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SUMMARY:Brown Speaker Series featuring Sean Rameswaram\, Host of Vox's Today\, Explained
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute is excited to welcome Sean Rameswaram\, host of Today\, Explained\, Vox’s daily explainer podcast. As advertised by Vox\, Today\, Explained is your all killer\, no filler\, Monday to Friday news. Sean\, a veteran of the podcast space\, will discuss Vox’s novel approach to their daily show and will join Brown Institute Director Maneesh Agrawala in conversation about the state of podcasts. Before joining Vox to host its daily news podcast\, Sean was a correspondent for Radiolab’s More Perfect. He has also made radio for the CBC\, NPR\, and WNYC\, where he hosted the fondly remembered Sideshow podcast for Studio 360. \nTuesday\, February 18 – 5pm\nAllen 101x\, Cypress Auditorium \nPaul G. Allen Building\n330 Jane Stanford Way \nRSVP for the Event
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/brown-speaker-series-featuring-sean-rameswaram-host-of-voxs-today-explained/
LOCATION:Cypress Auditorium\, Allen Extension\, 420 Via Palou Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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SUMMARY:The Green New Deal: Shaping A Public Imagination with Kim Stanley Robinson
DESCRIPTION:Can climate fiction help overcome political friction? \nWhen climate change is the focus of both fiction and nonfiction\, dystopia tends to rule. It’s not hard to see why\, given that 30 years of efforts to push past fossil fuels have barely shifted the global energy mix and impacts on humans and nature mount as vulnerable communities encounter off-the-charts climate extremes. A notable exception is the prize-winning work of Kim Stanley Robinson\, one of the planet’s most lauded living novelists of science fiction—and one who builds sweeping visions of profoundly altered\, but functioning\, civilizations on (and off) a deeply disrupted planet.  \nIn a rare stop at Columbia\, Robinson will shift his focus to the present and speak on shaping public imaginations toward an embrace the Green New Deal\, released one year ago. \nHe’ll then have a climate conversation with the audience; Kate Wagner\, architecture critic at the New Republic and contributor to Curbed\, The Atlantic\, and other publications; and Dr. Maureen Raymo\, a paleoceanographer at Columbia’s Earth Institute who studies the history of climate change and sea level rise. The moderator will be Andrew Revkin\, who’s been writing on global warming since the 1980s and is now directing a new Earth Institute initiative on communication and sustainability. \nRegister at brwn.co/kst \n\nAbout our partners\n \nThe Earth Institute Initiative on Communication and Sustainability\, launched in 2019\, is testing and spreading communication and media innovations that can cut climate risk and foster sustainable human progress. For more information\, see sustcomm.ei.columbia.edu.  \nThe Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture was founded in 1982. Its mission is to advance the interdisciplinary study of American architecture\, urbanism\, and landscape. A separately endowed entity within the Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning\, and Preservation\, it sponsors research projects\, workshops\, public programs\, publications\, and awards. For more information\, see buellcenter.columbia.edu.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/the-green-new-deal-shaping-a-public-imagination-with-kim-stanley-robinson/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Local Time: A Challenge for Visualization with Johanna Drucker\, UCLA
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up\, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism\, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their approaches to data and computation. \nLocal Time: A Challenge for Visualization\nRegister\n \nThe term “local” usually suggests a specific geographical spot\, but it also has applications to temporal systems—and to data visualisation. Yanni Loukissas developed the idea “local data\,” to insist on connection to conditions of production. This talk takes up the concept of “local” in relation to conventions for visualizing historical chronology\, time\, and temporal phenomena in news\, narrative\, and individual human experience. The notion of “local time” conflicts with the use of uniform graphic standards such as clock time and calendar dates presented on an x-axis. Conventional timelines and chronologies need to be modified through additional approaches to visualization—as well as to the data structures behind them. Using three areas of focus—historical chronologies\, experiential timelines\, and narrative theory\, this discussion suggests some alternative approaches for visualizing “local” time. \n\nAbout Johanna Drucker \n Johanna Drucker is the inaugural Breslauer Professor of Bibliographical Studies in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. She is internationally known for her work in the history of graphic design\, typography\, experimental poetry\, fine art\, and digital humanities. In addition\, she has a reputation as a book artist\, and her limited edition works are in special collections and libraries worldwide. Her most recent titles include SpecLab: Digital Aesthetics and Speculative Computing (Chicago\, 2009)\, and Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide (Pearson\, 2008\, 2nd edition late 2012). She is currently working on a database memoire\, ALL\, the online Museum of Writing in collaboration with University College London and King’s College\, and a letterpress project titled Stochastic Poetics. A collaboratively written work\, Digital_Humanities\, with Jeffrey Schnapp\, Todd Presner\, Peter Lunenfeld\, and Anne Burdick is forthcoming from MIT Press.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/local-time-a-challenge-for-visualization-with-johanna-drucker-ucla/
