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 10, 2013 “I’m a virgin! I’m not gay. I don’t use drugs! I’ve never had sex, none of this applies to me.” These are the kinds of responses and misinformation both teens and their … [Read more...]
Youth Aids Day: First Gen Who’ve Never Known a World Without HIV
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
Kids’ Prime Time TV Health Cues Ingested, For Better or for Worse
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 that media literacy advocates serve strong doses of health, science and eco-literacy into the media stream to combat propaganda and political 'RealityTV' trash, aka "fake news." … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: AIDS, Amy-Jussel, Andre Blackman, APA, digital-ads, eating-disorders, Entertainment Studies, Gossip Girls, Greek, Grey's Anatomy, health content, HIV, Hollywood and Health, Hollywood Health and Society, Kaiser Family Foundation, KFF, Kids, kids media influence, media consumption, media-literacy, Nielsen Ratings, Norman Lear Center, Parents TV council, Peer pressure, portrayal of alcoholism media, pregnancy prevention, preteen alliance, prime time, Sex Etc., sex sells, SexTech, sexuality, sitcoms portrayal of addiction, STD-prevention, teen pregnancy, teen sex, teens oral sex, The Secret Life of the American Teenager, TV, TV as health educator, TV by the numbers, USC Annenberg, youth, youth aids, Youth HIV testing