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Gen Y Book Launch: Coming of Age in a Crap Economy

July 12, 2011 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

July 12, 2011 Lately my generational layers have been interwoven like an Etsy blankie... Between my sandwich generation eldercare/teen scene and my Gen X and Gen Y nephews making the best of jobs and notching off bucket list "to-dos" sans responsibility and kids, it seems timely to expand my K-12 topics to cover the launch of Coming of Age in a Crap Economy by Liz Funk, who … [Read more...]

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Behind The Wheel Texting: What Works to Drive Behavioral Change?

January 21, 2011 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

Feb. 4, 2015 Update Please join our friends at Cyberwise.org for a BlogTalk convo with Lauren Galley of Real Talk, Real Teens, Real Issues on Feb. 5, 2015 as texting and driving survivor Liz Marks shares her harrowing firsthand experience that changed her life forever. Parents, this is a media moment where teens might just LISTEN. Tune in for storytelling that can make a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, AT&T mobile, Auto safety, barking robot, BJ-Fogg, Car and Driver, cellphone-use-teens, child safety, Derek Baird, distracted driving, Distraction.gov, DMV, DMV-CA-Cellphone-youth-laws, DOT, driver safety, driver's ed, driving while texting, DWI, Education World, GPS, Hands-Free-Cellphone-Law, handsfree-mobile, highway safety, intervention, Jane Lynch, Lesson Plans, Mobile Youth, mobile-youth-trends, N2Y4, no phone zone, Oprah pledge, risk prevention, road warriors, Standards-Based Curriculum, T-Mobile DriveSmart, teen auto fatalities, Teens Texting, text ed, texting-while-driving, The Last Text, under the influence, using mobile to mobilize, YPulse

Sexy Broccoli, Saucy 6 Year Olds & Why SexEd is a Must: SexTech Pt.3

February 21, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Feb 21, 2010 Last night I snapped this lousy iPhone shot from Draeger’s deli as I scanned the takeout selections to treat myself to a quiet Sat. night feast. I did a double-take when I saw “sexy broccoli” thinking some wry night shift worker with a droll sense of humor was slipping in a “sex sells” snippet on the ol’ Bush broccoli-hating spree of yesteryear. Alas, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Advocates-for-youth, AIDS, Amplify, Anatasia Goodstein, Birds and bees, Bom411, Boss of Me, broccoli, dating abuse, Deb-Levine, Diane Levin, domestic violence, Gender, HIV, Isis, Jean Kilbourne, Kids, Kids health, kids-fitness, Margaret Lucas, Media, Media Project, media-literacy, National teen dating abuse, objectification, prevention, Safe World for Women, Scarleteen, sexed, sexperts, sexploitation, SexTech, sexual health, sexuality, Sexy, So Sexy So Soon, STDs, teen moms, Teen talk, teen voices, The National Campaign, totally wired, Twitter, Women2Follow, YPulse

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 confusion. I’ve been sending people over to the Ypulse interview with Margaret Lucas from ISIS-Inc. (Internet Sexuality Information Services, the host org) for an FAQ primer…because it's … [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

Who’s Your Fave Fictional Male Rodel Model & Why?

November 17, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Update June 14, 2014 With Father's Day approaching I thought I'd add Common Sense Media's "Favorite Film Fathers" just for fun...and reprise my post about "Media's Portrayal of Father Figures On TV" ......But truth be told, I'm most excited that HUGE gains are coming with excellent books and films uncorking important conversations about healthy masculinity, including The … [Read more...]

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