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Sexualization Summit: Save the Date Oct 22, 2010 NYC

May 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

May 17, 2010 As irony would have it, on Thurs, May 13, in New York City, a small tribe of thought leaders convened on how to best address rampant sexualization of youth in media and marketing. Each … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 10-22-10, 2010, 7 year olds, academic rockstars, adolescence, adults behaving badly, All the Scholar Ladies, APA sexualization study, appearance cues, behavior, beyonce, boy toys, Bratz, children, Consuming kids, corporate pedophilia, Damaging Drek, dancing, dereon divas, desensitized, desire, Dr. Robyn, eating-disorders, emotional health, Empowering girls, harm, HGHW, hostile takeover of childhood, HR4925, Hunter College, hypersexualized, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, kidvid, Killing Us Softly 4, lapdancing, Lyn Mikel-Brown, media influence, mental health, Miley Cyrus, Oct 22, Packaging-Girlhood, PigTail Pals, pole dancing, poptarts, Pornification, preteens, public health policy, Pussycat Dolls, Robyn-Silverman, Sesame Streetwalkers, sexploitation, sexual-health-teens, sexualized childhood, Single Ladies, Susan Linn, Teen Choice Awards, true child, tweens, women's media center, Womens'

Earth Day: 40 Eco Links Worth Recycling to Friends

April 22, 2010 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

April 20, 2020 Update: (How often does that happen 20-2020?) 4-21-2020: Amidst the "Contagion" concerns of COVID-19, take a moment to imagine what POSITIVE CONTAGION taking action on climate … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: #EarthDay2016, altruism, apps, avatar, behavior, blue is the new green, Blue Planet, cause marketing, CauseWorld, change agents, climate change, dirty thirty, Discover the forest, Disneynature, Earth Day, eco, eco heroes, eco labels, eco literacy, eco-friendly, ecology, Energy Star, Envirolution, Environment, Forest Ethics, Fun theory, Get 'Em Outside, green games, Green my Parents, green toys, Green TV, Green-Teens, greenwashing, habitat, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child Healthy World, how to turn people green, influence, Kids, marketing hope, media-literacy, mindfulness, NCLI, Ocean Conservancy, oceanized, Oceans, One world, philanthropy, planet stewards, Plastiki, reach and teach, recycling, safe cosmetics, Save Our Seas, save the planet, Sea Turtles, service learning, social gaming, socially responsible, Sustainability, The Lorax, unplugged, youth

Media Addiction vs. Agency: The Context of Control Part Two

January 13, 2010 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

Jan. 13, 2010 My brother AND my mother sent me this little cartoon jab which left me snickering and simultaneously standing up to stretch. As evidenced in part one of addiction vs. agency in media … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 8 ways you might be insane, agency, Alexandra Rampy, Avatar blues, behavior, cellphone contracts, Center for Online Addiction, Common Sense Media, computer addiction, disorders, DML Competition, family media agreements, family time, free agency, healthy media diet, internet addiction, internet addiction quiz, junk science, Kids, labeling, Media management, media-literacy, medical terminology, net addiction, privileges, psychetruth, psychiatrists, psychiatry, psychologist, reimaging learning, risk management, rules, self-analysis, self-help, Sheeple, shrinks, SmartyCard, social stigma, social-media, symptoms of internet addiction, teens

Turning Boys Into Monsters: Energy Drink Leaves A Foul Taste (Again)

December 8, 2009 by Amy Jussel 26 Comments

Dec. 8, 2009 It’s Tuesday, time for our weekly “Packaging Boyhood” focus, so what better time than the holiday season to sound the 'red' siren on the 'green' brand that tween and teen boys are sucking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: alcohol, alcopops, behavior, BJ-Fogg, boys, Burger King, caffeine, Camel Orbs, cardiac, childrens health, cocktail, energy fiend, energy shots, energy-drinks, jolt and crash, kids nutrition, Lyn Mikel-Brown, macho, manhood, Mark Tappan, market confusion, marketing, masculinity, monster, monster hitman, objectification, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, paid to party, persuasion, pink cigarettes, preteen-health, Red Bull, RockStar, Sharon Lamb, shooters, sodium, squarebutts, sugary sodas, taurine, teens, thinspiration, toxic cues, toxic cues to kids, violence, wellness, Xtreme

CyberSafety Online: Tips From The Inside Out Via eModeration (Part 2)

November 27, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Nov. 26, 2009 Who’s minding the kids online? What’s ‘moderation’ got to do with it? It doesn’t take a retro flashback to know that “Kids say the darndest things,” but who is there to help them … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: ABM, automated behavior management, Beatbullying, behavior, bullying, chat rooms, COPPA, Crisp Thinking, cybermentors, cybersafety, data collection, datamining, digital sandbox, eModeration, ENISA, ethics, gamers, gaming, grooming, how to moderate tweens, internet-safety, intervention, Izzy-Neis, Kids, life skils, lifeguard, media-literacy, moderated chat, moderation, mods, NetModerator, New-Moon-Girl-Media, online safety, online-communities-kids, pbs Fronline series, predators, privacy, safe chat, safer children in a digital world, Save New Moon, social-media, Tamara Littleton, Tanya Byron, teenage brain, teens, trained moderators, UKCCIS, unsupervised, Virtual-Worlds, youth

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