mobile-youth-trends

Circle of 6 Campus Safety App: What It is And What it Isn’t

February 27, 2013 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

Update: March 7, 2013 It's official! The President Signed VAWA! Feb. 28, 2013 Finally! The Violence Against Women Act has passed both the House and the Senate and is moving on for final signing by the President. To celebrate, you'll love this pop culture Taylor Swift style video send-up about the 22 who voted against VAWA. It's hilarious. Even though VAWA is no laughing … [Read more...]

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Life 360: Family Locator Apps-Mapping the Shades of Grey (Part 1)

October 15, 2012 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Oct. 15, 2012 Teens call them ‘trackers,’ parents call them ‘tools,’ and the telecom industry refers to GPS and LBS (location based services) as sheer “growth” in a mobile market that’s booming with map-based apps that pinpoint the whereabouts of users. We need to uncork this whopper of a conversation beyond the micro (oooh, handy! or ewww creepy!) and into macro … [Read more...]

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Behind The Wheel Texting: What Works to Drive Behavioral Change?

January 21, 2011 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Feb. 4, 2015 Update Please join our friends at Cyberwise.org for a BlogTalk convo with Lauren Galley of Real Talk, Real Teens, Real Issues on Feb. 5, 2015 as texting and driving survivor Liz Marks shares her harrowing firsthand experience that changed her life forever. Parents, this is a media moment where teens might just LISTEN. Tune in for storytelling that can make a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, AT&T mobile, Auto safety, barking robot, BJ-Fogg, Car and Driver, cellphone-use-teens, child safety, Derek Baird, distracted driving, Distraction.gov, DMV, DMV-CA-Cellphone-youth-laws, DOT, driver safety, driver's ed, driving while texting, DWI, Education World, GPS, Hands-Free-Cellphone-Law, handsfree-mobile, highway safety, intervention, Jane Lynch, Lesson Plans, Mobile Youth, mobile-youth-trends, N2Y4, no phone zone, Oprah pledge, risk prevention, road warriors, Standards-Based Curriculum, T-Mobile DriveSmart, teen auto fatalities, Teens Texting, text ed, texting-while-driving, The Last Text, under the influence, using mobile to mobilize, YPulse

Harvesting Kids’ Eyeballs; Free Mobile For Ad Views: Blyk!

July 18, 2008 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

“What do young people want in mobile? Text. Voice. Alarm clock,” Antti à–hrling, the co-founder of Blyk, mused… What else? Free. And man, do kids want free... Blyk, (pronounced 'blick', YouTube video here) offers 217 texts and 43 minutes free to 16-24 year olds in Europe...The quid pro quo trade-off of minutes for marketing? Try a 29% … [Read more...]

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Media Rules! Shaping Youth Interviews Brian Reich

June 30, 2008 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

We interrupt this series on product placement and new FCC media rules to add a very pertinent voice into the mix, digital dynamo Brian Reich, co-author with Dan Solomon of Media Rules! Brian Reich understands new media’s opportunity to do positive, GOOD things beyond just ‘sell stuff’ so before I dive further into my Part 3 stance on the need for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Age-of-conversation-08, AHA, Amy-Jussel, Beth-Kanter, branding, Brian-Reich, CCFC, Cone, dan-solomon, EchoDitto, emerging-technology, FCC, FCC-Integrated-Marketing-Rules, Generation-Digital, Kids-Advertising, media-literacy, Media-Rules!, mobile-youth-trends, Nicco-Mele, nonprofit-cause-marketing, social-media, YPulse