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Posts Tagged ‘media’
Girls Scouts Get New, Updated Badges; Reflect Science & Technology
In Camp, Conferences, Education, Girls, Leadership, Media & Technology on October 16, 2011 at 3:44 pmHave You Played Video Games With Your Daughter Today?
In Girls, Media & Technology on February 6, 2011 at 11:11 amAccording to a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health, gaming may be good for teen girls’ mental health — so long as they play with their parents. A Times Magazine article addresses the benefits that video gaming and parental interaction can have on adolescent girls. Read the full article.
Women on the Web: More Now than Ever
In Girls, Media & Technology on July 30, 2010 at 10:27 amThis morning I published an article via CMSwire.com that examined the changing face and place of women on the web. Excerpt is below.
For as long as there has been an Internet, men and women have used it differently. A recent ComScore report Women on the Web: How Women are Shaping the Internet revisits the changing and evolving behaviors of how women are using and engaging with the web.
The survey shows that in the last ten years, women have gravitated towards the web with gusto. From social media to online shopping to search and mobile, women’s behaviors online are not only unique, but global.
Daughters & Role Models
In Education, Girls, Media & Technology on June 27, 2010 at 8:48 pmA recent Boston.com blog called In the Parenthood offered ten tips for parents for talking to their daughters about the importance of role models, media literacy and self confidence.
A Healthy Media for Youth
In Girls, Government, Media & Technology, Uncategorized on April 20, 2010 at 11:21 amTammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) have introduced “the Healthy Media for Youth Act to “authorize grants to promote media literacy and youth empowerment programs, to authorize research on the role and impact of depictions of girls and women in the media, to provide for the establishment of a National Task Force on Girls and Women in the Media…” Read more.
