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Using Media With Mindfulness

April 1, 2011 by Amy Jussel 31 Comments

Update Jan. 14, 2016 Fame focus...don't bite the hook! Adding this excellent post by Ryan Holiday of the NY Observer calling out the recent Rolling Stone ratings raunch along with a slough of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: Abercrombie, advocacy, African Americans, alcohol in the media, alcopops, American Apparel, backlash, Baiting Outrage, Blast Colt 45, Brand jamming, childrens health, childrens rights, Clawdeen, commodification, critical thinking, ghetto marketing, guerilla marketing, Hastac, hiphop, Industry Ears, lifestyle cancers, malt liquor, Marin Institute, media incivility, media mindfulness, media vitriol, media-literacy, mindfulness, Monster High Dolls, new media journalism, padded swimsuits seven year olds, payola, preteen-health, push up bras for kids, race baiting, radio DJ samplings, selling out kids, Sexualization, shock schlock, SnoopDog, social justice, substance abuse, teens, there goes the hood, Tuft's study, tweens, underage drinking, undermining parents, whacked in the assets

Sony May Singe Itself: Slimy Innuendo Ignites Backdraft

September 2, 2010 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

September 2, 2010 Without a doubt, guerrilla marketing campaigns can be effective disruptors as well as clever marketing and teaching tools for advertising AND media literacy. But what happens when … [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: accountability, adolescent angst, Alloy, ambient advertising, behavioral cues, branding, branding-youth, Captive audience, commodification, Consuming kids, corporate social responsibility, digital media, FCC, FTC, goofball guy movies, Gossip Girl, influencers, interactive marketing, Isis, ISIS Advocates for Youth, Kids health, Kmart, mean girls, Media-Influence-Kids, media-literacy, preteens, Pretty Little Liars, product engagement, product integration, Scarleteen, sex sells, sexuality, shock schlock, Sony, Sony fail, teen pregnancy, teens, The Virginity Hit, toxic media, virginity, virgins

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...]

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Avatar Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu ·

26 Nov

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos says his network’s friendly interview with Trump, “put in doubt the independence of our news department.”

"We cannot... offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories."

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Avatar Sam Wineburg @samwineburg ·

16 Nov

Out today! A driver's manual for staying sane on the internet. @holden

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Avatar Amy Jussel @shapingyouth ·

16 Nov

As @jayrosen_nyu so clearly states, it's "not the odds, but the stakes"...Media and #journo can convey context without partisan pandering, clearly citing facts on autocracy objectively...@Sulliview is right, the public deserves to be informed. #NewsLiteracy #democracy

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16 Nov

Dangerous 🆘📢to see this, given they've once AGAIN just enabled their platform to post lies claiming a rigged election when it was not! This is how democracies are overthrown with #misinformation Have media learned nothing? #Journo pay attention! WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-allows-ads-claiming-rigged-2020-election-on-facebook-instagram-309b678d?mod=e2tw

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