Showing posts with label youth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youth. Show all posts

2.14.2008

Explicit content

8 Dutch teenagers are arrested for molestation of a 12 year old teenager. They are arrested because they filmed the incident and put it on YouTube.
This is probably not the only incident but shows how young people use video these days. I think this is not a form of self expression but tough behaviour of young kids who think the internet is a free world without any restrictions.

12.13.2007

Youth trends 2008

Peter van Woensel Kooy has published an artikel in the Marketingtribune of the youth trends in 2008. I'm not sure if i totally agree with these trends, but it's a nice list. I'm short in time so therefore it is in Dutch.

1. Social communities en info-inflatie - Het mediagebruik van jongeren levert entertainment op en het gevoel ergens bij te horen. Het deert hen niet dat de kwaliteit van de informatie via online media vaak een stuk lager ligt dan bij klassieke media en de grens tussen redactie en commercie vervaagt.
2. Werk zat - Als het gaat om opleidingen en beroepen, willen jongeren zich niet te veel vastleggen: alle opties open.
3. Geen tijd dus multitasken - Jongere generaties hebben het gevoel dat ze niet genoeg tijd hebben om alle dingen die ze willen doen ook effectief te doen: meer slordigheid.
4. Jumpstyle (2.0) - De jumpstyle-danstrend is bijna ten einde, maar parkour, tecktonik en het 'paardenmeisje' zijn in opkomst.
5. Uitgaan, comazuipen en obesitas - Consumptie is 'niet te weerstaan'.
6. Hockey (en de Rabo) is terug - Terwijl ABN Amro en Postbank averij oplopen, wordt de Rabobank wereldkampioen met de sexy, zelfbewuste hockeydames en door Fatima in te zetten.
7. Wilders-effect: terug in je tribe - De radicale toon van Wilders lijkt simpelweg te veel mensen over één kam te scheren. Een kwart van de jongeren overweegt om uit Nederland te emigreren.
8. Trend uit Parijs: de incroyables - Jonge dandy’s in Fred Perry-polo met smalle das en in strakke broeken ("de nieuwe incroyables") durven te worden uitgescholden vanwege hun persoonlijke stijl.
9. Doutzen & de celeb-branding - Doutzen Kroes en Esmee Denters bewijzen: iedereen is een ster. En C&A scoort dankzij Jan Smit.
10. De terugkomst van de punkrock-chica - Op Lowlands via zangeressen als Lily Allen, Kate Nash en Mia en in het Europese straatbeeld via Converse All Stars, slippers, Vans, Veja fairtrade en kakelbonte Nike Airs.
11. Spelen met porno - De nieuwe preutsheid van kabinet en wetenschappers springt niet over op de jeugd.
12. Al Gore en de laconieke juniorpoliticus - Onder jongeren wortelt het idee dat de wereld zonder actie 'naar de kloten' gaat. De behoefte aan duurzame rituelen en dus ook aan 'merken als bakens' stijgt.

12.05.2007

Are kids the early adaptors after the media professionals?

As you will see in the Stranger research micro blogging is a huge micro trend that will develop itself in the future months. Today I found out that the AVRO (Dutch broadcaster) has set up an micro blog concering the Junior Songfestival. Dutch kids can follow the Dutch participants by the messages that they will post by their mobile on the microblog. Very nice initiative.

12.01.2007

Sub-spheres

One of the things that I really think we should tackle is locating chatrooms and online communities in different European countries. I mean what is the Hyves of Spain or Italy or are they all on Facebook? Apparently Skyrock is for instance very big in France and Orkut is big in Brazil. I know for instance that in Finland every single teenager is on IRC-galleria.

Same goes for video sites. What are the sub-YouTubes for different genres? I am going to post this to our Facebook group for Stranger.

Emoticons

Hey people,

just saw yesterday at IDFA this amazing Dutch documentary called Emoticons about the ways teenagers girls use chatrooms and discussion boards and MSN in the Netherlands and how it works for many lonely and bullied girls as a tool for finding someone to talk to. The maker - Heddy Honigmann - might be someone to consider as a speaker for the industry meetings. I am thinking of getting in touch with her. I think one of our challenges is how we reach out to these girls.

11.21.2007

Max Cornelissen hacks 'erop los'

On this youtube channel you can find the video's from Max Cornelissen. Although the video's are used to promote IT educations and therefore not fully user generated i did want to show you these. The link is: http://www.youtube.com/user/maxcornelisse

This is a very funny one:

11.19.2007

Go supermodel

On the website http://nl.gosupermodel.com/ girls make their own super model avator. On the youTube channel http://www.youtube.com/nieuwemodellen girls uploaded their own advertorial video's to promote this new site.

10.29.2007

50 Cent - Candy Shop

I showed this to our colleagues and especially the ones with teenager children were quite worried.

Russian Parkour

Not to make this selection too girly.

10.24.2007

How to... JUMP!

For our young Dutch audience, if they don't already know, a tutorial how to jump. It is a good example how young people educate their peers on trends.

A jumpstyle tutorial:



And then, once the hype sets in, people start showing off, and uploading their own jumpstyle videos:




I would like to search for other, more European examples. But the jumpvideos might be nice, because their so very Dutch!

Regards,
Susanne