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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...]

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Safety Expert Uses Media Literacy to Deconstruct McAfee Study

July 2, 2010 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

July 2, 2010 When I first saw this note in my social media stream it raised my media literacy eyebrows to explore further. It said, “Interesting: McAfee has a very diff take on their own study than does CNET's Larry Magid." First thing that popped into my brain was, “That's NOT surprising, research is only relevant when one can deconstruct the background of who’s doing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Anne Collier, Berkman Law, bullying, CNET Larry Magid, Connect Safely, Critical-thinking-skills, Cyberbullying, danah-boyd, Darrell Huff, digital abuse, Family online safety, FOSI, How to Lie with Statistics, Iger the Ignorant, internet safety queen, Internet-Privacy, internet-safety, Izzy-Neis, Joi Podgorny, kids and privacy, Larry-Magid, McAfee study, media awareness, media-literacy, NAMLE, NCPC, Net Family News, online communities, online safety, parental panic, privacy, privacy-data-youth, research ethics, Researching-the-researchers, safety and technology, Secret Online Lives of Teens, sensationalism, Sourcewatch, teens, Virtual-Worlds, youth

Virtual-to-Real World Play Patterns; Sims Used For Solutions?

July 30, 2008 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Shaping Youth Correspondent Sara Grimes (at left) our hands-on research pro in the gaming arena and a smart as a whip academic to boot, (here's scholarly Sara at ACT Lab) has helped us ALL by distilling the findings from a new study on kids, toys and online play, which she posted on her blog Gamine Expedition. (always on our sidebar if you lose the link!) Here’s the … [Read more...]

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