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 subject in schools. If you're unfamiliar with Isis-Inc.org (Internet Sexuality Information Services) they're an amazing health advocacy crew that epitomizes the concept of Shaping … [Read more...]
SexEd Abstracts Due For SexTech Summit: Not Your Mother’s Media
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
Text Monster: Teen Tips On Digital Dating Obsessions
April 28, 2009 "Whatcha doin’? Who you with? Text me! Text me back!" When does 'caring' become controlling textual harrassment? What happens when the ‘connectivity’ that takes the form of digital grunts, ‘sup?’ ‘hey,’ ‘lol’ gets annoying even to kids themselves? “That’s not cool” is a fun Ad Council riff using sock puppets, tin can art, comedic fruit and graphic mixed … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: abusive relationships, Ad Council, beyonce, caring, cellphones, Childhood Matters, controlling, Cyberbullying, cyberstalking, digital dating, digital privacy, Do Something, Edward Cullen, emotional health, energy vampires, family time, fruit, funny, influencers, Kids, Media management, media use, obsessed, obsession, online, parenting, photos via cell, preteens, privacy, PSA, sending photos, sexting, sock puppet, teen drama, teen relationships, teen-librarian, teens, text monster, texting, thats not cool, The Girl Effect, trust, Twilight, Webby Awards 2009