Dec. 31, 2012 Prequel to New Year's Eve... Long gone are the days when I could host a “New Year's at Noon Bubble Wrap Stomp” and watch little kids gleefully squirt silly string at each other in rowdy ‘make as much noise as you can” festivity for a honking good time... Those with older teens like myself are looking for healthier choices for teen New Year plans and maybe … [Read more...]
Media Messages and Binge Drinking Influence On Teens
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Using Media With Mindfulness
Update Jan. 14, 2016 Fame focus...don't bite the hook! Adding this excellent post by Ryan Holiday of the NY Observer calling out the recent Rolling Stone ratings raunch along with a slough of infamous examples of "shamelessness." It has a "spot on" tenor and a downright visceral headline: "This is the Hollowed-Out World That Outrage Culture Has Created" Yes. Yes, it … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Damaging Drek, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: Abercrombie, advocacy, African Americans, alcohol in the media, alcopops, American Apparel, backlash, Baiting Outrage, Blast Colt 45, Brand jamming, childrens health, childrens rights, Clawdeen, commodification, critical thinking, ghetto marketing, guerilla marketing, Hastac, hiphop, Industry Ears, lifestyle cancers, malt liquor, Marin Institute, media incivility, media mindfulness, media vitriol, media-literacy, mindfulness, Monster High Dolls, new media journalism, padded swimsuits seven year olds, payola, preteen-health, push up bras for kids, race baiting, radio DJ samplings, selling out kids, Sexualization, shock schlock, SnoopDog, social justice, substance abuse, teens, there goes the hood, Tuft's study, tweens, underage drinking, undermining parents, whacked in the assets