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Dot Complicated: Holiday Media Management

November 19, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Nov. 19, 2013 Ditch the tantalizing Instagram food shots and showy status updates. Halt turkey tweeting. Spare the live streaming of the family fest. MAYbe use the Pinterest prep cheat sheets if you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM Tagged With: children’s media use, Common Sense Media, DOT, Dot Complicated, Facebook, get outside, impact of excessive screen time, kids media influence, kids-media, Media management, media mindfulness, media monitoring, mobile media kids zero to eight, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, nature-kids, No tweeting while you’re eating, over-sharing, play outdoors, Randi Zuckerberg, Richard-Louv, screenstaver, social media vs face time, Stop Sharing on Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving stereotypes, totally wired, wired lives, zero to eight

Depravity Gone Viral: A Thin Line For Humanity on Facebook

September 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel 18 Comments

Sept 17, 2010 Deep breath. In. Out. Hold. Center. Ommmm… I’m trying REALLY hard to abstain from a kneejerk reaction to the ‘dare to share’ assault and twice-raped (by media) teen in Canada who had … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A Thin Line, Andy Church, anti-bullying, bullying, Bystanders, Canada, Canadian teen, child rape, Connect Safely, Cruel's Not Cool, date rape drugs, digital abuse, drugged dating violence, Easy A, Facebook, Gang rape victim, Get in the Game, healing, hookups, horrific Facebook ordeal, internet-safety, Jezebel, Jing online sharing tool, law enforcement, Mark Zuckerberg, media-literacy, Men Can Stop Rape, MTV VMA, open disdain of privacy, Over the Line, parenting, parents, Pitt Meadows, Pixel Project, Pop-Culture, porn charges, privacy settings, PTSD, Purple Ribbon, rape, rape photos, Rosalind Wiseman, sexting, sexual assault, skype safety, spiked drinks, Tapestries-of-Hope, teen drinking, teens, Upstanders, Upstanding, violence against women, Viral Rape Photos, Virginity Hit

Spring Break Sanctuary: Away From Digital Dramas, Peer Reality Shows

April 13, 2010 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Mar. 25, 2016 Just back from a 'spring break' social media hiatus reprising our unplugged trip to Catalina Island, albeit only day tripping vs a leisurely week away, as we tried to 'recreate' and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Always-on, Anne Collier, Catalina, cellphone, digital citizenship, digital dramas, Facebook, free range kids, Generation-Digital, Get 'Em Outside, Get out of your own life, internet-safety, KGOY, Kids, kids want to be kids, life balance, Media, Media management, Media Unplugged, media-literacy, military brats, mobile, My Vetwork, nature deficit, Nature Rocks, NetFamily-News, Outdoor Education, peer influence, reality shows, reconnecting, social networking, social norms, social-media, spring break, teen drama, tethered, texting, The Young and the Digital, totally wired, trauma, Unplug Your Kids, unplugged, vacation, worlds collide, youth

Deconstructing Gaga: Through the Lens of 100 Youth

March 29, 2010 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Mar. 29, 2010 Whether you’re Gaga for Gaga or your emotions run toward dropping the last letter (ahem, cough) there’s no doubt her one billion online video views ascending her from bland to brand have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: beyonce, coarse, Digital-ethnography, disability, Facebook, Fame Monster, Fan culture, fans, feminism, Feministing, Gaga, girlfighting, hollywood gossip, indie, influence, Kids, Lady Gaga, lady gaga parody, Lady Gaga's 24th birthday, LadyGaGa, LGG, Mashable, Music, one billion online video views, Pop-Culture, Product Placement, Rachel Ha, rachel simmons blog, raunch, role model, self-worth, sexuality, Sexualization, sexualized, sociological images, Students, Tarantino, Telephone, violence, youth

