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“Mouse Inc?” Disney Bullies Small & Mighty CCFC From Home?

March 10, 2010 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

March 10, 2010 I bought and watched Academy Award nominee Food Inc. last night, the riveting documentary on corporate pressures leaning hard on farmers that’s nothing short of mafia-style thuggery … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth Tagged With: AAP, advocacy, Baby Einstein, baby media, baby videos, banished, Brainy Baby, bullying, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, CCFC, children, Children's group loses its lease, commercialization, consumer protection, Consuming kids, consumption, corporate ad creep, corporate raiders, corporate responsibility, democracy, Disney, disney refunds, Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, DVD, emotional health, ethical marketing, Food Inc., free speech, FTC, Harvard, heroes, Hippety Hopper, JBCC, Josh Golin, Judge Baker Center, Kids, litigation, mafia maneuvers, media watchdogs, mental health, mouse house, NYT, profiteering, scrutiny, sheroes, SLJ, small and mighty, strong arming, Susan Linn, Third Sector New England, UCR Study

Counterstrike: MEF Film “The Price of Pleasure” Screens For Free

April 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

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’ … [Read more...]

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

FCC: Kids Programming Is Laden With Product Placement

October 22, 2008 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

That’s my official FCC filing at left, (squeaked in under the deadline today, explained why later) which emphatically states kids should be OFF LIMITS to embedded ads designed to bypass the Tivo … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ad-creep, advergaming, American-Idol, Better For You products, BFY, brandwashing, children, Childrens Television Act, coffee cups, commercialism, common sense, corporate pedophilia, cwickies, DigitalAds.org, discernment, embedded ads, FCC, FCC safeguards, FCC-Integrated-Marketing-Rules, FCC-product-placement, free speech, Girls Intelligence Agency, Happy Feet, Hard sell to kids, industry accountability, JustKid Inc., Kids, McDonalds, Media 3.0, media influencers, media-literacy, name-dropping, news team product placement, peer to peer influence, plotline ad integration, product integration, product shills, psychological tactics, Rounders, social-media, Spongebob, sponsorships, street teams, teens, Theraflu, Tremor, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, vulnerability

The MySpace Mom Skates, While The Teen Hangs? No Justice There!

August 5, 2008 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

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 … [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

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30 Sep

📣@MediaLiteracyEd has just released its updated Core Principles of Media Literacy Education 📣

Read this article by @megfromm to learn more about these essential principles and how they've evolved to meet the demands of our changing media landscape ➡️https://media-and-learning.eu/subject/media-literacy/namle-the-core-principles-of-media-literacy-education/

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30 Sep

It’s a movement.

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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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