The LAMP is a non-profit media literacy education organization dedicated to creating a world of active and critical media participants. We serve nearly 1,000 students in NYC through our hands-on programming and nationwide through our MediaBreaker online critical remix tool, empowering young people to comprehend, create and challenge media messages. With the presidential election this year, The LAMP will be facilitating workshops in which young people talk back to the onslaught of political ads by re-editing the ads and inserting their own critical perspectives, questioning the authorship of the ads, the persuasion techniques, and fact-checking all the misinformation.


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Why Election 2016 is All About Remix

Just as the 1960 election is remembered for ...

Break-a-thon in a Box

The LAMP’s acclaimed Break-a-thon events are perfect introductions for youth about how, why, and for whom media are made—and now you can host ...

Lamplit: A Guide to Understanding News and Making Good Choices

This LAMPLit is a guide to the news: what news is; where it can be found; how it is produced in different media (print, TV, the Internet, etc.), how i...

MediaBreaker Video Editor

MediaBreaker is a video editor which enables you to remix – or break – a variety of media, such as commercials, news clips, music videos and more....

Lamplit: Why do I need to understand fair use?

Fair use is a notoriously gray area of law, and it’s often hard to create a set of easy rules that will apply to all cases. However, this guide outl...