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Healthvana: Peace of Mind In The Dating App Era?

July 19, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Oct. 30, 2014 Update! With 'healthy Halloween' tweets on Twitter, I checked back on my own post here to see why it's getting a spike in 'retweet' circulation, and now see there's been huge press … [Read more...]

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Culture Clash: STD App’s Naming Gaffe Goes Viral

April 3, 2014 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

July 19, 2014 Update: Mahalo and 'Ho'omaika'i 'ana (thank you and congratulations) for the corporate social responsibility exhibited by the Hula app founders and developers who have officially renamed … [Read more...]

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Glee Teen Sex: Facts & Opportunities Using CDC vs. Hollywood TV

November 21, 2011 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Nov. 20, 2011 Truth is, Hollywood is lying about teen sex. Big time. New CDC research points to numbers that might as well frame Hollywood shows as a public health statistical version of ‘The Lying … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: abstinence, Advocates-for-youth, APA sexualization study, birth rates down, CDC October 2011, CDC Teen Sexual Health, compassion boom, comprehensive sex ed, First Times, Glee, Glee on Fox, Glee Season 3, health literacy, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Hollywood Health & Society, hyper-sexualizing, Kids health, Kids Prime Time TV, Kurt and Blaine, LGBTQ, media-literacy, Parents TV council, Peer pressure, Pop-Culture, Rachel and Finn, sex sells, sex-education-teens, sexed, SexTech, Sexual Teens, sexual-health-teens, sexuality, So Sexy So Soon, socio emotional health, STD-prevention, STDs, suspension of disbelief, teen dating violence, teen moms, teen pregnancy, teen sex, teenagers having sex now in minority, The First Time, the talk, Tips for talking about virginity and sex in teen dramas, virginity, youth sexual health

Black Teens, Red Pumps, & SexTech 2011

February 7, 2011 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Feb. 7, 2011 We interrupt this series on the Power of Play to bring you an important public service announcement on behalf of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day today. (Yep, just think of this as … [Read more...]

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SexEd Abstracts Due For SexTech Summit: Not Your Mother’s Media

November 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Nov. 8, 2009 One of our SexTech.org ‘top ten’ posts continues to be the Top Ten Teen SexEd videos created by students, for students in an effort to improve the lousy coverage of an inevitably touchy … [Read more...]

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Virtual Reality Meets Health2.0 For Kids Wellness & Therapy

October 9, 2009 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 9, 2009 Once upon a time in my former life as a creative director and copywriter, I was asked to create a compelling headline for a learning simulation where young Stanford law students could … [Read more...]

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Kids’ Prime Time TV Health Cues Ingested, For Better or for Worse

September 16, 2008 by Amy Jussel 19 Comments

Dec. 28, 2016 Adding this MediaShift article on using comedy to impart serious science/data/facts as well. With an incoming administration that has no 'use' for reality or facts, it's imperative … [Read more...]

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Using Mobile to Mobilize: Tapping Into Youth Info Needs

July 11, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Aug. 7 update: New podcasts for ISIS and MobileVoter links at the end. If you still think Cha-cha is a dance step and Isis is a bird, it’s time to mobilize your mindset and get a glimpse of … [Read more...]

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26 Sep

Started FREE @knightfdn AP course "How to Use ChatGPT & other Generative #AI Tools in Newsrooms" to debrief myself in time for media literacy week on the pros/cons of low/high risk automation practices & protocols #MediaLitWk #medialiteracy #NewsLiteracy

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12 Sep

How Can We Help Students Evaluate Scientific Information? Media Literacy Education! We recently convened #STEM & #MediaLiteracy educators to discuss the skills students need to learn to better evaluate scientific information & resist misinformation. ➡️

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12 Sep

Enjoying @iftf webinar happening now on #AI which is maxed out on attendees/Zoom, but viewable here: Complements the book I just finished, The Coming Wave which I HIGHLY recommend w/a macro lens on societal implications: https://www.the-coming-wave.com/ #IFTF

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6 Sep

"When #car companies aren’t busy sharing or selling your #data, they’re often not protecting it as well as they should. We couldn’t confirm if any of the car brands we researched meet our Minimum #Security Standards. That’s really bad and not normal" #tech

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