Media Mindfulness

For those of you interested in the media impact on kids, you can check out this streaming video talk by Sarah Banet-Weiser, ‘Kids Only: Nickelodeon, Youth & Citizenship.’ You may want to check out her up-coming edited volume, “Cable Visions: Television Beyond Broadcasting” (New York University Press).
UWTV Program: Kids Only: Nickelodeon, Youth and Citizenship:
USC Annenberg [...]

The critique of advertising has been that marketers have no stories to tell, but everything to sell. Clearly the industry sees it differently. And I agree. Even an ad is a story, but usually it’s about the assumptions of our commodities system, and not necessarily one that enriches our spiritual lives. The following story marks [...]

I’d work here! The Encounter Restaurant at LAX
AdAge reports that some corporate offices are becoming hybrid spaces that are also lounges, bars and coffee shops. This buttresses the trend that we are increasingly moving into more “non-spaces” (see Remediation) that are required of knowledge work. In our post-work economy, we are producers and consumers of [...]

I heard in a talk by TV critic Jerry Mander that 25% of American kids have TVs in their rooms with cribs. Now this.
WP: TV’s diaper demographic - washingtonpost.com Highlights - MSNBC.com:
‘We don’t know the effects’
While almost all marketers of baby media promote their products as beneficial to a baby’s development, little is known [...]

It is a little troubling when marketers are more interested in student work than schools themselves.
Advertising Age - Digital - Want to Build a Hipper Brand? Take a Trip to Trend School:
Real school was never this cool.
Aaron aired an art film and talked up his favorite Jordan sneakers and Nike ACG jacket. Jennie unwrapped a [...]

Is this advocacy or ad-vocacy? The postironic aspect is that somehow this scene (and the others linked to in the Washington Post article below) assumes that despite global warming, normal activities like leisure and consumerism will go uninhibited. Hmmm.
High-Water Marketing - washingtonpost.com:
In print ads promoting its spring/summer collection, the Italian-based clothing company depicts landscapes that [...]