CyberBullying Tragedies and Internet Safety: eModeration Part3

December 3, 2009 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Dec. 3, 2009 Just visited the excellent Connect Safely forum to pose the industry question, is there ANYthing that digital moderators or online advocates could’ve done in the child safety realm to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Adinas-Deck, age violations, Anne Collier, banning, blocking, bullying, CEOP, Common Sense Media, Connect Safely, Crisp, Crisp Thinking, CSM, Cyber Tipline, Cyberbullying, digital media, digital multiculturalism, e-learning, eModeration, ethics, Exploited children, Facebook, Focus Dialogues, global digital citizens, Global Kids, Good-Play-Project, grooming, Hailey Hacks, Harvard, Hope Witsell, How to Bullyproof Yourself, Howard Rheingold, imposter profiles, internet filters, internet safety guide, IWF, Izzy-Neis, MacArthur-Foundation, media-literacy, Meeting of the Minds, MMORPGs, moderation, monitoring, netfamilynews, NetModerator, online behavior, online risks, peer tech support, predator panic, RezEd.org, safe chat, Safe Kids.com, self-esteem, sexploitation, sexting, smart socializing, social networking, Tamara Littleton, teen suicide, texting, ThinkUKnow, tracking, Virtual-Worlds, Wired Safety

Internet Safety: Media Literacy Tips From Industry Insiders Pt 1

November 24, 2009 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

Nov. 24, 2009 As fall weather kicks in and families hunker indoors to ‘more screen time’ than summer time norms, I hear tales of media management missteps that would spin heads faster than a Linda … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: angst, Anne Collier, Balancing safety and fun, Beatbullying, CEOP, Channel Signal, chat rooms, children, computer world, Connect Safely, consoles, Crisp Thinking, cyber angels, cyber law, cybermentors, cybersafety, Cybersecurity, datamining, Death by information overload, digital citizens, digital citizenship, digital dinosaurs, Digizens, elearning, eModeration, EU Kidsonline, Facebook, filters, FOSI, gaming, Gazillion, genY, GenZ, Get safe, grooming, Habbo Hotel, Insafe, internet safety forum, internet safety tips, internet-safety, invisible cement, Izzy-Neis, Kids, Kids Online, knee-jerk reactions, Kzero, Larry-Magid, life literacy, media-literacy, Megan Meier, Metaverse ModSquad, MMO, MMORPG, moderated chat, moral-panic, multiplayer chat, NetFamily-News, obsolete tech, Ofcom, online communities, online moderators, online safety, Online safety 3.0, parenting, parents, predator panic, prevention, privacy, profile pages, reputation, Reputation Share, role playing, RPG, safer internet, screen time, SLJ, social-media, Spiral Solutions, Tamara Littleton, teens, ThinkUKnow, tmi, tracking tools, tweens, Twitter, Virtual-Worlds, Webosaurs, youth, youth risk

Teen Webby Winners Talk About Old vs. New Media

May 12, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

May 12, 2009 Hat tip to Ypulse for linking these Webby winning student journalists who reinforce that this blog fits into my own "don't do as I do" persona of 'long form blogging' in a microblog … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Bonnie DeVarco, Boston, digital web, Doug Engelbart, eHow, Facebook, FriendFeed, journalism, Kill your blog, Media X, Microblogging, NCEN, new media, newspaper industry, newspapers, NextNow Collaboratory, old media, On Living By Learning, online student journalists, over-sharing, Paul Boutin, Sandra-Foyt, Science related wikipedian activity map, Stanford, teens, The Girl Revolution, Twitter, webby winners, Wired, youth

Doug Engelbart Supports Shaping Youth By Offering Digital History

March 12, 2009 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

Jan. 30, 2014 Thinking pensively about the late, great Doug Engelbart on this birthday today, as he would've been 89. Let's celebrate his spirit by raising the collective knowledge for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: brainpower, cause classifieds, Celebrities for a Cause, collective knolwedge, computer history, Counter-marketing, Dave Davison, Digital, digital history, digital media, Dora the Explorer, Doug Engelbart, Douglas C. Engelbart, evolutionary, Facebook, Facebook Marketplace, future, geek chic, girls in tech, heroes, intelligence, inventor, IQ, media-literacy, MIT, mother of all demos, mouse, NextNow Collaboratory, Oodle, Program for the Future, sell for a cause, SRI, Steve Wosniak, tech, teens, thought leaders, tweens, virtual garage sale, Visual Insight

