Jan. 13, 2010 My brother AND my mother sent me this little cartoon jab which left me snickering and simultaneously standing up to stretch. As evidenced in part one of addiction vs. agency in media … [Read more...]
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Media Addiction vs. Agency: The Context of Control Part Two
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 8 ways you might be insane, agency, Alexandra Rampy, Avatar blues, behavior, cellphone contracts, Center for Online Addiction, Common Sense Media, computer addiction, disorders, DML Competition, family media agreements, family time, free agency, healthy media diet, internet addiction, internet addiction quiz, junk science, Kids, labeling, Media management, media-literacy, medical terminology, net addiction, privileges, psychetruth, psychiatrists, psychiatry, psychologist, reimaging learning, risk management, rules, self-analysis, self-help, Sheeple, shrinks, SmartyCard, social stigma, social-media, symptoms of internet addiction, teens
Media Management: Addiction vs. Agency Part One

Jan. 11, 2010 I’m officially back from my one week blog hiatus, victorious in keeping my New Year resolution to ‘unplug’ more, manage my media rather than having it manage me, and slip away sans … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: addiction, agency, Alvin Toffler, Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, disorders, DSM-V, electronic addiction, free agency, games, information overload, internet, internet addiction, Kids, manage media, Media management, media-literacy, MediaScape, mental health, mobile, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, net addiction, pediatrics, Pop-Culture, psychiatric disorder, psychiatry, quiet the mind, shackles, supergirls, teen dating violence, texting, tmi, Twitter, unplug, you don't own me
Virtual Reality Meets Health2.0 For Kids Wellness & Therapy
Oct. 9, 2009 Once upon a time in my former life as a creative director and copywriter, I was asked to create a compelling headline for a learning simulation where young Stanford law students could … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Belinda Lange, children, creative technologies, disorders, education, Exposure therapy, Gaming For Health, healing, health, Health 2.0, intervention, Isis, Kids, learning, mental health, mobile, pain distraction, post traumatic stress, psychoanalysis, psychology, PTSD, rape crisis, recovery, rehabilitation, scent machines, sex ed, SexInfo, SexTech, simulations, STD-prevention, stress, teens, therapeutic benefit, therapy, train the trainer, training sims, trauma, USC, USC Institute for Creative Technologies, video games, violence, Virtual Afghanistan, Virtual Iraq, virtual patients, Virtual Reality, Virtual-Worlds, VRT, war, youth, youth relevant, YPulse
Teen Book Publishers Premiere Louder Than Words TV
August 10, 2009 It doesn’t get more real than this. Louder Than Words teen series developer Deborah Reber hosts a live chat online all this week with the fresh voices and real issues of the teen … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: addiction, age compression, ALA, at risk teens, authenticity, banned book week, books, compulsive behavior, cutting, Debbie Reber, Deborah Reber, depression, digital media, disorders, drama, Everything Sucks, fiction, FML, future of the book, go to the source, HCI Books, impulse control, In Her Shoes, KGOY, kid lit, Kyte, Kyte.tv, library, live TV, Louder Than Words, Marni, nonfiction, online, Pop-Culture, print, publishing, readergirlz, reading, reality, Smart Girls Know, social-media, Steve O'Keefe, teen authors, Teen memoirs, Teen Read Week, teen voices, teen writers, teens, trichotillomania, Truth, TV, uncensored, Video chat, Videocast, West Nile virus, YA lit, YALSA