Marketing, Media and Childhood
Investigations at the intersection of marketing, media and childhood
The Opinioness of the World asks, "... if 20-50% of women are protesting, why aren’t we seeing that reflected in the images shown on the news websites and networks?"People often overlook women in protests or wars, as if they are absent or … [Read more...]
MTV photo via New York TimesI made myself watch Skins on MTV last night. It's the latest offering from MTV causing alarm among parents and media watchers. It’s not the most unwatchable show ever, which surprised me, given the worthless drek that is … [Read more...]
You already know that television is full of inappropriate and unhealthy sexual content for children and teens. If you need any more reasons to turn it off and speak out, take a look at a new report by the Parents Television Council that documents the … [Read more...]
My son, R, was so eager to tell me that his Freshman Advisory teacher was going to do a unit about media literacy, and was using the documentary film “Consuming Kids,” that he couldn’t wait, and sent a text message from school. So we’ll leave the … [Read more...]
Dear Ms. Fey, Do you realize that over the course of more than 30 animated movies that Pixar and Dreamworks have created for children, there are precious few featuring a female protagonist? I found just one. The primary source of heroines in … [Read more...]
The hoopla over the degrading photos of Glee actresses in GQ magazine reminds me of a similar phenomenon in which female athletes pose nude for men's magazines. Elizabeth Daniels, a psychologist at the University of Oregon, has been studying how … [Read more...]
Not sure I would call Glee a wholesome family show. A friend of mine who watches Glee with her 14-year-old son said she was appalled by a scene in the episode with Britney Spears in which a boy was masturbating in an audience. Glee has plenty … [Read more...]
On Friday I was in New York for the SPARK Summit, a gathering of young women activists and their adult supporters. It was a treat to see so many teens speaking out against the barrage of sexualized images of females in tv programs, movies, video … [Read more...]
The Gloucester 18, The Realities of Teen PregnancyMedia Education Foundation has just released on DVD this film examining a spike in pregnancies in 2008 at the Gloucester High School in Massachusetts, and the accompanying media hype. The filmmaker's … [Read more...]
I came across a few good reads this week that I wanted to share: Your Tango: Is TV biased against female sexuality? The message in the ad discussed here is that “women deserve sexual satisfaction.” Now that’s a much different message than the … [Read more...]
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