New Media Tech

Recently with my Level 3 Media Studies students (last year of high school here in NZ), we have been looking at the way governments advertise to effect social change - for better or for worse they decide.

Here is an interesting site called Eat Better America which I assume is similar to our 5+ a Day type campaigns. However, this site is very cool… you get to have a food fight with a character of your choosing - I chose a crazy canteen type woman who throws food at you and it splats all over your computer screen - but then runs around the page encouraging you to try and hit her with food… you get to pick up any food from the page and aim it at her… crazy!!! But funny!!! I guess it’s got novelty factor and in the mean time you are exposed to recipes that are ‘good for you’ and hopefully that you might consider making at home…

A series of photos of families and the food they have eaten over the past week and an estimated cost of each family’s food for the week. It’s supported by Time and there are plenty of other photo essays for you to flick through. Time photo essays.