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SUMMARY:Data Feminism with Catherine D'Ignazio\, MIT  and Lauren Klein\, Emory University
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up\, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism\, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their approaches to data and computation. \nData Feminism\n \nJoin Now! \nAs data are increasingly mobilized in the service of governments and corporations\, their unequal conditions of production\, their asymmetrical methods of application\, and their unequal effects on both individuals and groups have become increasingly difficult for data scientists–and others who rely on data in their work–to ignore. But it is precisely this power that makes it worth asking: “Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? These are some of the questions that emerge from what we call data feminism\, a way of thinking about data science and its communication that is informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought. Illustrating data feminism in action\, this talk will show how challenges to the male/female binary can help to challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems; it will explain how an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization; how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems; and why the data never\, ever “speak for themselves.” The goal of this talk\, as with the project of data feminism\, is to model how scholarship can be transformed into action: how feminist thinking can be operationalized in order to imagine more ethical and equitable data practices. \n\nAbout Catherine D’Ignazio\n \nCatherine D’Ignazio is a scholar\, artist/designer and hacker mama who focuses on feminist technology\, data literacy and civic engagement. She has run reproductive justice hackathons\, designed global news recommendation systems\, created talking and tweeting water quality sculptures\, and led walking data visualizations to envision the future of sea level rise. With Rahul Bhargava\, she built the platform Databasic.io\, a suite of tools and activities to introduce newcomers to data science. Her 2020 book from MIT Press\, Data Feminism\, co-authored with Lauren Klein\, charts a course for more ethical and empowering data science practices. Her research at the intersection of technology\, design & social justice has been published in the Journal of Peer Production\, the Journal of Community Informatics\, and the proceedings of Human Factors in Computing Systems (ACM SIGCHI). Her art and design projects have won awards from the Tanne Foundation\, Turbulence.org and the Knight Foundation and exhibited at the Venice Biennial and the ICA Boston. D’Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT. She is also Director of the Data + Feminism Lab which uses data and computational methods to work towards gender and racial equity\, particularly in relation to space and place. \nAbout Lauren Klein\n \nLauren Klein is an associate professor in the departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University\, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab. She works at the intersection of data science\, digital humanities\, and early American literature\, with a research focus on issues of race and gender. She has designed platforms for exploring the contents of historical newspapers\, recreated forgotten visualization schemes with fabric and addressable LEDs\, and\, with her students\, cooked meals from early American recipes—and then visualized the results. In 2017\, she was named one of the “rising stars in digital humanities” by Inside Higher Ed. She is the author of An Archive of Taste: Race and Eating in the Early United States (University of Minnesota Press\, 2020) and\, with Catherine D’Ignazio\, Data Feminism (MIT Press\, 2020). With Matthew K. Gold\, she edits Debates in the Digital Humanities\, a hybrid print-digital publication stream that explores debates in the field as they emerge. Her current project\, Data by Design: An Interactive History of Data Visualization\, 1786-1900\, was recently funded by an NEH-Mellon Fellowship for Digital Publication.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/data-feminism-with-catherine-dignazio-mit-and-lauren-klein-emory-university/
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SUMMARY:Anger + Hope - The founding of NPR and lessons for the future of public media
DESCRIPTION:RSVP here – Streaming at ohyay.co/s/npr\nBill Siemering is a radio visionary. Sixty years ago\, Siemering was hired to transform WBFO from a student-run college radio club into a professional station. Because of the experiments in radio that he led at WBFO throughout the 1960s\, Siemering was invited to serve on the first board of what would become National Public Radio. He was also invited to write the original mission statement of NPR—while he was still working in Buffalo. Siemering went on to help create NPR’s flagship program\, All Things Considered and also what we know today as Fresh Air. Fifty years later\, Siemering is still passionate about the power of radio\, now doing much of his work in the developing world. \nNationally renowned broadcast journalist Susan Stamberg is a special correspondent for NPR. Stamberg is the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program\, and has won every major award in broadcasting. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the Radio Hall of Fame. An NPR “founding mother\,” Stamberg has been on staff since the network began in 1971. Beginning in 1972\, Stamberg served as co-host of NPR’s award-winning newsmagazine All Things Considered for 14 years. She then hosted Weekend Edition Sunday\, and now reports on cultural issues for Morning Edition and Weekend Edition Saturday.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/anger-hope-the-founding-of-npr-and-lessons-for-the-future-of-public-media/
LOCATION:Virtual
