April 9, 2009 Even though K-12 youth is Shaping Youth's primary focus, this campus controversy caught my eye for the overlap with our own counter-marketing tactics. In a ‘fight fire with fire’ media literacy move straight out of the Shaping Youth playbook, the Media Education Foundation is responding to this week’s University of Maryland campus uproar of whether or not free … [Read more...]
Counterstrike: MEF Film “The Price of Pleasure” Screens For Free
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: college life, First Amendment, free speech, Media-Education-Foundation, MEF, objectification, on campus, porn influence on kids, Pornification, The Price of Pleasure, University of Maryland porn controversy
The MySpace Mom Skates, While The Teen Hangs? No Justice There!
Not to get all soapbox-ey, but since we’ve been talking about digital ethics and online immersive behavior a lot lately, I’ve gotta toss this one out there… Yesterday’s MediaPost update on the case of the jilted 13-year old MySpace teen (Megan Meier, at left) who hung herself due to a misguided mom masquerading as online beau Josh Evans (who never … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values Tagged With: 1st Amendment, adults behaving badly, Childrens Television Act, Clint Eastwood, criminal, Cyberbullying, cyberlaw, democracy, Digital ethics, digital monopolies, Facebook-Beacon, FCC, First Amendment, free speech, FTC, hate crimes, internet abuse, Internet-Privacy, kids-media, Lori Drew, Megan Meier, MySpace, Nancy Willard, Simple Justice, teen suicide, Unforgiven, VoIP