Media messages

Media Literacy Week: Wait, That Actress is HOW Old?

October 27, 2016 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Oct. 27, 2016 On the cusp of Media Literacy Week, Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2016 I'm turning over the mic (er, keyboard) to MediaGirls as part of our Media Literacy Week series on creating critical thinkers in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sexualization & Body Image Tagged With: ABC Family hit shows, adolescent body image, body ideals, critical thinking, Freeform teen shows, Gilmore Girls, girlpower, Glee, media literacy week, Media messages, media-literacy, MediaGirls, Michelle Cove, NAMLE, PhotoShop, Pretty Little Liars, Proud to Be Me, Sexualization & Body Image, teen actresses, teen tv, teen-angst, The Illusionists, tweens and body image, twentysomething teens

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 … [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

We Want You! Custom Viral for Youth Pranksters & Politicos

August 26, 2008 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Youth will no doubt give this one a nudge up the internet viral video charts, right up there with the ol’ Elf Yourself campaign we wrote about last season. Witty, seamless, and oh-so-relevant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2008 elections, Amy-Jussel, Andrea Stein, Capitol Steps, Connected.net, custom virals, e-mail virals, Eco-Childs-Play, Elf Yourself, Fun political spoofs, Girl Mogul, internet people, Internet Presidential viral, Leader of the Free World, Media messages, OpSys, Pal Talk chat rooms, PalTalk, Personalized Presidential prank, Southern Tool, Techcrunch, Viral Videos, Write-in candidates, Yes we can, Your name here, Youth politics

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Not to mention...kids are watching. Youth everywhere continue to see justice unequally applied, a cynical public le… https://t.co/BI6zTV3EsU
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💯 Agree. But just like taxes brought down Capone, if it takes campaign financing of a porn star to indictment this… https://t.co/v55Ag4xrVA
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Students? I've sent these to ADULTS in my sphere as a helpful nudge toward #medialiteracy as short, curated informa… https://t.co/wtjRq37FAU
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