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Steamed About Sexualization? Healthy Media for Youth Act Now!

July 14, 2010 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

July 12-16, 2010: Healthy Media for Youth week! Fed up with “boy chasin’ bed swappin’ lip-lickin’ hottie-hoochie booty-bouncin’ appearance-is-everything” cues comin’ at your girls? Yah, so are we. It’s damaging, destructive, and fouling up a healthy sense of sexuality and self-worth as girls are objectified and ‘sold’ a bill of goods about behaviors, bodies, and what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Actionist Network, Actionists, adolescent body image, Adonis-Complex, APA, APA task force sexualization girls, beauty myth, body-positive, buffed boy, CDC, Confidence Community, congressional hearings, Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, depiction of females in media, dieting children, diversity, Dove, Dove Self Esteem Fund, eating-disorders, EDC, education, fashion-beauty-industry-expectations, FCC, female characters, FTC, Geena-Davis, gender equity, Girl Scout Research Institute, girl scouts, girls-self-worth, GSA, H.R. 4925, Healthy Media Youth Act, hot chicks eating burgers, hottie, HR 4925, hyper-sexualizing, Jean Kilbourne, Jessica Lawrence, Killing Us Softly 4, legislation, Male-Body-Image, media influence, Media messages, Media-as-super-peer, Media-Education-Foundation, media-literacy, MEF, Melissa Wardy, obsession with weight, Oct 22, Packaging-Girlhood, preteen-health, Promoting Healthy Media Images, raising healthy kids in a sexualized media world, role models kids, sexuality, Sexualization, sexualization girls, sixpack abs, So Sexy So Soon, SPARK, sparksummit, thinspiration, unhealthy relationships, weight loss, women and girls, women and girls in the media, Youth-advocacy

SexEd Abstracts Due For SexTech Summit: Not Your Mother’s Media

November 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Nov. 8, 2009 One of our SexTech.org ‘top ten’ posts continues to be the Top Ten Teen SexEd videos created by students, for students in an effort to improve the lousy coverage of an inevitably touchy subject in schools. If you're unfamiliar with Isis-Inc.org (Internet Sexuality Information Services) they're an amazing health advocacy crew that epitomizes the concept of Shaping … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2010, abstinence, abstracts, accountability, Advocates-for-youth, boys, by kids for kids, catholic, CDC, Condoms, contraception, dating, DoGooder TV, Early-Sexualization, Feb 26 2010, Focus on Youth, Fresh-Focus, girls, Glee, Grey's Anatomy, health, Health 2.0, HIV, HIV-teen-prevention, hypersexualized, influencers, intervention, Isis-Inc, KFF, Kids, Kinsey Institute, Lgbt, media influence, Media-as-super-peer, mHealth, mobile, MTV 16 and pregnant, nimh, parenting, Pflag, Planned Parenthood, Pope, pregancy, Prevent-STDS, prevention, prime time, prude, PTC, public health, Pulse and Signal, Respect Rx, responsibility, Secret Life of an American Teenager, sex ed, Sex education, SexTech, sexual freedom, sexual health, sexuality, STD, STD-prevention, STDS/HIV-exposure, SxTech, SxTech Conference, teen mamas, Teen talk, teens, text monster, top 10 teen sex ed videos, Twilight Teens, UGC, Youth rights

Josh in a Box: Helpful Advice For Parents of Teens!

October 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 21, 2009 What if I told you a few of my favorite advice slingers and youth analysis pros aren’t even parents at all? There’s Anastasia Goodstein of Ypulse speaking from the GenX pulpit (ok, her days are numbered; she’s about to go on maternity leave) and Courtney Macavinta of RespectRx...Along with wünderkind GenY entrepreneur and media machine Vanessa Van Petten, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: advice, advice slingers, Anastasia-Goodstein, as seen on TV, attention, be yourself, being labeled, branding, bullying, challenging, childhood, choices, cliques, core values, Dear Abby for teens, Digital, empowerment, foster parents, freak, free to be me, Gen X, Gen Y, generation, Global Fund for Women, healthy, Hey Josh for Grownups, Hey Josh!, Hey Josh.com, identity, In Her Shoes, influences, inspiring, Inspiring-Teens, Josh in a box, Josh Shipp, Jump Shipp, Kids, know who you are, labeling, marketing, Media-as-super-peer, Millenials, motivational speakers, MTV, negative labels, Odd Girl Out, outsider, parenting, Peer pressure, Preteen-Identity, pundits, punk, Radical Parenting, reality, relational aggression, relationships, Respect Rx, School Loop, teacup parenting, teens, teens and parents, troubled teens, vanessa van petten, verbal abuse, who am I?, YPulse

Using Mobile to Mobilize: Tapping Into Youth Info Needs

July 11, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Aug. 7 update: New podcasts for ISIS and MobileVoter links at the end. If you still think Cha-cha is a dance step and Isis is a bird, it’s time to mobilize your mindset and get a glimpse of mobile youth trends and teen texting so you're fully abreast of The Next Great Thing. Kids literally have helpful information at their fingertips just a keycode away, whether … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 100-Young-Americans, Advocates-for-youth, American-Teen, Amy-Jussel-Founder-Shaping-Youth, Ben-Rigby, Britt-Bravo, ChaCha, Deb-Levine, Do-GooderTV, DoSomething.org, Fresh-Focus, Google-Earth, HIV-teen-prevention, HPV-vaccine, I-Love-Mountaintops, Isis, Media-as-super-peer, mobile-voter, MobileActive.org, Mobilizing-Generation-2.0, MyBestShot, NetSquared, preteens, Prevent-STDS, ProjectVote, sex-education-teens, Sex-Tech, sex-texting, SexInfoSF, SexTech, sexual-health-teens, SMS-Codes, social-media, STD-prevention, STDS/HIV-exposure, Sweet-Relief.org, teen-suicide-prevention, Teen-texting, Youth-advocacy, youth-voters, YPulse-National-Mashup