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New Years Media Messages: Packaging Boyhood Meets The Hangover

December 29, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Dec. 29, 2009 Last night I watched ‘The Hangover’ rated R, which I’d heard described by several YOUNG teens (meaning unable to buy a ticket unless sneaking in via diff. multiplex theater) as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: ad regulations, alcohol, alcohol in the media, alcoholic, alcopops, bartender, beer, bender, binge drinking, Binge to Blackout, boys will be boys, Bratz, breaking cycles, buzz, cads, CAMY, cartoons, CCFC, chug it, Common Sense Media, Counter-marketing, Damaging Drek, date rape drugs, designated driver, dope, drinking, drinking and driving, drunk driving, Frank Baker, frat boy, goofy, Greek, hazings, hit me, jello shots, KoolAid, liquor, lyn mikel, MADD, Marin Institute, Mark Tappan, Media Literacy Clearinghouse, Media-Education-Foundation, Media-Influence-Kids, media-literacy, MEF, MLC, MTV reality shows, Naked Brothers Band, NFL, out of control, Packaging-Boyhood, parTAY, partying, players, roofies, rootbeer, saving our sons, Sharon Lamb, sitcoms, slurred speech, sober, spiked drinks, spin the bottle, suite life of Zack and Cody, teachable moments, teaching your teen how to drink, teen brain development, teens, The Hangover, toxic cues, toys encouraging alcohol use, tweenager, tweens, vanessa van petten, VH1

Kids’ Prime Time TV Health Cues Ingested, For Better or for Worse

September 16, 2008 by Amy Jussel 19 Comments

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 … [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

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