Dec. 28, 2016 Adding this MediaShift article on using comedy to impart serious science/data/facts as well. With an incoming administration that has no 'use' for reality or facts, it's imperative that media literacy advocates serve strong doses of health, science and eco-literacy into the media stream to combat propaganda and political 'RealityTV' trash, aka "fake news." … [Read more...]
Kids’ Prime Time TV Health Cues Ingested, For Better or for Worse
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: AIDS, Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, APA, digital-ads, eating-disorders, Entertainment Studies, Gossip Girls, Greek, Grey's Anatomy, health content, HIV, Hollywood and Health, Hollywood Health and Society, Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF, Kids, kids media influence, media consumption, media-literacy, Nielsen Ratings, Norman Lear Center, Parents TV council, Peer pressure, portrayal of alcoholism media, pregnancy prevention, preteen alliance, prime time, Sex Etc., sex sells, SexTech, sexuality, sitcoms portrayal of addiction, STD-prevention, teen pregnancy, teen sex, teens oral sex, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, TV, TV as health educator, TV by the numbers, USC Annenberg, youth, youth aids, Youth HIV testing
How Can Such An Avid Blogger Miss Blog Day? Oops!
Aw, crud, it’s ‘Blog Day’ and I might have missed it! Like a Hallmark Holiday that shanghais the buyer into feeling like they’ve missed an occasion of importance, (Heads up! Grandparents’ Day is Sept. 7th this year folks; supposedly always the first Sunday after Labor Day unbeknownst to all but the marketing machine perpetuating it!) I’m … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Age-of-Conversation, Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, Blog Day, Britt-Bravo, Caroline Middlebrook, Change Bloggers, Cheap Thrills, Frog Blog, Grammology, health bloggers, http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2008, Izzy Mom, Joe Hungler, On Living By Learning, Pamela Poole, Pulse and Signal, Robert Scoble, Ryan Barrett, Sandra-Foyt, Zoomie Station