Feb. 7, 2011 We interrupt this series on the Power of Play to bring you an important public service announcement on behalf of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day today. (Yep, just think of this as Superbowl Ads for nonprofits) “Black teens (ages 13–19) represent only 15% of all teenagers in the U.S. but are 68% of new AIDS cases among teens,” reports The Red Pump Project … [Read more...]
Black Teens, Red Pumps, & SexTech 2011
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, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: African Americans, AIDS, Betty Makoni, Black Aids Day, Black teens, CDC, Deb-Levine, Girl Child, Health 2.0, HIV, HIV/AIDS Awareness, ISIS Advocates for Youth, Men Can Stop Rape, mobile health, Online-Teens, prevention, public health, Sex education, SexTech, SexTech Conference, sexual health, sexual literacy, So Sexy So Soon, STD-prevention, Tapestries-of-Hope, The Red Pump Project
New Moon’s Rising For Girls Media: Orb28 For Teens 13-15+ (Part 1)
Orb28 Let's see: Orb: "A sphere of influence, a collective body"...28: numeral referring to the moon's cycle...New Moon: lunar phase when the moon orbits between the Earth and the Sun; Moon: a symbol of womanhood... Okay, I'm beginning to get it now...As a name generation gal, I tend to dissect etymology for sport, but I admittedly glossed over New Moon Girl Media as simply … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: adolescence, Barbie, Bratz, eating-disorders, feminism, feminist, girl-created, girl-empowerment, girls-confidence, girls-dreams, Lacey-Louwagie, Media-Kids, Nancy-Gruver, New-Moon-Girl-Media, Online-Teens, Orb28, preteens, puberty, self-esteem, self-worth, social-media, stereotypes-girls, teens, UGC, YPulse-National-Mashup