry For Change?

July 22, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

July 22, 2009 Food, Inc. is making the rounds in art house theaters throughout the nation, and though I have yet to see it (going in Palo Alto soon!) we have Amy Vachon of Equally Shared Parenting (for parents who aspire to share in childraising, breadwinning, housework and time for recreation) with her review from Boston today. My guess is the Vegetarian Kids & Teens … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy Vachon, Amy-Jussel, Appetite for Profit, Backwards Hamburger, big food, childhood obesity, CSPI, eat real, Eric Schlosser, fast food, Fast Food Nation, food additives, food for thought, Food Inc., food industry, food marketing, food marketing to kids, food policy, Food Politics, food supply, gross out game, HFCS, IOM, junk-food, Kids health, Marion Nestle, Media to digest, Media-Influence-Kids, Michael Pollan, Morgan Spurlock, nutrition, organics, positive media influence, sat fat, slow food, Talking to Kids About Junk Food, vegetarian kids, vegetarianism, whole foods

Keeping Kids Safe From Predators (er, Marketers) Part One

July 13, 2009 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

July 13, 2009 Since researcher Sara M. Grimes opened up the conversation on data mining and privacy practices for us, I’d like to keep the focus on this important topic for a sec, because I DO believe we can use media and marketing to impact kids in favorable ways, and have founded our entire organization on that premise to sift out the sludge and elevate the possibility. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Age fakers, age verification, CARU, certification, child advocates, compliance, COPPA, data-mining, Denise Tayloe, digital destiny, Dizzywood, Echometrix, Elf-Island, ESRB, Facebook-Beacon, FCC, FTC, humana, identity verification, internet, interview with Privo, Jeff-Chester, Joi Podgorny, Kids, Kids Online Balancing Safety and Fun unconference, Kids Online Unconference, my data is my data, NAMLE, New-Moon-Girl-Media, Online marketing, online-communities-kids, permissions, privacy legislation, Privacy practices, privacy vaults, Privo, safe harbor, safety, Sara-M.-Grimes, teens, trust, tweens, Under 13, youth, YPulse

Digital Data Mining 101: Echometrix Takes Kids’ Pulse

July 8, 2009 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

July 8, 2009 Still focused on "child predator" panic on the internet? I'd focus more on white collar stalkers like Echometrix, ubiquitous in far greater numbers, if I were you. Imagine digital tracking of every pop culture cue and kids' conversation in "real time" mode, self-described in their Echometrix blog as "opinion mining and sentiment analysis," to tap the "$190 billion … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, analytics, Canada.com, child predator panic, commercialism, COPPA, cyberstalking, data-mining, digital privacy, Echometrix, ethics, Family Safe, FamilySafe, FCC, FTC, Gamine-Expedition, healthGAMERS, marketers dream, marketing predators, opinion mining, privacy fault, Privo, Proudfoot, Pulse, Pulse of teen online habits, real time tools, research, safeguards, Sara-Grimes, search data, sentiment analytics, SmartyCard, technology, teen data, teens, teens nightmare, The Pulse, tweens, UGC, YPulse

healthGAMERS Part Two: Interview With Melanie Lazarus, MPH

June 30, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

June 30, 2009 Today in my Twitter feed (yes, I finally joined, see sidebar badge!) I immediately benefited from the 'following' phenom to shortcut my research time when a new friend/follower in Australia, Tania Andrusiak, pointed to today’s Scientific American story called “Take two video games and call me in the morning” ---('ReTweet' visual at left) Guess it's time for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, Archimage, best practices, brain games, brain plasticity, CDC, exergaming, fitness, food, future, G-Force, game addicition, gamers, games for health, gaming, Gaming4Health, health, Health 2.0, health forums, healthcare, healthGAMERS, healthy media, humana, IFF, innovation, Kids, Melanie Lazarus, mHealth, Monster's Blog, NIH, online community, persuasive games, Playnormous, prescribing games, public health, rehabilitation, RezEd.org, Scientific American, screen time, serious-games, take two video games and call me in the morning, Tania Andrusiak, technology, video games, Virtual-Worlds

Hey Kids: Is There A Market for Healthy Games?

June 28, 2009 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

June 28, 2009 There's no question healthGAMERS are exploring the opportunities of using a "perceived problem as a solution" in the gaming world. Humana is now offering $5000 to create a healthy game concept, RWJF crowdsourced ideas in Teen Second Life with their Dream it. Do it. venture for healthier communities and Elf Island's already seeing therapeutic results in their … [Read more...]