Mobile Youth – Page 2

Mobile for Good: N2Y4 Top Tier Contenders Announced

April 13, 2009 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

April 13, 2009 Awhile back I wrote about mobilizing youth via mobile, and this past weekend’s Global Engagement Summit seems to have brought out all kinds of positive media uses and leadership teams eager to make a difference on the ol’ blue marble. (Here's a glimpse into the GES world via 10:00 Northwestern Univ. video) Thanks to NetSquared passionista Britt Bravo, I’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, Britt-Bravo, cellphones, cells, change agents, Change Bloggers, Change the Web, Dean Eckles, Deb-Levine, Distributive Networks, Fast Forward Fund, GES, Global engagement, Graham Brown, Horsepower Challenge, Humana Games, IDEA Team, Isis, Josh Dhaliwal, Kevin Bertram, Kids, Mobile Youth, N2Y4, Net2, NetSquared, Nokia, Northwestern University, social good, teens, tweens, Ushahidi, youth culture

Will 2009 Uncover Price Fixing On the Backs of Texting Teens?

December 31, 2008 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

I don’t know about you, but this week's NYTimes article "What Carriers Aren't Eager to Tell You About Texting" written by local SJSU professor Randall Stross has me wanting to text him an emoticon smooch for his ‘lift and reveal’ article peeling back the Wizard of Oz curtain on mobile carrier costs, profit margins and taking advantage of youth habits to … [Read more...]

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Amy Jussel On Kids’ Media Management and Childhood Matters

August 24, 2008 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Why ‘Amy Jussel’ instead of ‘Shaping Youth’ in the headline today? Because this time it’s personal…That’s mama code for ‘don’t do as I do, do as I say’ on the media management front from my own tween experience regarding familial cellphone contracts, texting and mobile media. I was on the radio with talk show host Nurse Rona Renner (podcast to be archived here) who runs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth "On the Air" Tagged With: Brick Lane, C&R Research, Childhood Matters, Common Sense Media, Cost of Texting, Familial Contracts, House Rules, instant-messaging, Interactive Parenting, Kids Cellphones, Media management, Mobile Youth, Morgan Pozgar, National Texting Championships, On-Teens-Today, Parenting Policies, Preteen Texting, Pros cons texting, Rona-Renner, Stop Cyberbullying, Streetside Stories, teens, Text Messaging, texting, Texting While Walking, texting-while-driving, TXT, Vanessa-VanPetten, Wired Safety, YPulse