Natalie Zensius
ISIS Director of Marketing and Communications
natalie@isis-inc.org
510-835-9400
Show's producers and researchers to serve on plenary panel at national youth, health and new media conference
March 3, 2011, Oakland, CA: Curious if 16 and Pregnant glamorizes teen pregnancy, or if the girls on the shows are really Losers (with a capital "L")? Catch a glimpse of the "thinking behind" the current 16 and Pregnant MTV sensation on April 2nd in San Francisco.
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“Youth are early adopters. ... They’re looking for information on sex online and on their cell phones, so let’s make it available to them in a legitimate way,” said Deb Levine, executive director of Oakland’s ISIS and the organizer of this week’s Sex::Tech conference, a one-of-a-kind gathering to examine how to take advantage of Web 2.0 tools, mobile technology and video games to teach young people about sex.” -- San Francisco Chronicle
“Video games, text messages and the internet form a trifecta of entertainment for many teens today. Now, health educators are finding ways to use those tech tools to shape the sexual health of youth.” -- KQED National Public Radio News
“The recent Sex::Tech conference, sponsored by ISIS, turned health educators from all over North America into students focused on tech’s role and potential for public health knowledge among Generation Y.” -- Health News Today blog
“We are particularly excited to hear keynotes from Beth Kanter (one of our new media inspirations) and Tina Hoff (of the Kaiser Family Foundation), and can’t wait to hear the latest about bridging the digital divide to engage with youth from minority communities around sexual health information.” -- AIDS.gov blog
