This month, The LAMP continues its workshops with Mount Hope in The Bronx and Brooklyn Prospect Charter School in Brooklyn, and will also be conducting a professional development workshop with teachers at MOUSE. This follows presentations by Executive Director D.C. Vito and Communications Director Emily Long on social media for the Business Development Institute, and Education Director Katherine Fry’s participation on a news literacy panel with the New York State Communications Association! If you’re interested in hosting a workshop for teachers or in having a LAMP representative speak at your event, email us at info@thelampnyc.org.

The LAMP recommends: Feed by M.T. Anderson

Feed by M.T. Anderson is the story of what happens if media technologies continue to develop and if we continue to fail at preparing our youth to deal with the resulting barrage of media messages. In this ironic satirical YA novel, Anderson presents a world where a computer “feed” is connected directly to the human brain, leading to a glut of consumption and information overload. Complete with brilliantly updated versions of teenage slang, Feed tells the story of a boy named Titus, who fails to question the world he lives in, until he meets Violet, a girl with a mind of her own–even if it’s still connected to the feed.–Megha Kohli

Gaslight: November
in Media History