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USC Media Student Bryn Kressin & Packaging Boyhood Book Winners!

January 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Jan.1, 2010 Happy New Year! This joyous photo of youthful exuberance is Bryn Kressin, at left; one of our Shaping Youth winners of yesterday’s Packaging Boyhood book drawing where we pulled names … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 2009 top book picks, AFS, AIFS, API, Aspire Abroad, book, Bryn Kressin, collective knowledge, college, collegiate, contest winners, Curse of the Good Girl, Diane Levin, education, Elizabeth J Meyer, gap year, Gender, Happy New Year, high school abroad, IIE Passport, Jean Kilbourne, language resources, lifelong learning, Liz Funk, Liz J Meyer, Lyn Mikel-Brown, Mamarazzi, Mark Tappan, military brats, My Daddy Taught Me to Surf, New Year Resolutions, NYU, Oh the Places You'll Go, Packaging-Boyhood, passport, Rachel Simmons, Rosalind Wiseman, Semester at Sea, Sharon Lamb, So Sexy So Soon, Students, study abroad, SuperGirl, SuperGirls Speak Out, Surfrider Foundation, Suzette Valle, teens, travel, Travel abroad, walkabout, youth internships

Wii Are Family: A French Look At A Global Gaming Phenom

January 15, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Romantic that I am, I took French in 8th grade yet proceeded to live in locations where Japanese, Chinese or Spanish were the language of choice; yet somehow, French still sticks in my brain. There … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Addicting-Games, children, commercialism, computer games, consumption, digital games, Doug Goldstein, EA Sports Active, Electronic-Arts, exergaming, family fun, family games, fitness, foreign languages, Francophile, French, game platforms, gaming, gaming consoles, Gaming4Health, Health 2.0, HopeLab, Kids health, kids play, language resources, linguistics, Nintendo, outdoors, Pamela Poole, Playnormous, pong, Toys, Ubi, video games, Weary Parent, Wii, Wii Are Family, Wii Fit, Wii Mii, Wii Sport, Wii-habilitation

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