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 management, I'm not the type to be consumed by disordered terminology, symptoms and panic statistics flinging about... If I were, I might have seen it as a dire familial sign or … [Read more...]
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
Young Innovators: Get Out of the Garage and Into the Marketplace!
Calling all social media wünderkind, changebloggers, and humanitarian twitterati and digerati of the millennial set (yes, this means you, Alex Steed) there’s ‘gold in them thar’ hills!’ (ok, that phrase comes from either a Yosemite Sam cartoon or a cowboy parody, but either way, it shows it’s in my lexicon, revealing I’m WAY too old to … [Read more...]
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