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Body Image: Tips for Teens To Survive the Media Morass

January 21, 2010 by Amy Jussel 17 Comments

January 21, 2010 Last night I talked about body image to our local high school PTSO with Susan E. James, an LMFT eating disorders specialist and RD/MPH Cindy Stack-Keer from Kaiser Permanente all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Counter-marketing, 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, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: abs, addictions, Adonis-Complex, AHS, Alison-Field, Amy-Jussel, anorexia, beauty myth, behavioral influence, Bigorexia, bogus claims, buffed boy, children, Cindy Stack Keer, curvy, disease, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, dysmorphia, eating-disorders, emotional health, girls, Golden Globes, grooming, GUTS, hottie, Kids, label lingo, Letters to my body, media-literacy, MEF, mindless eating, National Eating Disorder Awareness, NEDA, NIDA, Nobody is Perfect, obesity, objectification, plastic surgery, Pop-Culture, public health, self-worth, Sexualization & Body Image, Steroids, stress, substance abuse, supplements, Susan James, teens, tweens, women

Swine Flu School Panic? NGC Now Offers Sick Day Media

November 16, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Nov. 16, 2009 Tune into the way back machine to get some pertinent media wisdom for today’s H1N1 pandemic scaring the stuffing out of young kids. See the poster at left? It was produced in 1939 at … [Read more...]

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Media, Misinformation and Unhealthy Spin

August 14, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

August 14, 2009 I'm very thankful that Shaping Youth Nutrition Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield, RD takes the helm today with her piece "The Price of Misinformation in Media," as I’m trying to … [Read more...]

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Blame Drew’s Cancer For My Attitude of Gratitude

August 8, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

August 8, 2009 Who IS this hipster? Meet Drew Olanoff. Media geek. Mobile guru. Inspiration. Yesterday I wrote about kids' propensity to get their yucks at someone else's expense fostering an … [Read more...]

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Therapeutic Impacts of Virtual Worlds: Using New Media Positively

May 5, 2009 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Aug. 8, 2016 Please pitch in to add your data/case studies from VR pain management to VR for psychiatric use and more... ...Currently working on an update about positive media innovation including … [Read more...]

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Blog Action Day: Overcoming Poverty With Global Water

October 15, 2008 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

It’s been a hairy day of stressful mayhem, as I slid in my socks on the linoleum floor of digital deadlines to file my grant app for the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media Learning Competition … [Read more...]

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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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