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Joe Kelly on Eating Disorders, Support, Outreach for Men

October 12, 2014 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

Update Apr. 2, 2015 Heads up to DADS and all men with loved ones experiencing an eating disorder: Joe Kelly will be giving his important workshop in Los Altos, CA April 25, 2015. Oct. 12, 2014 Though … [Read more...]

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Glee Teen Sex: Facts & Opportunities Using CDC vs. Hollywood TV

November 21, 2011 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Nov. 20, 2011 Truth is, Hollywood is lying about teen sex. Big time. New CDC research points to numbers that might as well frame Hollywood shows as a public health statistical version of ‘The Lying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: abstinence, Advocates-for-youth, APA sexualization study, birth rates down, CDC October 2011, CDC Teen Sexual Health, compassion boom, comprehensive sex ed, First Times, Glee, Glee on Fox, Glee Season 3, health literacy, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Hollywood Health & Society, hyper-sexualizing, Kids health, Kids Prime Time TV, Kurt and Blaine, LGBTQ, media-literacy, Parents TV council, Peer pressure, Pop-Culture, Rachel and Finn, sex sells, sex-education-teens, sexed, SexTech, Sexual Teens, sexual-health-teens, sexuality, So Sexy So Soon, socio emotional health, STD-prevention, STDs, suspension of disbelief, teen dating violence, teen moms, teen pregnancy, teen sex, teenagers having sex now in minority, The First Time, the talk, Tips for talking about virginity and sex in teen dramas, virginity, youth sexual health

The Bro Code: Media, Masculinity & Misogynistic Misfires

September 29, 2011 by Amy Jussel 19 Comments

Update Sept 3, 2015 From the maker of The Bro Code and Generation M, Thomas Keith announces his newest film trailer via Media Education Foundation titled, "The Empathy Gap: Masculinity and the Courage … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Adonis-Complex, anti-grinding, APA task force sexualization girls, boys, boys to men, buffed boy, do no harm, Gender, gender and media portrayals, gender wars, GirlCaught, girls as boy toys, Humane Education, IHE, Ikea Man World, Jackson Katz, Jenna Marbles, man cave, masculinity, Media-Education-Foundation, media-literacy, MEF, Men Can Stop Rape, Packaging-Boyhood, Parents TV council, Plan-International, Playboy Club Petition, Pop culture impact on kids, Pornification, Predatory practices, Raising Girls Amidst Meat Marketing, rape jokes, Sexualization, SPARK! summit, stop disrespecting women, teen dating violence, The Bro Code, The Good Men Project, Thomas Keith, turning boys into monsters, violence against women, what about the boys, XY Online

Gossip Girl November Sweeps Schtick Predictably Trashy

November 10, 2009 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

Nov. 10, 2009 No, I didn’t watch the heavily promoted Gossip Girl ‘threesome’ shock schlock last night that sent the Parents Television Council rightfully into a tizzy, but frankly I didn’t need to, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 15 Things to Do before graduating, admonish, affluenza, APA, ban, boy toys, Bucket List, bullying, catty, censorship, cliques, CW, Cyberbullying, Dare the Movie, flame baiting, girl archetypes, girls, gossip, Gossip Girl, Hilary Duff, Hillary Duff, hypersexualized, impressionable, Lizzie McGuire, Mama bear, mean girls, menage a trois, network, Parents TV council, Poptimal, populars, PTC, ratings, rich girls, sexuality, Sexualization, shock, shock schlock, sweeps week, teens, Three-way, Threesome, titillation, toxic cues, TV, tweens

Kids’ Prime Time TV Health Cues Ingested, For Better or for Worse

September 16, 2008 by Amy Jussel 19 Comments

Dec. 28, 2016 Adding this MediaShift article on using comedy to impart serious science/data/facts as well. With an incoming administration that has no 'use' for reality or facts, it's imperative … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: AIDS, Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, APA, digital-ads, eating-disorders, Entertainment Studies, Gossip Girls, Greek, Grey's Anatomy, health content, HIV, Hollywood and Health, Hollywood Health and Society, Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF, Kids, kids media influence, media consumption, media-literacy, Nielsen Ratings, Norman Lear Center, Parents TV council, Peer pressure, portrayal of alcoholism media, pregnancy prevention, preteen alliance, prime time, Sex Etc., sex sells, SexTech, sexuality, sitcoms portrayal of addiction, STD-prevention, teen pregnancy, teen sex, teens oral sex, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, TV, TV as health educator, TV by the numbers, USC Annenberg, youth, youth aids, Youth HIV testing

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12 Sep

How Can We Help Students Evaluate Scientific Information? Media Literacy Education! We recently convened #STEM & #MediaLiteracy educators to discuss the skills students need to learn to better evaluate scientific information & resist misinformation. ➡️

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12 Sep

Enjoying @iftf webinar happening now on #AI which is maxed out on attendees/Zoom, but viewable here: Complements the book I just finished, The Coming Wave which I HIGHLY recommend w/a macro lens on societal implications: https://www.the-coming-wave.com/ #IFTF

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6 Sep

"When #car companies aren’t busy sharing or selling your #data, they’re often not protecting it as well as they should. We couldn’t confirm if any of the car brands we researched meet our Minimum #Security Standards. That’s really bad and not normal" #tech

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7 Sep

Happening NOW...Great experts adding their perspectives via @FOSI on Zoom webinar right now: #tech4good #edu #storytelling #parenting

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