June 4, 2010 How many graduating class invitations do you have piled up from folks you haven’t heard from in an eternity? I’m curious. I’m at three, and trying not to ‘over-think’ the blinding incivility of those with paws out for paltry ‘gimmes,’ preferring to perceive this as simply a well-meaning announcement akin to those holiday cards detailing ‘the kids … [Read more...]
ABCs of Life: What’s Your Gift To Graduating Youth?
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 2010 Graduation rap, 50 Graduation ideas, A-Z life lessons, abcs of life, Academics, accept differences, accomplishments, consumers, Eleanor Roosevelt, gift plaques, Gossip Girls, grad gifts, grads, graduation, graduation gifts, graduation should not be a fundraising event, Great minds, high school seniors, Josh Shipp Graduation Rap, living with intention, meaningful media, Media-Makeovers, milestones, Miss Manners, Oh the Places You'll Go, Parenting-Teens, Please Stop the Rollercoaster, Students, Sue Blaney, taming the gimmes, the gimmes, the giving tree
Kids’ Prime Time TV Health Cues Ingested, For Better or for Worse
Dec. 28, 2016 Adding this MediaShift article on using comedy to impart serious science/data/facts as well. With an incoming administration that has no 'use' for reality or facts, it's imperative that media literacy advocates serve strong doses of health, science and eco-literacy into the media stream to combat propaganda and political 'RealityTV' trash, aka "fake news." … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: AIDS, Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, APA, digital-ads, eating-disorders, Entertainment Studies, Gossip Girls, Greek, Grey's Anatomy, health content, HIV, Hollywood and Health, Hollywood Health and Society, Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF, Kids, kids media influence, media consumption, media-literacy, Nielsen Ratings, Norman Lear Center, Parents TV council, Peer pressure, portrayal of alcoholism media, pregnancy prevention, preteen alliance, prime time, Sex Etc., sex sells, SexTech, sexuality, sitcoms portrayal of addiction, STD-prevention, teen pregnancy, teen sex, teens oral sex, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, TV, TV as health educator, TV by the numbers, USC Annenberg, youth, youth aids, Youth HIV testing