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SUMMARY:Women in Mathematics and Statistics
DESCRIPTION:Finding Strength in the Numbers: Growing Up Stories \nThe Columbia-Barnard Mathematics Departments and the Columbia Statistics Department are proud to invite you to our inaugural Women in Mathematics and Statistics (WiMS) presentation Finding Strength in the Numbers: Growing Up Stories. Our speakers will share their STEM journey and how they are making their mark in their fields. \nRegister Here \nSpeakers: \nKristen Gore\, PhD\, Statistician & Data Strategist\, HP\nLindsay Piechnik\, PhD\, Term Assistant Professor of Mathematics\, Barnard College\nAlejandra Quintos Lima\, Statistics PhD Candidate\, Columbia University\nOpening Remarks: Tian Zheng\, PhD\, Chair\, Department of Statistics\, Columbia University\nModerator: Daniela De Silva\, PhD\, Chair\, Department of Mathematics\, Barnard College \n 
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/women-in-mathematics-and-statistics/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Computing &: A conversation series on computation and storytelling
DESCRIPTION:The Vagelos Computational Science Center (CSC) at Barnard College in partnership with The Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School welcome you to Computing &\, a series of panels exploring the complex and multifaceted role of computing in spaces of public life. \nFramed around the theme of ‘Computing &’\, we will rotate through three crucial subtopics\, each representing an area where computation directly impacts vulnerable communities and the stories told about them. The discussions will highlight the oppressive and surveillant aspects of technology\, as well as the innovative ways individuals and groups have leveraged technology and journalistic reporting to counteract these effects. This event is in-person only. \nThe three panels will focus on the following topics: \n2:00pm – 3:15pm \n\nComputing & Carceral Technology: A deep dive into the role of computation on communities pre-\, during\, and post-incarceration\, exploring carceral technologies and alternative information networks. Featuring Sylvia Ryerson\, Dan “April” Feng\, Martin Garcia\, Clarence Okoh\, and moderated by Adam Iscoe.\n\n3:30pm – 4:45pm \n\nComputing & Queering Tech: A discussion on the role of queer communities in the design and implementation of internet technologies\, examining the challenges and opportunities presented by the digital world. Featuring Afsaneh Rigot\, Christina Dragon\, Colleen Macklin\, and a Tech Learning Collective instructor.\n\n5:00pm – 6:15pm \n\nComputing & Reproductive Justice: An exploration of how technology intersects with reproductive rights and justice. Featuring Anna Louise Sussman\, Runa Sandvik\, Dr. Kameelah Phillips\, and moderated by Saima Akhtar.\n\nComputing & is a unique series of talks that engage area experts\, scholars\, technologists\, and journalists working to expose and challenge harms often invisible to the masses. Full bios below. \nRegister to Attend \n__________________________________________________________________________________ \nChristina Dragon (she|her) serves as the Measurement and Data Lead in the NIH Sexual and Gender Minority Research Office. Previously she served as the Sexual and Gender Minority Data Lead in Medicare’s Office of Minority Health and as the data analyst for the Health People 2020 LGBT Health topic area at the National Center for Health Statistics\, CDC\, and has over a decade’s experience working on federal SGM data. She serves as the Terminology Subgroup lead for the Measuring Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Research Group\, part of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM)\, and recently co-led the subgroup on SOGISC data in administrative forms for the Federal Evidence Agenda on LGBTQI+ Equity. She holds a Masters’ Degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health\, and a double major from Smith College in Neuroscience and Woman and Gender Studies. \nDan “April” Feng is the Chief Operating Officer at Ameelio. She holds a Masters degree in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics. An economist by training and curious by nature\, she had dedicated her work to solving the hardest challenges at the most critical time. Her previous experiences include solving social loneliness with Freakonomics author\, Steven Levitt\, working at the UK Parliament during Brexit\, and managing public  transportation innovations under then Mayor Pete Buttigieg. \nMartin Garcia is the Manager of News Inside\, the print publication of The Marshall Project\, and the Associate of Inside Story\, The Marshall Project’s new video series\, both of which are distributed in hundreds of prisons and jails throughout the United States. Martin is also one of the co-chairs of The Marshall Project’s Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion Committee. He is a Mercy College graduate and well versed in Department of Corrections policy. Previously\, Martin was a community coordinator for Worth Rises\, part of The Osborne Association as a Children’s Center Caregiver\, and an Advisor to its NY Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents. \nAdam Iscoe is a writer and editor from Austin\, Texas. His work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Harper’s Magazine\, Texas Monthly and McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. Iscoe is an editor at Lapham’s Quarterly. In 2019\, he worked as a Visiting Scholar at The University of California\, Berkeley. He has also taught journalism at Solano State Prison\, in Vacaville\, California; and edited The San Quentin News\, an award winning newspaper produced by incarcerated journalists at San Quentin State Prison. \nColleen Macklin is a game designer and an Associate Professor in the school of Art\, Media and Technology at Parsons School of Design. She’s interested in how games model and reveal ideologies through systems. At Parsons\, she