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Rudolph: A Parable On Bullying, Peer Pressure & Soaring High

December 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Dec. 17, 2010 Media madness has hit some new toxic tipping points lately, from sexualized cues for tweens to slink around like a ho-ho-ho (great awareness-raising via this new PTC study) to teen pot use rising after years of decline, and of course the influence of Miley's latest messes surging sales of ‘salvia’ ... Sooooo today I’m (re)running Lessons From Rudolph about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Annie Fox, anti-bullying, bullying, cerebral palsy, confidence, disabilities, frenemies, Glenda Watson Hyatt, I'll Do It Myself, Kidlutions, kids media influence, Lessons from Rudolph, Middle School Confidential, Miley bong hit, Miley Cyrus, Parents Television Council, Peer pressure, PTC, Race to Nowhere, Red Nosed reindeer, Rudolph, Salvia surge, Teen pot use rising, The Me Movement, Wendy Young

Sexualization Summit: Save the Date Oct 22, 2010 NYC

May 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

May 17, 2010 As irony would have it, on Thurs, May 13, in New York City, a small tribe of thought leaders convened on how to best address rampant sexualization of youth in media and marketing. Each invitee of this diverse group was hand-selected for the purpose of "bringing their entire communities" into the conversation and sharing next steps, best practices, and public … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 10-22-10, 2010, 7 year olds, academic rockstars, adolescence, adults behaving badly, All the Scholar Ladies, APA sexualization study, appearance cues, behavior, beyonce, boy toys, Bratz, children, Consuming kids, corporate pedophilia, Damaging Drek, dancing, dereon divas, desensitized, desire, Dr. Robyn, eating-disorders, emotional health, Empowering girls, harm, HGHW, hostile takeover of childhood, HR4925, Hunter College, hypersexualized, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, kidvid, Killing Us Softly 4, lapdancing, Lyn Mikel-Brown, media influence, mental health, Miley Cyrus, Oct 22, Packaging-Girlhood, PigTail Pals, pole dancing, poptarts, Pornification, preteens, public health policy, Pussycat Dolls, Robyn-Silverman, Sesame Streetwalkers, sexploitation, sexual-health-teens, sexualized childhood, Single Ladies, Susan Linn, Teen Choice Awards, true child, tweens, women's media center, Womens'

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 else would you see social media integration of Imogen Heap's Twitter Dress composed of photos sent by fans in real-time using the hashtag #twitdress? Purpose? To let fans … [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

Shaping Youth is in the Philadelphia Inquirer Today

September 2, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Sept. 2, 2009 For a media shy writer wonk who likes to fly under the radar, you might say I’m a ‘glutton’ for punishment each time I agree to making a comment to the press. The Bebé Glotón toy story originated at Thingamababy about the Spanish breastfeeding doll with slurpy sounds and strap-on-bib; human not included. Since then, it's taken off into controversy land and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: APA study, Bebe Gloton, behavioral influence, Berjuan, breastfeeding, breasts, Case for Make Believe, commercialism, controversy, cultural context, dolls, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, Eco-Childs-Play, feminism, Jezebel, Kids, Kids health, lactation, magnet dolls, make believe, media-literacy, Miley Cyrus, minimama, natural, nipple bib, nursing, Philadelphia Inquirer, pregnancy, pretend play, public health, reputation management, Sexualization, simulations, Spain, Spanish breastfeeding doll, suckling, sucks, Susan Linn, teen, Teen Choice Awards, Thingamababy, Toys, tween

So Sexy So Soon: Shaping Youth Chats With Jean Kilbourne, Ed.D.

August 17, 2009 by Amy Jussel 30 Comments

August 17, 2009 Last month So Sexy So Soon hit the market in paperback, though my hand-signed hardback by academic rockstars Diane Levin, Ph.D. and Jean Kilbourne Ed.D is frayed, highlighted, and worn from full use with youth and parent ed groups ever since its release last year. I broke bread with these two research pioneers at Susan Linn’s house when she hosted all of the … [Read more...]

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