beauty industry Archives - Shaping Youth

Lego Friends: Please Build on Possibility, Brain Plasticity

January 1, 2012 by Amy Jussel 37 Comments

April 28, 2016 "37 year old son of Lego billionaire takes the helm as Vice Chairman" Congrats, Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, now that you've inherited the Lego legacy, and named your daughter and five … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 2012 Lego, beauty industry, brick box, Buildables, Case for Make Believe, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Cordelia Fine, corporate blunders, Delusions of gender, Does stripping gender from toys really make sense?, early child development, Empowering girls, gender equity, Gender Portrayal, girls-self-worth, Kids health, LadyFigs, Lego femininity, Lego Friends, Lego masculinity, Lise Eliot, media analysis, media mindfulness, media-literacy, nature vs nurture, neuroscience, neurosexism, New Moon Girls, Peggy Orenstein, pink brain blue brain, Play-Patterns-Kids, Pop-Culture, role play, science behind sex differences, sexism, Sexualization, spark change, SPARK! summit, stealth STEM, STEM for girls, stereotypes-girls, Stuart Brown, Tetris, Think Different, toy choice, toy marketing

The Oprah Factor: Stop the Yo-Yo Dieting Messages

April 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

April 8, 2009 Young women and their moms have been "under the influence" of Oprah longer than you can say “she’s gotta have it.” From cuddly bathrobes to kids' book club picks, when the grand dame of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 5-resolutions, America the Beautiful movie, anorexia, beauty industry, Beauty Mark, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, Cancer, Darryl Roberts, Diane Israel, Diet ads, documentary, eating-disorders, EWG, excessive exercise, fad diets, girls, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, MamaVision, media influence, NEDA, Oprah, preteen-health, Project Green Prom, Race for Perfection, safe cosmetics, Search for a Cause, Teens Turning Green, thinspiration, youth

Counter-Marketing Thinspiration: Killer Media Cues

February 12, 2009 by Amy Jussel 17 Comments

Feb. 12, 2009 Media literacy rule number one: Watch for extreme headlines that command attention. I could've gone with 'Fatal Attraction' or any other number of sensationalist eyecatchers. As you can … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: About-Face, ALA, Amelia Bloomer, anorexia, AnyBody, beauty industry, bulimia, Claire-Mysko, Diet ads, eating-disorders, educational videos, Empowering girls, Feed me, Frank Baker, girls inc., Harriet Brown, Inside Beauty, Jean Kilbourne, Just Think, Justina Chen Headley, Magali-Amadei, Media Literacy Clearinghouse, media-literacy, MEF, muffin tops, NAMLE, NEDA, Photoshop models, Renee Hobbs, Respect Rx, Robyn-Silverman, Sherri Hope Culver, Slim Hopes, starvation, teaching tools, The Girl Revolution, thinspiration, transformation, weight loss, You're Amazing

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