Author: Julianna Shults

Snark, Crackle, Pop Culture: Fall 2010 Movies

Snark, Crackle, Pop Culture: Fall 2010 Movies

Posted by | Aug 31, 2010 | ,

School is starting and it’s fall again. One of my favorite parts of fall is that it is the time when all of the best movies of the year come out. (Is that very nerdy of me?) Production companies time movie releases very specifically, and fall is the time of year when all the movies that hope to be contenders during the award season take over the big screen to much discussion and acclaim. While the movies I might be excited to see may be nothing like the movies my teens are hoping to see, I still take time...

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Snark, Crackle, Pop Culture: Don’t Let the TV Stop You!

Snark, Crackle, Pop Culture: Don’t Let the TV Stop You!

Posted by | Apr 13, 2010 | ,

Recently the Kaiser Family Foundation published one of the biggest national surveys about media use (TV, movies, computers, video games, music, and books) in children and teens. The study found that youth take in an average of seven hours and 38 minutes of media a day. “The amount of time young people spend with media has grown to where it’s even more than a full-time work week,” says Drew Altman, president and CEO of the Kaiser Family Foundation. “When children are spending this much time doing anything, we need to understand how it’s affecting them–for good and bad.” This...

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