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Shaping Youth Honors Girls Rights Week May 3-7

May 3, 2010 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

May 3, 2010 In honor of Girls Rights Week, advocating for positive change in the world, I’m going to run a week long series of “all things girl” to show how media and marketing can HELP rather than hinder healthy development. What IS Girls Rights Week? Another ‘Hallmark holiday’ you ask? Not by a long shot... As one who changed radio channels four times on the way to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: advocates, Amy-Jussel, APA sexualization study, beauty myth, Chicago Trib, Claire-Mysko, Deborah Reber, Deesha Philyaw, Dove, Empowering girls, exploitation, fem, females, femme, Gender, Girl Child Press, girl revolution, girlpower gone wrong, girls, Girls for a Change, girls inc., girls rights, Girls' Rights Week, Growing Up Girl, HGHW, Jess Weiner, kidlit, Kids, Lyn Mikel-Brown, media-literacy, New-Moon-Girl-Media, Packaging-Girlhood, preteens, Respect Rx, self-esteem, self-worth, Sexualization, Smart Girls Know, Space+Station-Discovery+Shuttle-Two+Female+Commanders+i, STEM, teens, true child, Women2Follow, worldchanging, youth

Commodification of Kids: The Backlash Has Begun

April 16, 2010 by Amy Jussel 17 Comments

April 16, 2010 About a year ago, TruthOut featured a poignant article called "Commodifying Kids, The Forgotten Crisis" by academic Henry A. Giroux, and though I read it with lots of head bobbing agreement on the tipping point of toxicity, I have to strongly DISagree with the "forgotten" notion. This issue is not the LEAST bit forgotten...it's on fire, baby and it's gaining … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Adproofing, America the Beautiful movie, Amy-Jussel, APA, buffed boy, Candies, CCFC, childhood, Childhood Matters, coarseness, commodification, Consuming kids, consumption, corporate accountability, Counter-marketing, crass, CSR, digital-ads, Dr. Robyn, ethics, exploitation, Forgotten crisis, FTC, harm, Healthy media choices, Henry Giroux, HGHW, hottie factor, I'm not a prude but, Jess Weiner, KGOY, meat marketing, Media circus, media influence, media-literacy, Oakland schools, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, padded bikinis, PEM, PigTail Pals, Pop-Culture, Rachel Simmons, Sexualization, So Sexy So Soon, The Consumerist, The Fat Trap, thinspiration, thongs, true child, TruthOut, tweens

Deconstructing Gaga: Through the Lens of 100 Youth

March 29, 2010 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Mar. 29, 2010 Whether you’re Gaga for Gaga or your emotions run toward dropping the last letter (ahem, cough) there’s no doubt her one billion online video views ascending her from bland to brand have given this top selling recording artist much to celebrate beyond LadyGaga's 24th birthday yesterday. Mea culpa on missing the mark for a full-fledged youth roundup of “lil’ … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: beyonce, coarse, Digital-ethnography, disability, Facebook, Fame Monster, Fan culture, fans, feminism, Feministing, Gaga, girlfighting, hollywood gossip, indie, influence, Kids, Lady Gaga, lady gaga parody, Lady Gaga's 24th birthday, LadyGaGa, LGG, Mashable, Music, one billion online video views, Pop-Culture, Product Placement, Rachel Ha, rachel simmons blog, raunch, role model, self-worth, sexuality, Sexualization, sexualized, sociological images, Students, Tarantino, Telephone, violence, youth

Flirt Bots, Sex Bots and Artificial Intelligence: Future Shlock?

February 10, 2010 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Feb. 10, 2010 Anyone remember sweet Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons cartoon? (If you're not having a retro flashback there's a 2012 live-action remake in development so you'll no doubt hear about her soon) Robotic maids and servile techno gizmos and conveniences have come a looooong way since Rosie... Some show humanity ascending with hope and promise, others pose … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2007 cyberlover, Advocates-for-youth, ai, American Apparel, Amplify, Amplify your voice, antivirus, April 10-18 2010, artificial intelligence, avatar, blood is the new black, bot, bots, chat rooms, Dan Jubelirer, data hijacking, data-mining, dating violence, degrading, digital nation, domestic violence, Facebook quizzes, Facebook-Beacon, feminism, Flirt Bots, flirting, Gender, Google Buzz, health, Heineken cyborg, helping heal, identity theft, IM, Isis, Jess Weiner, life size robotic girlfriend, malicious websites, malware, MSN chat, National Robotcis Week, patriarchy, pfishing, phishing, privacy, rape chic, robot, robotics, Roger David, Rosie the Robot, Roxxxy, sex bot, sex ed, Sex-Tech, sexting, sexual assault, sexuality, Sexualization, social sharing, Stephen Colbert, submission, Teen Advocate Dan, teens, The Jetsons, threads, Valentines

Bottom Feeders Like American Apparel Need Whacked in the Assets

February 2, 2010 by Amy Jussel 29 Comments

Feb. 9, 2010 Update: Almost 1000 signatures already & expanding global on ipetitions now! Join in! Orig article 2-2-10: "Confident about the junk in your trunk? Show us your assets! Post a photo of your booty's best side for judgment,” invites American Apparel in their latest sexist slop. Yep, they've launched their new ad campaign to “search for the best bottom in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A&F, About-Face, Actionists, activists, adolescents, advocacy, American Apparel, Amy-Jussel, anti-porn, APA, APA task force sexualization girls, appearance cues, body-positive, boy toys, boycott, branding-youth, cause marketing, Childhood Matters, cultures of dignity, Dads, Daughters, demeaning, Dora, empowerment, Etsy, exploitation, females, feminist, girl revolution, girlcott, Girlcotts, girlpower, growing girls with purpose, harassment, Hardy Girls Healthy Women, HGHW, iPetitions, Live Nation, lyn mikel, mom bloggers, New-Moon-Girl-Media, one angry girl, Packaging-Girlhood, petition, PigTail Pals, porn influence on kids, preteen-health, REVERB, SAHM, self-objectify, sexist slop, sexploitation, sexting, sexting prosecution, sexuality, Sexualization, stay at home dads, t-shirts, Targeting Kids, Tee shirts, teens, tees, thongs, toxic ads, toxic waste, undermining parents, underwear, violence, women