The recent influx of big data has surfaced a multitude of ethical questions centered around the use of digital data for social good. The first Ethics of DataConference, which will bring
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CityBeat Demo
CityBeat, a social media mining news project, will be featured at the Hacks/Hackers NYC Demo Day on Monday, March 17. Raz Schwartz of Cornell Tech and Alyssa Katz of The New York
NICAR 2014
Networks, science, and shoe-leather reporting – The Brown Institute sent six students from Columbia’s Journalism School to this year’s edition of NICAR, an annual conference in computer-assisted reporting. This year’s conference was
Left brain, right brain
Ellen Weinstein and the New York Public Library Labs recall their process for “bit by bit” in this lovely blog post. Here’s a taste: Although I use paper and pixels
CJR Article on ‘Bit by Bit’
From the Columbia Journalism Review (read the full article.) On Friday, Ellen Weinstein, an award-winning illustrator based in New York, found herself in unusual company. She was in one of
Queer Internet Studies Workshop
Jessa Lingel of the Bushwig Magic Grant Team is organizing a Workshop on Queer Internet Studies. She writes “Thanks to the awesome support of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Just Publics
Documenting a day, bit by bit
A couple images from this weekend’s “bit by bit”. We weren’t quite prepared for what would happen. I suppose in retrospect, given the amazingly talented professionals we’d managed to recruit,
A hard hat dinner
Last night, the Institute hosted a Hard Hat Dinner. We invited 14 artists, architects, journalists, entrepreneurs, and friends for a special event to celebrate the construction of our new space.