Live Earth Archives - Shaping Youth

Grammy Glitz and Gimmicks Galore: Did Kids Watch? Did You?

February 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Feb.1, 2010 Promise I’ll leave the 52nd Annual Grammy music deconstruction to the review pros, but just wanted to comment on the media and gadgetry of 21st century events in new media style. Where … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 21st century media, 52nd Annual Grammy, Album of the Year, Andrea Bocelli, beyonce, Black Eyed peas, Bon Jovi poll, branding, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cain Mosni, celebrities, children, costumes, crowdsourcing, divas, DMB, Don Tapscott, fandom, fashion, feminist, gadgets, GEMSGIRLS, Generation-Digital, gimmicks, Girls are not for sale, Glitter in the Air, glitz, Grammy Awards, Grammys, Grown Up Digital, Haiti benefit, Imogen Heap, iPad, iPad hype, Jam Session 2.0, Kids, ladies night, Lady Gaga, Live Earth, Mary J Blige, Mashable, Media, media-literacy, Meg Fowler, Miley Cyrus, Music, outrageous, participatory culture, PigTail Pals, pink, Playing for Change, preteen-health, Sexualization, Shallow Nation, social media mobilization, Stephen Colbert, t-shirts, Taylor Swift, TechMamas, teens, This is to mother you, Three Billion, TwitDress, Twitter, Very Young Girls, VMA, Web 2.0, youth

Do Those ‘Take Action’ Causes and AutoFill Forms Really Work?

August 25, 2009 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

August 25, 2009 Ever wonder if those urgent ‘act now' e-mails from your favorite causes work? Last week I received an NCLI eco-literacy action alert, as Shaping Youth is a member of the consortium … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 350.org, Action, action alerts, advocacy, Age-of-Conversation, Al Gore, Alliance for Climate Protection, Beth-Kanter, Brian-Reich, Capitol Hill, cause marketing, climate change, congress, constituents, Contact your legislator, digital activism, EarthSeeds, eco curriculum, eco literacy, eco-kids, Environment, fundraising, Live Earth, lobbying, Media-Rules!, Mobile activism, mobilization, NCLI, No-Child-Left-Inside, special interests, STEM, teens, youth, youth-voters

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