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An exploration of the standards of beauty imposed on African-American girls today.
I have a love of traveling, which affords me the opportunity to meet new people and explore other cultures. My goal is to develop more projects that will help my community and give a much needed voice to issues that pertain to people of color. I am currently attending Urban Academy, a NYC public high school, and I live with my mother in Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
A new crop of kids: Generation We
By Stefanie Olsen
When Amy Jo Kim’s son Gabriel says he wants to "watch videos," she knows he doesn’t mean DVDs or television. He wants YouTube.
Gabriel, an intensely curious kid who’s about to turn 8, has been fascinated by everything from skateboarding and basketball to statistics about world extremes (like the tallest building in the world). He likes to look up information about the subjects on Wikipedia with his mom and then turn to YouTube for short video clips of kids playing sports. (...)
Association of Television Viewing During Childhood With Poor Educational Achievement
Robert J. Hancox, MD; Barry J. Milne, MSc; Richie Poulton, PhD
Background Excessive television viewing in childhood has been associated with adverse effects on health and behavior. A common concern is that watching too much television may also have a negative impact on education. However, no long-term studies have measured childhood viewing and educational achievement.
Children’s learning from television
Shalom M. Fisch
Many discussions of television.s impact on children focus only on negative effects, such as the influences of
violent television or persuasive
advertising. Such research is certainly important, and has
had a critical impact on policy and
legislation in the United States. However, it is equally important to recognise that not all effects of television
are negative.
Food Marketing and Childhood Obesity - A Matter of Policy
Marion Nestle, Ph.D., M.P.H.
The New England Journal of Medicine
Volume 354:2527-2529
June 15, 2006
Number 24
Everyone knows that American children are becoming fatter, but not everyone agrees on the cause. Many of today’s children routinely consume more calories than they expend in physical activity, but this imbalance results from many recent changes in home, school, and neighborhood environments. Concerned about the health and economic costs of childhood obesity, in 2004 Congress asked the Centers (...)
Home of TV-Turnoff Week
April 23-29, 2007
Our programs are not for everyone...but if you care about your children...you’re going to listen to what we have to say. Empowering people to take control of technology and not letting technology take control of them so they can live healthier lives.
Mediasnackers
MediaSnackers is a site/weblog/project/call to action for anyone interested in young peoples’ consumption and creation of media across the globe.
Re-Mission video game and online community of young people with cancer
Re-Mission is a challenging, 3D "shooter" with 20 levels that takes the player on a journey through the bodies of young patients with different kinds of cancer. Players control a nanobot named Roxxi who destroys cancer cells, battles bacterial infections, and manages realistic, life- threatening side effects associated with the disease.
Teens and Social Media
Pew
The use of social media gains a greater foothold in teen life as they embrace the conversational nature of interactive online media
The Mwelu Foundation
Community Projects in the Mathare Valley Slum of Nairobi
Out primary activities centre around photography and journalism but also include other creative arts such as film production, poetry and music. We carry out community work in the form of environmental clean-ups and visits to other vulnerable community groups.
Toxic Culture. A unified theory of mental pollution.
Micah M. White
How do we fight back against the incessant flow of logos, brands, slogans and jingles that submerge our streets, invade our homes and flicker on our screens? We could wage a counteroffensive at the level of content: attacking individual advertisements when they cross the decency line and become deceptive, violent or overly sexual. But this approach is like using napkins to clean up an oil spill. It fails to confront the true danger of advertising – which is not in its individual messages but in the damage done to our mental ecology by the sheer volume of its flood.
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