What Teenagers Want for Christmas
Youth CultureTeenSpot has released a survey of what teenagers want this Christmas.
Girls
1) iPod
2) Cell phone
3) Laptop
4) Digital Camera
Guys
1) Playstation 3
3) Xbox 360
4) Nintendo Wii
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Youth Culture- How a 19-year-old actress and a few struggling Web filmmakers took on TV. A Wired exclusive.
- This is not a good thing. While we tend in our culture to celebrate reason and careful, deliberative decision making, some psychologists are now arguing that the opposite value sometimes holds.
- In “Go Ahead, I Dare You,” Newsweek columnist Wray Herbert presents new scientific research on why teenagers do stupid things.
- AXE DEODORANT SET UP THE 888-AXE-ADVICE hotline dedicated to helping guys hook up with hometown honeys on Thanksgiving Eve, which it’s dubbing “Hometown Hump Day” in a new promotion. Dispensing the advice is Estelle Harris, who played George Costanza’s TV
- If you’re a parent with teenage kids, you may assume when you drop them off at the movie theater they are there to watch a movie.
- One large component of today’s world that’s largely ignored or misunderstood by those of us in ministry is the unique world of our children and teens. Youth culture is the soup they swim in every day.
- From dating to cellphones, music to makeup, behavior shifting earlier
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Youth Culture- TEEN RETAILERS: RECORD NUMBERS, ROSY predictions The grown-ups in their lives may be worried about the Fed, inflation, and when the housing market might rebound. But American kids have been on a shopping spree, and some teen retailers expect their cash re
- It’s one of the most widespread problems in the country among teens: inhalents. One that more and more teens fall victim to every year. They call it huffing, and in some cases the consequences are deadly.
- Early in Casino Royale, James Bond arrives at a ritzy tropical resort in a blue Ford Mondeo, the kind of nice-but-everyday vehicle that projects “suburban dad” more than “superspy.”
- Try as you might, it’s pretty hard to escape the fact that Sony’s next-generation PlayStation 3 console launched today.
The Simpsons Movie Trailer
Youth CultureI can’t wait!
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Youth Culture- Worlds collided last month in Brooklyn. In a dark neighborhood of warehouses called DUMBO, in a theater usually reserved for edgy bands and performance artists, real actors performed, straight up and without irony, “Hell House,” an evangelical Christian v
- Ten years ago a Colorado preacher wrote a manual about how to stage a Christian-themed haunted house. It sold for $199.
- Sometimes a scavenger hunt is just a scavenger hunt. That’s all it is at many churches, where the frenzied chase to collect trinkets and complete silly tasks is a perennial activity aimed at getting teenagers into their doors.
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Youth Culture- Listen to many critics of higher education, and you would think that faith had been long ago banished from the quad — or at least all those quads not at places like Notre Dame or Liberty or Yeshiva
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Youth Culture- Shirley Pehlps-Roper on Fox News
- Media-savvy teens less likely to smoke PITTSBURGH, Oct. 9 (UPI) — Teens who are savvier about the motives and methods of advertisers may be less inclined to smoke cigarettes, finds a U.S. study.
- NEW YORK — To hype the fall TV season, CBS plastered pictures of its shows’ stars on postage stamps and across the insides of elevator doors. It laser-coated its eye logo on more than 35 million eggs, and carved the name of a new program, Jericho, into
- ONLINE GAMING IS OFTEN PERCEIVED as a predominantly male pastime, but the vast majority of active online gamers in the United States are women, according to a study released Thursday by Nielsen Entertainment.
- For some, it would be unthinkable – certain social suicide. But Gabe Henderson is finding freedom in a recent decision: He canceled his MySpace account.
- Undaunted by the fact that most 18- to 34-year-old male consumers TiVo through commercials and click off intrusive online ads, corporations are plowing ahead with novel interactive strategies to bring their advertising messages to gamers.