Bryn Kressin Archives - Shaping Youth

USC Media Student Bryn Kressin & Packaging Boyhood Book Winners!

January 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Jan.1, 2010 Happy New Year! This joyous photo of youthful exuberance is Bryn Kressin, at left; one of our Shaping Youth winners of yesterday’s Packaging Boyhood book drawing where we pulled names … [Read more...]

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Halloween Beyond the Cliché: Packaging Boyhood Part Two

October 27, 2009 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Oct. 7, 2014 Update I realize I've been 'deconstructing' Halloween for years with pushback on the societal sexploitation of girls as we fiercely try to "Take Back Halloween" by mythbusting "market … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: aggression, boys, branding, Bryn Kressin, Buffed-Boys, childhood, Comics, communications, Gender, Halloween costumes, Joe Kelly, Kids, Lyn Mikel-Brown, Mark Tappan, media-literacy, packaging, Packaging-Boyhood, Preteen-Boys, Sharon Lamb, slackers, sons, superhero, superheroes, Trick or treat, tweens, USC Annenberg