During his visit to the Brown Institute, New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet had the opportunity to stop over and speak with the staff of The Stanford Daily. Several Daily staff members also kindly lent a hand in the evening event, assisting with coordinating the crowd. Thanks again to those volunteers who could help
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Rosalie Yu featured in The Verge
In an in-depth profile on Rosalie Yu, Creative Technologist at the Brown Institute, The Verge highlights A Ritual of Habits, Yu’s latest work. Over the course of two years, Yu cataloged images of everything sweet in her diet, turning sugary confections into digital memories. Sugar is representative of physical and moral decay, but the desserts are
Dark Inquiry Launches Bail Bloc Project
The Brown Institute announces the launch of the latest project from the Dark Inquiry Magic Grant team. Bail Bloc starts with the premise that cash bail streamlines mass incarceration by preventing low-income, usually people of color, from exercising their right to a fair trial. The team writes that “prosecutors and judges work in concert to coerce low-income people
Watch ‘Experiencing Racism in VR’ at TEDxRVA
Psychologist Courtney D. Cogburn focuses her work on how racism contributes to racial inequalities in health. With support from a Magic Grant through the Brown Institute, Courtney and a team of researchers at Columbia and Stanford University have been using virtual reality to help people experience the complexities of racism to not only encourage them
1000 Cut’s member on VR and Social Change
Stanford University faculty and 1000 Cut Magic Grant member Prof. Jeremy Bailenson was recently among those cited and quoted in an August 1 USA Today Article entitled “New breed of VR pushes for social change.” The article examines how this emerging platform is being used as an instrument for letting participants examine their conceptions of
The Stanford Daily: Innovative Media Organizations Recognized
The Stanford Daily highlighted the latest round of Magic Grant recipients in a front-page article on Tuesday. Their article described the 11 projects that Brown has chosen to fund this year, and the unique space these projects inhabit at the interesection of media and technology. This year the grant projects will push the boundaries of
Brown staff in Reveal with “The Wall”
President Donald Trump’s promise to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is the subject of intense discussion. The immigration debate has raised the question about the current state of the U.S. border protections and what would be needed to build such a wall. Former Magic Grantee and current Brown staff member Allison McCartney
Stanford Daily’s take on the Media Innovation Showcase
Stanford’s campus newspaper, The Stanford Daily, gave a run down of the projects recently presented at the the Brown Media Innovation Showcase in their article, “Brown Institute showcase features tour guide drones, defense contract database.” Read their report here, or if you’d like to see the flash presenations from the night, the video is now posted (or watch
Cannabis Wire in Nieman Reports
Magic Grantees Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian are featured on the NiemanReports website with a piece entitled “Why Cannabis Coverage Needs to be a Serious Beat.” During their time with Brown, Martin and Rashidian created Cannabis Wire, a single-subject news site that “provides smart coverage of the global cannabis industry through original, in-depth nonpartisan reporting and analysis.” Their article