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Prom Spending Surges? Media Panics, Hype & Critical Thinking

May 19, 2012 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

May 15, 2015 Update! Great then/now retrospective in the New York Times that spans proms over 60 years, all the way up to current "promposal" shenanigans, spending surges and social media selfies! Enjoy.  May 24, 2012 UPDATE woohoo! Called it! Validation happy dance! Today Show notes HUGE Visa survey inaccuracies in this blurb-> "Prom Spending Myth" but no one is seeing it … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: appearance cues, bodysnarking, Celebrity worship, deconstructing infographics, DoSomething Prom For All, financial education, financial literacy, frugal finds, Gen Y, Gender, gender and media portrayals, generation debt, GfK Roper OmniTel, hottie factor, Junior Prom, keeping up with the joneses, low income spending, lower the income higher the spending, media mindfulness, media-literacy, national average prom spending, oneupsmanship, Parenting-Teens, plastic, Pretty in Pink Prom, princess project, Prom Costs 2012, prom spending surges, Promzilla, Researching-the-researchers, Sexualization, Slash prom costs, tail wagging the dog, teens prom, Visa, Visa survey on prom costs, who wore it best
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