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Fed Up With Food Marketing to Kids? Nosh On Food MythBusters Film

September 21, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Sept. 21, 2013 Tired of the $2 billion/year endless barrage of hard sell food advertising hawking toxic crud to children to turn them into life long consumers? You’re about to get some ammo in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Nutrition & Wellness Tagged With: #MomsNotLovinIt, Amy-Jussel, Anna Lappe, brand-ambassadors, Burger King, clowning around with kids health, corporate accountability, corporate ethics, Counter-marketing, DigitalAds.org, fast food marketing, Fast Food Nation, Feeding Frenzy, food marketing to kids, Food Mythbusters, Food Myths, food policy, Food Politics, FoodMyths, Healthy-Kids, junk food ads, junk food in schools, junk food marketing, Kids food marketing, Kids health, kids nutrition, Moms Not Lovin It, nag factor, nutrition education, obesity prevention, pester power, preventive health, processed foods, public health, secret documents sugar industry, Stop Corporate Abuse, Talking to Kids About Junk Food

The LAMP Shines Light on Media Literacy: NAMLE Recap

August 5, 2011 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Aug. 5, 2011 In internet time, the couple of weeks that have passed since NAMLE (the Nat'l Assoc of Media Literacy Educators' conference) may SEEM like a virtual eternity or 'old news' as digital … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 140EDU, Ad satire, Amy-Jussel, BlogHer 2011, children media management, Collaboratory, collective intelligence, collective knowledge, critical thinking, Culture jamming, digital media, DigitalAds.org, Douglas Engelbart, Douglas Rushkoff, Emily Long, Erin Reilly, Kelly Mendoza, kids-food-products, kids-media, Lamplatoon, Lampoon, long form blogging, Media Education, media influence, media-literacy, MediaEd Lab, Mohammed Bilal, My Pop Studio, NAMLE, NAMLE 2011, National Assoc of Media Literacy Educators, Renee Hobbs, short attention span world, The LAMP, USC Annenberg, Youth-Media

FCC: Kids Programming Is Laden With Product Placement

October 22, 2008 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

That’s my official FCC filing at left, (squeaked in under the deadline today, explained why later) which emphatically states kids should be OFF LIMITS to embedded ads designed to bypass the Tivo … [Read more...]

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