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Check out photos from The LAMP’s PSA Workshop with Immigrant Social Services!
For the last few weeks, The LAMP has been working with teens from Immigrant Social Services in the Two Bridges neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. They’ve been writing, shooting, researching and editing...
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Spotlight: Jennifer Liu, Filmmaker for Social Justice and LAMP Facilitator
Jennifer Liu teaching teens at Immigrant Social Services to edit their videos. Jennifer Liu is an all-star facilitator for The LAMP. She was a critical part of sustaining our program with the Queens...
View ArticleDML 2013, Day 1: Digital Media Learning is Civic Engagement
The theme of this year’s Digital Media Learning conference is “Democratic Futures,” but as I move through today’s panels and presentations, the process of learning to use/create digital media and the...
View ArticleDML 2013, Day 2: About Those Levers for Change…
As discussed in yesterday’s post recapping Day 1 of the Digital Media Learning conference here in Chicago, one point raised by Ethan Zuckerman in both his keynote (video below) and panel presentation...
View ArticleCheck out final PSA projects from The LAMP’s workshop with Immigrant Social...
Our Public Service Announcement (PSA) workshop with Immigrant Social Services (ISS) wrapped up last weekend, and we’re so proud of the completed videos made by our students! These PSAs, focusing on...
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The NYC Teen Pregnancy Campaign in Context
Images from the recent teen pregnancy print campaign by New York City’s Human Resources Administration. I first read about New York City’s Human Resource Administration’s latest public health campaign...
View ArticleThe LAMP’s Annmarie Haubert on Good Morning America!
We are so proud of LAMP facilitator Annmarie Haubert and her ongoing work with Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation, so we were thrilled when she appeared last Friday on Good Morning America and gave a...
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Racist media flaps: from Imus to Businessweek
Time magazine takes on the Imus language debate in 2007. It’s been almost six years to the day that Don Imus had the loose lips to call Rutger University’s (mostly Black) girls basketball team...
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Behind the Media Machine: How a Bloomberg Press Conference is Like Vegas
At Mayor Bloomberg’s press conference on March 25. LAMP Executive Director D.C. Vito 2nd from left in back row; OBT’s Randy Peers at left of Mayor Bloomberg. Photo by Spencer T. Tucker. When we got the...
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Why Kids & Teens Are Seeing More Junk Food Commercials Than Ever
Still from “LAMPlatoon: How Cereal Gets In Your Head.” Click for video. Advertising food to children has long been an area of concern. Questions abound as to how much junk food should be advertised...
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What We’re Not Seeing: When Media Make a Mockery of Justice
Nancy Grace weighs in on the Jodi Arias murder trial. I am not a huge fan of Nancy Grace and the grim tales of grizzly homicides, graphic criminal acts, and disturbed cases that she covers regularly on...
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Volunteer with The LAMP in April!
The LAMP Volunteer Newsletter April 2013 Make commercials in Manhattan! Students shooting PSAs in lower Manhattan. Our ‘Make a Commercial’ workshop at a public school in Morningside Heights needs...
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Spotlight: Tom Gray, Executive Director of GVCCC and LAMP Junior Board Member
Tom Gray This month we sat down with Tom Gray, current Executive Director of the Greenwich Village-Chelsea Chamber of Commerce, co-founder of Rally Downtown, and member of The LAMP’s first Junior...
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Tom Gray, Brunchtacular, Junk Food Commercial Facts: April News from The LAMP!
The LAMP’s Illuminations April 2013 April News Roundup Spring has sprung, and The LAMP is in full bloom! This month, we started our anti-gun violence PSA series with John Jay Secondary School in...
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Infographic: Women And Girls in STEM
The lack of women and girls in STEM and STEM careers is a significant issue. The LAMP has been vocal on this before, so when we were sent this infographic mapping out the roots and challenges at the...
View ArticleDear NY Times: Why let Dove’s “real beauty” ads off the hook?
I was disappointed to read Tanzina Vega’s story in the New York Times about the recent commercial from Dove as part of their “real beauty” campaign. While it’s touching to read about the epiphany that...
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Lyrical Lacerations, from NWA to Rick Ross
Cartoon by Kevin Eason. Click here for original source. Rappers make songs under the creative licenses of their whims, songs are released, and sometimes these songs top the charts. Other times they...
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Support The LAMP & NYC small businesses on Saturday!
Use the code ‘LAMP’ for 15% off tickets–click here to buy now!
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Infographic: Revisiting Pew’s Tech-Savvy Teacher Report
Back in February, the Pew Research Center released a report about how National Writing Project and Advanced Placement teachers are using technology in the classroom. In our coverage of the report, we...
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