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A Mighty Girl: Healthier Media Messaging, One Click Convenience

December 10, 2012 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

April 11, 2013 Update: Check out A Mighty Girl pics for Environmental Books and movies for green kidlit and Earth Day 2013! Dec. 10, 2012 What to my wondering eyes should appear, but a miniature … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: A Mighty Girl, Amy-Jussel, antidote to sexualization, Brave, Carolyn Danckaert, Early-Sexualization, encouraging STEM, Geena Davis Institute, Gender, gender and media portrayals, gender literacy, girl-empowerment, girlpower, girls leadership, girls-self-worth, graphic novels, healthy choices, healthy girls toys, healthy media, media-literacy, Monster High, multicultural kids books, Packaging-Girlhood, Peggy Orenstein, pink and blue, positive messages about girls, positive role models for girls, Shero, sheroes, STEM for girls, strong female characters, SuperGirl, supershero, top books on bullying prevention for girls, Ultimate guide to the independent princess, winx, women and girls lead

Shaping Youth Is Backing The Illusionists Film About Media’s Body Blitz

July 19, 2011 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Update Nov. 2, 2014 Talk about a greenlight! Excited to attend Elena's "PopUp Party" today screening her important 2015 documentary film (preview here). She'll be speaking at the 3PercentConference in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 12 billboards, Adonis-Complex, Amy-Jussel, beauty myth, Beauty Redefined, Body Blitz, body dissatisfaction, Body-Dysmorphia, Body-Fixation, CCFC, commodification, Dove Evolution, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, Early-Sexualization, Elena Rossini, Fat Hatred in Preschoolers, Fat talking tots, girls-self-worth, Good Girls Don't Get Fat, healthy media, indie films, IndieGoGo, IndieWire, influence of media, Jean Kilbourne, Kickstarter, Killing Us Softly, Lexie and Lindsay, massive media mindshift, Media Education, Media-Influence-Kids, media-literacy, objectification, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, poor body image, Positive Body Image, Project Raceway, Promoting Healthy Media Images, promoting positive body image, redefining beauty, rejecting media beauty ideals, self-funding, So Sexy So Soon, socioemotional health, Take Back Beauty, The Illusionists, The Illusionists Documentary, the perfect body, unattainable ideal, young filmmakers

healthGAMERS Part Two: Interview With Melanie Lazarus, MPH

June 30, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

June 30, 2009 Today in my Twitter feed (yes, I finally joined, see sidebar badge!) I immediately benefited from the 'following' phenom to shortcut my research time when a new friend/follower in … [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, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, Archimage, best practices, brain games, brain plasticity, CDC, exergaming, fitness, food, future, G-Force, game addicition, gamers, games for health, gaming, Gaming4Health, health, Health 2.0, health forums, healthcare, healthGAMERS, healthy media, humana, IFF, innovation, Kids, Melanie Lazarus, mHealth, Monster's Blog, NIH, online community, persuasive games, Playnormous, prescribing games, public health, rehabilitation, RezEd.org, Scientific American, screen time, serious-games, take two video games and call me in the morning, Tania Andrusiak, technology, video games, Virtual-Worlds

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