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Media Hypefest: Is Prom the New Wedding? A Teen’s Perspective

May 7, 2010 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

May 7, 2010 As the last vestiges of prom wind down along with Girls Rights Week, I wanted to land one last post in the queue exploring media and marketing’s impact on kids' expectations, reality show … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: adolescence, Alice in Wonderland, asked to prom, commercialism, consumption, couples, dateless, devalue girls, Facebook prom groups, formals, girlpower, Girls Bill of Rights, girls inc., girls self esteem, Girls' Rights Week, gowns, graduation parties, high school rituals, keeping up with the jones', Kelsie Morales, kid culture, Lilly, limos, matchmaking, mean girls, milestones, Noah's ark, peer influence, pink is the new black, platonic dates, Pop-Culture, princess project, Project Green Prom, prom, prom date, Prom drama, prom themes 2010, Proma, reality shows, Respect Rx, self rescuing princess, self-esteem, self-worth, social norming, teens, the dame domain, Twilight, Unwritten, women's leadership

Oscars, Obama, Twitter Glam & Jonas Brothers? New Media Moments

February 24, 2009 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Feb. 24, 2009 I’ve been asking tweens/teens whether they watched the Oscars on Sunday to get a feel for the youth zeitgeist when it comes to the Academy Awards show as an entertainment draw in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 81st Annual Academy Awards, Academy Awards, Anne Hathaway, CNN Facebook Obama, Glam.com, GlamTV widget, gowns, gWire, Health Ledger, Jonas Brothers, Kids, Live streaming, Miley Cyrus, MTV, Natalie Portman, Nielsen Ratings, Obama, On the red carpet, Oscars, Oscars 2009, Robert Pattinson, Slumdog Millionaire, State of the Union, teens Oscars, Twilight, Twitter, Twitter revenue stream, VentureBeat, WALL-E, Youth-Media

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