depiction of females in media

Miss Representation Sparks Change As a Film, As a Movement

February 4, 2012 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Ready for Feb 3, 2013? Miss Rep will be at it again. Here is the new list of 2013 Twitter handles for advertisers, just use the #NotBuyingIt hashtag on Twitter to make a social media statement … [Read more...]

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Steamed About Sexualization? Healthy Media for Youth Act Now!

July 14, 2010 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

July 12-16, 2010: Healthy Media for Youth week! Fed up with “boy chasin’ bed swappin’ lip-lickin’ hottie-hoochie booty-bouncin’ appearance-is-everything” cues comin’ at your girls? Yah, so are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Actionist Network, Actionists, adolescent body image, Adonis-Complex, APA, APA task force sexualization girls, beauty myth, body-positive, buffed boy, CDC, Confidence Community, congressional hearings, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, depiction of females in media, dieting children, diversity, Dove, Dove Self Esteem Fund, eating-disorders, EDC, education, fashion-beauty-industry-expectations, FCC, female characters, FTC, Geena-Davis, gender equity, Girl Scout Research Institute, girl scouts, girls-self-worth, GSA, H.R. 4925, Healthy Media Youth Act, hot chicks eating burgers, hottie, HR 4925, hyper-sexualizing, Jean Kilbourne, Jessica Lawrence, Killing Us Softly 4, legislation, Male-Body-Image, media influence, Media messages, Media-as-super-peer, Media-Education-Foundation, media-literacy, MEF, Melissa Wardy, obsession with weight, Oct 22, Packaging-Girlhood, preteen-health, Promoting Healthy Media Images, raising healthy kids in a sexualized media world, role models kids, sexuality, Sexualization, sexualization girls, sixpack abs, So Sexy So Soon, SPARK, sparksummit, thinspiration, unhealthy relationships, weight loss, women and girls, women and girls in the media, Youth-advocacy

Girls as Boy Toys Takes A Toxic Turn: Body Image Shaping Youth

April 11, 2007 by Amy Jussel 27 Comments

Shaping Youth wrote about the provocative viral promo targeting teen gamers to ‘place the tattoo anywhere on the woman's body’...We hit the op-ed pages when a teen radio station turned ‘hot 99.5’ into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values Tagged With: adolescent body image, APA task force sexualization girls, appearance cues, body shame, Body-Dysmorphia, depiction of females in media, eating-disorders, Everyday Sexism, girls as boy toys, girls-self-worth, objectification, preteen body image, toxic cues to kids

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26 Sep

Started FREE @knightfdn AP course "How to Use ChatGPT & other Generative #AI Tools in Newsrooms" to debrief myself in time for media literacy week on the pros/cons of low/high risk automation practices & protocols #MediaLitWk #medialiteracy #NewsLiteracy

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12 Sep

How Can We Help Students Evaluate Scientific Information? Media Literacy Education! We recently convened #STEM & #MediaLiteracy educators to discuss the skills students need to learn to better evaluate scientific information & resist misinformation. ➡️

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12 Sep

Enjoying @iftf webinar happening now on #AI which is maxed out on attendees/Zoom, but viewable here: Complements the book I just finished, The Coming Wave which I HIGHLY recommend w/a macro lens on societal implications: https://www.the-coming-wave.com/ #IFTF

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6 Sep

"When #car companies aren’t busy sharing or selling your #data, they’re often not protecting it as well as they should. We couldn’t confirm if any of the car brands we researched meet our Minimum #Security Standards. That’s really bad and not normal" #tech

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