Industry Ears Archives - Shaping Youth

Man Down? Girl Up, Rihanna. Own Your Influence.

June 6, 2011 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

June 6, 2011 We interrupt our positive picks programming to hand over a pail and a scrub brush so parents can prep for the latest mop up of "young and the RECKLESS"... This week in Rihanna Redux, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, People Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Baiting Outrage, BET, Center for Media and Childrens health, children media violence, dating violence, do no harm, domestic violence, DV, Elin Waldal, Hollywood health, Industry Ears, Kanye Monster, KFF.org, Love is not abuse, Love is respect, Love the way you lie, Man Down, media influencers, MTV Movie Awards, music influencers, National Domestic Violence Hotline, NDVH, Pop-Culture, pop-culture-icons, PTC, rape crisis, Reese Witherspoon, Rihanna, Rihanna Eminem, Safe Youth, sexual assault, TDV, teen dating violence, teens, Tornado Warning, violence

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

“Where My Dogs At:” A Misogynistic Misfire Doing Damage in a Blink

September 1, 2006 by Sky 9 Comments

Mar. 28, 2015 Almost a decade after I wrote this post, the media messages defiling young girls and particularly young black girls under the 'satire' banner continues, despite sheroes and massive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Damaging Drek, Shaping Youth Tagged With: African American stereotypes, cartoons, Industry Ears, misogyny, Pornification, racism, Sexualization, Snoop Dogg, social satire, Where My Dogs At, women of color