Howard Gardner on "The End of Literacy? Don't Stop Reading."
NPR story on Asian stereotypes in the media (starting with Long Duck Dong in Sixteen Candles)
WWE and new marketing push for kids from Variety. There's more here at AdWeek.
Crunchyroll, a website targeted at Asian youth
New York Times article on the Facebook application, The Honesty Box
Interesting experiment in interactive fiction sponsored by Penguin UK
New York Times article on Nickelodeon's massive games launch
Keep up with teen news with this feed at alltop.
YALSA blog post about recent coverage of teen library services
ShiftedLibrarian post about gaming and libraries (see this earlier post as well)
New web-based comic strip application
Cool time-lapse video of the spread of Wal-Mart across the US
Tame the Web on the banning of social networking sites at the Mishawaka-Penn-Harris PL in Indiana
Provocative blog post on what constitutes "real" library work these days
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The article about the WWE kids magazine is interesting. It's especially intersting because for about the past decade WWE has denied that their shows are for children. Many fans and critics found this to be a joke. The "we don't book for kids" argument simply provided the WWE an opportunity to be as vulgar and violent as they wanted while blaming everyone else for kids who watched the show. The WWE framed this as a exercise in free speech, but it was more an exercise in being crass and crude. (This is another example of the WWE manipulating information to seem like a bigger deal than it was. But really, isn't manipulation of information and reality what pro-wrestling is all about?) At one point, two major sponsors, Coke and the Army, pulled their advertising because the shows were too violent and sex-filled. (Yes, the Army thought the WWE was too violent!?!)
The magazine is another signal of a shift in the wrestling industry to again embrace programming for kids. Like all trends it comes around again, many fans and fan-run websites have said the WWE is returning to the late 80s era with gimmicky wrestlers and blander storylines. Programming aimed at children and families is perhaps another indication of this reappearing trend. Really, what's better family entertainment than two men in tiny shorts beating each other with steel folding chairs?
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