The LAMP, “Learning About Multimedia Project”, is a non-profit
organization creating a grassroots movement to reform and improve
media. This is achieved through free media literacy workshops and
public events for youth, parents and educators.
http://www.thelampnyc.org/
Please RSVP at indexfestival@gmail.com

Katherine Fry is a professor of media studies in the Department of Television and Radio at Brooklyn College of
the City University of New York. She earned her Ph.D. in Mass Media and
Communication from Temple University in 1994, and brings to The LAMP
many years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in
media history, criticism, theory and research methods. She has an
extensive background in curriculum development. In addition to her
teaching, Dr. Fry’s publications include the following books: Constructing the Heartland: Television News and Natural Disaster (2003, Hampton Press); and Identities in Context: Media, Myth, Religion in Space and Time (2008,
Hampton Press). She has also published articles and contributed to
books about communication technology and psychological well-being,
television news, advertising and popular culture and radio. Her current
research is in the history of news and in the future of news from the
audience perspective. Fry is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York State Communication Association, and holds memberships with, and regularly presents on panels for, the International Communication Association and the Media Ecology Association.
This event is part of the Index Festival (August 3-28, 2011)
The Index Festival will transpire in August 2011 in New York City. Our aim
is to bring together individuals and groups who cognitively engage
media culture. We welcome the interdisciplinary, shared and
accessible culture we are coming to live in as a result of digital
technology.  Our mission is to focus on projects that blur the
vocabulary of science and art, dissect the media that describes our
culture today, and to disseminate out from the [cultural] institution,
and further into the multi textural international landscape.