June 22, 2009 Youth culture is highly visual and iconic, no doubt about it. According to Graham Brown's article, Youth in Iran, about 60% of the population in Iran is under 25, so it's no surprise that the death in the streets of 26-year old “Neda” has become iconic very, very fast. As students and global citizens rally using social media mobilization to protest the … [Read more...]
Neda: Iconic, Insta-Media Shifts Us To Visual Story Threads
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Bonnie DeVarco, catalysts, cause marketing, change agents, citizen-journalism, Collaboratory, compatriots, connective intelligence, democratic, digital humanities, Eileen Clegg, global community, green, Green revolution, hearts and minds, Humanists, iconic, interdependence, international, internet, Iran, Iranian protests, Jeff Clark, Kevin Bacon, media icons, mobilization, NEDA, neoformix, NextNow, nonviolence, online, pandemic, peace, Persian translation, PhraseNet visualization, portesters, retweets, revolution, Second-Life, Shop-Green, six degrees.org, social-media, solidarity, Students, TweetGrid, Tweetmaps, Twitter, Visual Insight, Walt Handelsman, word clouds, youth
Going Green With Red, White & Blue Celebrations
Green Mary, who runs ‘zero waste events’ with biodegradable, compostable greenware, should supply our annual island 4th of July gig, because as I set up for the 100+ families to run our kids games again this year, I’m seeing universal discordance. Next year, I plan to lobby our homeowners association to order her potato starch utensils, sugar cane hot cups … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Eco-Childs-Play, Eco-Mom-Alliance, EcoFabulous, Ecopreneurist, EcoSalon, EcoStiletto, Enviromom, Environment-Kids, FlaminFuji, GO-Media-Network, Green-Alternatives, Green-Celebrations, Green-Fireworks, Green-Girls-Guide, Green-Mary, Greenware, Greenzer, Healthbolt, July4th-Green, MC-Millker, Not-Quite-Crunchy-Parent, Patriotic-Parfait, Positive-Futures-Network, Sara-Ost, Shop-Green, Thomas-Friedman, Van-Jones, Vegan-Grilling, Weelicious, Yes-Magazine