hiphop Archives - Shaping Youth

Using Media With Mindfulness

April 1, 2011 by Amy Jussel 31 Comments

Update Jan. 14, 2016 Fame focus...don't bite the hook! Adding this excellent post by Ryan Holiday of the NY Observer calling out the recent Rolling Stone ratings raunch along with a slough of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: Abercrombie, advocacy, African Americans, alcohol in the media, alcopops, American Apparel, backlash, Baiting Outrage, Blast Colt 45, Brand jamming, childrens health, childrens rights, Clawdeen, commodification, critical thinking, ghetto marketing, guerilla marketing, Hastac, hiphop, Industry Ears, lifestyle cancers, malt liquor, Marin Institute, media incivility, media mindfulness, media vitriol, media-literacy, mindfulness, Monster High Dolls, new media journalism, padded swimsuits seven year olds, payola, preteen-health, push up bras for kids, race baiting, radio DJ samplings, selling out kids, Sexualization, shock schlock, SnoopDog, social justice, substance abuse, teens, there goes the hood, Tuft's study, tweens, underage drinking, undermining parents, whacked in the assets

Youth Ask Award Shows: Who’s Calling The Shots?

February 26, 2011 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Feb. 26, 2011 Last Sunday in the New York Times, a full page paid “open letter” from 20-year music industry veteran Steve Stoute lambasted the gaming of the Grammys with full tilt incredulity for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 53rd Grammy Awards, Academy Awards 2011, backstage pass, Banksys, Common, Esperanza Spaulding, For your consideration, genY, Grammy Awards, Hip-Hop, hiphop, How Academy Awards work, how do they pick winners, How Grammy Awards Work, How the Oscars work, How-Stuff-Works, Margaret Lucas, Media Awareness Network, media-literacy, millennials, MTV awards show honors digital culture, NARAS, O Music Awards, OMAs, Passing torch to young, red carpet, Steve Stoute, youth

Flash Animation & Viral KidVid? Give Pause

November 3, 2009 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

Nov. 3, 2009 Here's a marketing campaign kids LOVE (me too!) No secret I’m a huge Fido fan…Flash animation? Not so much. It often freezes my Firefox and fouls up the works more often than not on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: ACE, Acespace.org, activism, Alliance for Climate Education, Alliance for Climate Protection, climate change, customizable, declare your independence, Digital, Digizens, Dog Tricks, dogs, eco, Energy, Environment, Flash activism, flash animation, Forward to a friend, fossil fuels, Free Range Studios, Global Warming, go green, green, Green-Teens, Heartgard, Hip-Hop, hiphop, insert name, Jib Jab, JibJab, Kids, Meatrix, Mouth Revolution, NetGen, personalized videos, sendables, Store Wars, Students, Sustainability, teens, UGC, Videolicious, Viral Videos, youth

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