STDS/HIV-exposure

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...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism Tagged With: behavior change, campus safety apps, CDC Teen Sexual Health, Change the name of the STD alert, college STD clinic finder, cultural appropriation, diversity and health, hapa haole, Hawaii, Hawaiian culture, Hawaiian heritage, history of hula, Hula, Hula app, Hula app petition, Hula is sacred, hula stereotypes, kamaaina, Merrie Monarch Hula Festival, mHealth, mobile apps, napalapalaiolaka, Native Hawaiians, Ramin Bastani, sexed, sexual health, STD-prevention, STDs, STDS/HIV-exposure, youth apps, Youth public health, YTH, YthLive

Youth Aids Day: First Gen Who’ve Never Known a World Without HIV

April 10, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Nov. 25, 2015 Update World Aids Day is coming up Dec. 1st, and Durex is promoting the creation of a "condom emoji" to be used via social media to shorthand safety messages for public health. April … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Advocates-for-youth, AIDS, AIDS Awareness, AIDS-free generation, Campaign to End AIDS, comprehensive sex ed, First National Youth HIV AIDS Awareness Day, Get Yourself Tested, GYT, HIV, HIV positive, HIV/AIDS Awareness, Kaiser educational theater, Kaiser Permanente sex ed, LGBTQ, NYHAAD, Red Pump Project, reproductive rights, Secrets, Sex education, sex-education-teens, sexual assault, sexual-health-teens, sexuality, STDs, STDS/HIV-exposure, Victim blaming, youth, Youth Aids Day, Youth HIV testing, Youth public health, YTH.org

Sex::Tech 2010; Teens & Public Health Converge (Pt. 1 of 3)

February 16, 2010 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Feb. 16, 2010 Ten days from now the mother of all sexual health conferences takes place again in San Francisco with the name Sex::Tech itself conjuring controversy, intrigue, and a bit of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: abstinence only, Advocates-for-youth, American Apparel, Amplify, boycott, CDC, Deb-Levine, Family Health, Feb. 26 and Feb 27 2010, girlcott, HIV, inSpot, Internet sexuality information services, Isis, Kinsey Institute, line campaign, Margaret Lucas, media influence, media-literacy, MTV, MTV 16 and pregnant, National Campaign to prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy, nimh, Pew Internet, prevention, public health, Say what?, Scarleteen, Secret Life of the American Teenager, sex ed, Sex education, SexInfo, sexploitation, SexTech, SexTech Conference, sexting, sexual health, sexuality, StayTeen.org, STDS/HIV-exposure, SxTech, technology, Teen Mom, teen pregnancy rise, teens, text ed, The Thin Line, top 10 teen sexed videos, what are you telling our kids?, Where is your line, youth, YouthNoise, YPulse

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...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 2010, abstinence, abstracts, accountability, Advocates-for-youth, boys, by kids for kids, catholic, CDC, Condoms, contraception, dating, DoGooder TV, Early-Sexualization, Feb 26 2010, Focus on Youth, Fresh-Focus, girls, Glee, Grey's Anatomy, health, Health 2.0, HIV, HIV-teen-prevention, hypersexualized, influencers, intervention, Isis-Inc, KFF, Kids, Kinsey Institute, Lgbt, media influence, Media-as-super-peer, mHealth, mobile, MTV 16 and pregnant, nimh, parenting, Pflag, Planned Parenthood, Pope, pregancy, Prevent-STDS, prevention, prime time, prude, PTC, public health, Pulse and Signal, Respect Rx, responsibility, Secret Life of an American Teenager, sex ed, Sex education, SexTech, sexual freedom, sexual health, sexuality, STD, STD-prevention, STDS/HIV-exposure, SxTech, SxTech Conference, teen mamas, Teen talk, teens, text monster, top 10 teen sex ed videos, Twilight Teens, UGC, Youth rights

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...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 100-Young-Americans, Advocates-for-youth, American-Teen, Amy-Jussel-Founder-Shaping-Youth, Ben-Rigby, Britt-Bravo, ChaCha, Deb-Levine, Do-GooderTV, DoSomething.org, Fresh-Focus, Google-Earth, HIV-teen-prevention, HPV-vaccine, I-Love-Mountaintops, Isis, Media-as-super-peer, mobile-voter, MobileActive.org, Mobilizing-Generation-2.0, MyBestShot, NetSquared, preteens, Prevent-STDS, ProjectVote, sex-education-teens, Sex-Tech, sex-texting, SexInfoSF, SexTech, sexual-health-teens, SMS-Codes, social-media, STD-prevention, STDS/HIV-exposure, Sweet-Relief.org, teen-suicide-prevention, Teen-texting, Youth-advocacy, youth-voters, YPulse-National-Mashup