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Therapeutic Impacts of Virtual Worlds: Using New Media Positively

May 5, 2009 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Aug. 8, 2016 Please pitch in to add your data/case studies from VR pain management to VR for psychiatric use and more... ...Currently working on an update about positive media innovation including tips/tactics for the "sandwich generation" of parents providing eldercare and am thrilled to see virtual reality being tested in senior living communities among startups like … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: #digitalhealth, Andre Blackman, AT&T simulator, Cancer, disease, Embodied Labs, G4H, games for health, Gaming For Health, healing, health, Health 2.0, Health Further, healthcare, HopeLab, hospitals, humana, Kids, mental health, Nationwide Children's Hospital, pediatric, physical therapy, Pokemon Go public health, PTSD, ReMission, Rendever Health, schools, serious-games, stroke, technology, teens, therapeutic, Virtual-Worlds, VR eldercare, VR empathy training, VR simulations, youth

Get Out of Your Own Life! Environmental Influence on Kids

March 30, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Mar. 30, 2009 Mea culpa for the unannounced vanishing act, but I’ve been out of town interviewing teens in a different ‘pocket’ of the greater Bay Area, exploring how environmental influences (peers, nature, geography) shift the volume and decibel level of media intake among kids and where we might learn some 'best practices' to leapfrog into a healthier place for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 12 Going on 29, be yourself, beach volleyball, branding, Buckminster Fuller, CDC, consumption, defiance, Dr. Jessica Illuzzi, Dr. Peter Scheidt, Early-Sexualization, Earth Hour, eco, EcoSentience, environmental influence, Green-Teens, health, holistic, Kids, National Children's Study, NCLI, NCS, NextNow Collaboratory, NIH, organic, Peer pressure, Pop-Culture, preteen, Santa Cruz, self-worth, teenagers, well-being, world cafe

Do New Year Resolutions Work? Parents? Kids? Teens?

January 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Dec. 30, 2016 Update Now THAT's what I'm talking about... Teen Vogue has just released their 2017 New Year's resolution playlist, and a historic lens of where the tradition came from, and given that I'm now a subscriber and newfound fan of Teen Vogue's scorching truth-telling journalistic lens, it's heartening to hear younger voices ringing loud and clear instead of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: AAP, breaking cycles, breaking habits, change, diet, goal-setting, habits, health, healthy resolutions for kids, New Year commitments, New Year Resolutions, Parenting-Teens, parents, raising teens, resolution dilution, resolve, Teen New Year's Resolutions, Teen Resolutions, Teen Vogue, teens, turn over a new leaf, youth

Dream It. Do It. Youth Grants For Social Change in Virtual Worlds

October 30, 2008 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

PDiddy-Puff Daddy-Diddy dude step aside, as THIS is the kind of D.I.D.I. initiative that I want to see out there!!! D.I.D.I. stands for Dream It. Do It…An Ashoka Youth Venture effort with Global Kids and funding by RWJF all teaming up to offer seed money to visionary young people anxious to bring positive change to the health of their community! Nothing 'virtual' … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: $1000 youth grants, A childs war, Ashoka, Avatars, Barry-Joseph, crowdsourcing, curriculum, DIDI, DIDI grants, Digital Media Learning Competition, DML, Dream it do it, Global Kids, Hastac, health, Health 2.0, HopeLab, kids collaboration, machinima, millennials, MMORPG, participatory learning, peer-to-peer, positive social change, RezEd.org, Ruckus Nation, RWJF, Scribd, Second-Life, seed funding, SL, Social entrepreneurs, Sustainability, teen health, Teen-Second-Life, teens, TSL, virtual learning, Virtual-Worlds, Wellness 2.0, youth empowerment, youth grants, Youth Ventures

“Check It Out! I Got A Sponsor For My Race!” A Wellness Media Mashup

October 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Belated congratulations to our own Shaping Youth Nutrition MA, RD, and ACSM Certified Health Fitness Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield, (yes, those letters ALL matter, as she’s worked her tail off for ‘em!) for she just ran a very personal, very applaudable self-challenge on behalf of Diabetes Research and Education. She’s inspired so many of us who have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: +3, +3 Network, Americans diabetes, bicycling, causes, charitable giving, children, CSR, cycling, diabetes, Diabetes Action Team, diabetes prevention, Diabetes Research and Education, diabetic connect, dietary intake, dlife.com, fitness, fitness challenge, fundraising, globesity, goals, GPS mobile, health, Health 2.0, I survived Hurricane Hannah, IDEO, iphone apps, Making it count, marathons, Marine Corp Marathon, Me to We, millennials, motivation, nutrition, Plus 3 Network, Plus3 Network, privacy data, race, Rebeca Boyte, Rebecca Scritchfield, rewards, Rick Sutton, runners, running, safe routes to school, social networking, social-media, sponsors, sweat equity into social currency, teens, The Tech, track, Trek, Tudiabetes, wellness, Wellness 2.0