Update: March 7, 2013 It's official! The President Signed VAWA! Feb. 28, 2013 Finally! The Violence Against Women Act has passed both the House and the Senate and is moving on for final signing by the President. To celebrate, you'll love this pop culture Taylor Swift style video send-up about the 22 who voted against VAWA. It's hilarious. Even though VAWA is no laughing … [Read more...]
Circle of 6 Campus Safety App: What It is And What it Isn’t
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: A Thin Line, abusive relationships, Apps Against Abuse Challenge, break the cycle, Bsafe, campus safety apps, Campus Sentinel, CDC Violence Prevention, Chris Brown Grammys, Circle of 6, circle of 6 app, culture of care, cyberstalking, dating violence, Deb-Levine, digital abuse, domestic violence, Elin Waldal, emotional abuse, Fight Back, Gender, gender violence, gender-based violence, Guardly, healthy masulinity, HHS, how do you measure prevention, intimate partner violence, Isis, IVP, kidvid, Life 360, Love is not abuse, Love is respect, mobile-youth-trends, Nancy Schwartzman, NCADV, On Watch, One Love Foundation, OnWatch, public health, rape, rape culture, Rihanna, school climate, TDVAM, teen dating violence, Teen Dating Violence Awareness month, textual harassment, thats not cool, The Line Campaign, Tornado Warning, VAWA, verbal abuse, Verizon DVP Summit, violence against women, Where is your line, youth tech health, YthLive
Public Health: DV Grammys, Too Short Of A Memory, Sexualization
Update Feb. 12, 2016 With the 2016 Grammys coming up this weekend, I wanted to add two posts by the author of The Achilles Effect and Boys, Sex & Media as a ponderable question about what we're choosing to honor and award with media messaging and masculinity. Without vilifying an entire genre, specific artist, or lyrics lens (not interested in uncorking a censorship convo; … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, People Shaping Youth, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: abusive relationships, Am I Ugly videos, ambient advertising, APA Task force, Chris Brown Grammys, depravity, Disposable conscience of consumer society, domestic violence, Drake, DV, Elin Waldal, Grammys, grammys 2016, Hip-Hop, How short is our memory, kids at risk, Love is not abuse, Love is respect, media influence, media-literacy, misogyny, Monster High sexualization, music industry influence on kids, payola, Pop culture impact on kids, rape culture, Rihanna and Chris Brown remix, second hand smoke, sexual assault, sexual-health-teens, Sexualization, social change, TDV, teen dating violence, Tornado Warning, Tumblr policy change, violence prevention, XXL Too Short