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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

Grammy Glitz and Gimmicks Galore: Did Kids Watch? Did You?

February 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Feb.1, 2010 Promise I’ll leave the 52nd Annual Grammy music deconstruction to the review pros, but just wanted to comment on the media and gadgetry of 21st century events in new media style. Where else would you see social media integration of Imogen Heap's Twitter Dress composed of photos sent by fans in real-time using the hashtag #twitdress? Purpose? To let fans … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 21st century media, 52nd Annual Grammy, Album of the Year, Andrea Bocelli, beyonce, Black Eyed peas, Bon Jovi poll, branding, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Cain Mosni, celebrities, children, costumes, crowdsourcing, divas, DMB, Don Tapscott, fandom, fashion, feminist, gadgets, GEMSGIRLS, Generation-Digital, gimmicks, Girls are not for sale, Glitter in the Air, glitz, Grammy Awards, Grammys, Grown Up Digital, Haiti benefit, Imogen Heap, iPad, iPad hype, Jam Session 2.0, Kids, ladies night, Lady Gaga, Live Earth, Mary J Blige, Mashable, Media, media-literacy, Meg Fowler, Miley Cyrus, Music, outrageous, participatory culture, PigTail Pals, pink, Playing for Change, preteen-health, Sexualization, Shallow Nation, social media mobilization, Stephen Colbert, t-shirts, Taylor Swift, TechMamas, teens, This is to mother you, Three Billion, TwitDress, Twitter, Very Young Girls, VMA, Web 2.0, youth

CounterMarketing Consumption Cues: Think Geek Gifting Fun

December 15, 2009 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Update: Dec. 21, 2014 Adding a few more fun finds of DIY holiday hack geekery to keep it simple, and am strongly considering ordering my first RaspberryPi credit card sized computer to inspire some collegiate builders...along with MIT's Scratch coding for kids. (my original post on the new launch of ScratchJr.org and uses for making STEM kid-friendly fun is here) Dec. 15, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Berenstain Bears, chemistry, children, colorflame, consumption, Dippin Dots, DIY, drum set, e-learning, eviltron, geek chic, geeky, gift of time, gifts, Gilmour Girls, holidays, how to color fire, Kids, LED, LED light graffiti, less is more, meh, owl pellets, phyto, play, Science, She's geeky, smart, sour candy science, spitballs, Steve Spangler Science, subversive humor, t-shirts, tech, teens in tech, tees, thinkgeek, totally irresponsible science, Toys, wiener whistle, WiFi