Sell Oodles For Shaping Youth Via Facebook Marketplace

March 3, 2009 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Mar. 3, 2009 Want to help Shaping Youth make a difference in the world without opening your wallet? Now you can ‘regift’ those holiday oopsies, gadget castoffs, kids’ outgrown toys and gear all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, castoffs, cause marketing, Celebrities for a Cause, Classifieds, CNET, Craig Donato, donate without spending, Facebook, Facebook Marketplace, Kids, network for good, online classifieds, Oodle, outgrowns, philanthropy, powered by Oodle, recycle, repurpose, San Mateo, sell for a cause, sell your brain, sell your media project, Techcrunch, teens, tweens, virtual garage sale, youth

Celebrate My Birthday By Helping Beth Kanter Celebrate Hers!

January 4, 2009 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Visual Insight guru Eileen Clegg sent me this lovely card (at left) along with a sweet sentiment about “trips around the sun” prompting a recall of a kindergarten tradition I want to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Age-of-Conversation, Amy-Jussel, AOC, Beth-Kanter, big planet, birthday cause app, Birthday celebrations, Cambodia, Caring Bridge, cause marketing, causes, changing the present, Collaboratory, Crowcrastination, donations, Drew McClellan, Eileen Clegg, Facebook, Facebook applications, FB apps, fundraising, Gavin Heaton, giving, global peace, GWLN, Kids, kindergarten, NextNow, nonprofit entrepreneurs, nonprofits, outreach, Pakistan India conflict, Peets eCups, receiving, secret worldwide birthday, Sharing Foundation, Simi Raheal, small world, Smart Mobs, social-media, suicide prevention, teens, traditions, Trips Around the Sun, Visual Insight, widgets, WLW, world peace, youth

One Week Countdown! Vote For Your Favorite Ashoka Youth Venture!

January 2, 2009 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

What better way to kick off the New Year than a quick click to put fresh faces of change to work on the world’s big issues? Ashoka’s Youth Venture, a global network of over 2,000 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: $10, 000, 13-18, @15, @15 Fund, Amy-Jussel, Ashoka, Ashoka Youth Ventures, Ashoka's Changemakers, Best Buy, Best Buy@15 Challenge, Best Buy@15 Challenge with Youth Venture, cause marketing, children, corporate profiteering, corporate social responsibility, corporate sponsorship, crowdsourcing, CSR, Dream it do it, Facebook, feed a need, finalists, funding, GenV, Girls helping girls, halo effect, have fun do good, HopeLab, Ideablob, incentives, Just Means, Kids, make a difference, Media, mentoring, MySpace Impact, Payjr, portal, positive change, Random Kid, Ruckus Nation, RWJF, slideshare, social-media, Street Attack, Teen-Second-Life, teens, UGC, Viral Mesh, Virgin Mobile, Virtual-Worlds, vote, WAP, We Media, youth, Youth homeless awareness, Youth Venture, Zander Turtle Talks

New Media, The “Youth Vote” And Generation “We”

November 5, 2008 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

The "audacity of hope"...It's a powerful potion for all ages, not just Generation "WE." I wrote about "marketing hope" awhile back on this post Inconvenient Truth Meets Digital Earth and am in a bit … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: act of hope, audacity of hope, brand Obama, change, Current TV, donate my status, Facebook, Facebook voter rally, Future Majority, gen-we, Generation We, GovTweets, hack the debate, largest online rally in history, mass media, Me to We, Microblogging, Millennials Changing America, Millennials Rising, Obama, one million supporters, Rock the Vote, Tweet the vote, Twitter, Uncaged, We generation, Yes on Prop 2, YPulse