is the founder and co-director of PETLab\, a design research lab that develops games for experimental learning and social engagement. PETLab projects include disaster preparedness games and sports with the Red Cross\, the urban activist game Re:Activism and the physical/fiscal sport Budgetball. She is a member of the game design collective Local No. 12\, known for the videogame Dear Reader and the social card game\, The Metagame. She has co-authored (with John Sharp)\, Games\, Design and Play: A detailed look at iterative game design (Addison Wesley Professional\, 2016) and Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design and Failure (MIT Press\, 2019). Colleen has a BFA in Media Arts from Pratt Institute\, and an MA in International Affairs from The New School. \nClarence Okoh is a civil rights attorney and racial justice advocate whose work addresses the impact of mass criminalization and economic divestment in Black communities\, with a particular focus on Black youth and young adults. Clarence is Senior Policy Counsel at the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP)\, where he leads the organization’s cross-team policy agenda to advance youth-led\, anti-carceral approaches to community safety by challenging systems that surveil and punish Black\, brown and Indigenous youth in low-income communities. He is also an inaugural member of the Just Tech Fellows at the Social Science Research Council. In this capacity Clarence leads a project designed to better understand and challenge the use of emerging technologies to criminalize Black and brown youth and systematically violate their civil and human rights. \nDr. Kameelah Phillips is a board certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist\, wife\, mother\, and lifelong women’s health advocate. She is an educator\, mentor\, and expert in women’s health issues and has been involved in local\, national\, and international organizations aimed at advancing women’s health care issues through advocacy and direct patient care. \nAfsaneh Rigot is a scholar and researcher covering issues of law\, technology\, LGBTQ\, refugee\, and human rights. Her work and her research pose questions about the effects of technology in contexts for which it was not designed\, and the effects of western-centrism on vulnerable and hard-to-reach communities. She also looks\, in theory and practice\, at how to constructively engage with power-holding corporations. She is a senior researcher at ARTICLE 19 focusing on MENA LGBTQ and Tech issues\, an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society\, Advisor to the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard University\, and a  Technology and Public Purpose Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s  Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She is the founder of the Design From the Margins tech design methodology. \nSylvia Ryerson is a PhD Candidate in American Studies at Yale University\, with a Master’s concentration in the public humanities. Prior to graduate school she worked as an independent radio producer\, and at the Appalshop media arts and education center in Whitesburg\, Kentucky. There she served as a reporter and the director of public affairs programming\, and co-directed Appalshop/WMMT-FM’s Hip Hop from the Hilltop & Calls from Home radio show\, a nationally recognized weekly radio program broadcasting music and toll-free phone messages from family members to their loved ones who are incarcerated\, and Making Connections News\, a multimedia community storytelling project documenting efforts for a just transition from coal extraction. Her research questions build from this work\, and are rooted at the intersection of scholarship\, activism\, and art. \nRuna Sandvik is the founder of Granitt\, a company focused on security for journalists and other at-risk people. Her work builds upon experience from her time at The New York Times\, Freedom of the Press Foundation\, and The Tor Project. Originally from Oslo\, she now lives in New York. \nAnna Louie Sussman is a journalist who writes on gender\, economics\, and reproduction. She is working on her first book\, about the relationship between capitalism and reproduction\, for Dey Street Books. \nTech Learning Collective is an apprenticeship-based technology school for radical organizers founded in New York City that provides a security-first IT infrastructure curriculum to otherwise underserved communities and organizations advancing social justice causes. We train politically self-motivated individuals in the arts of hypermedia\, Information Technology\, and radical political practice. Founded and operated exclusively by radical queer and femme technologists\, we offer unparalleled free\, by-donation\, and low-cost computer classes on topics ranging from fundamental computer literacy to the same offensive computer hacking techniques used by national intelligence agencies and military powers (cyber armies).\n 
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/computing-and/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Crime Reporting
DESCRIPTION:The crime beat has long been leveraged by American newsrooms to drive traffic\, generate revenue\, and fulfill the duty of informing the public. While the familiar narrative of perpetrators committing crimes consistently captures the public’s attention\, these stories rarely produce the safer communities promised by being better-informed citizens\, especially for the individuals and communities historically narrativized as criminals. \nBut some journalists are reframing their focus on policing to tell stories about public safety. And in turn\, they’re undertaking the big task of rethinking the journalist’s role in shaping public perceptions of safety and the stories we tell about crime. \nJoin the Brown Institute for a discussion that rethinks what crime coverage can look like and how journalists can better create work that gives the public what it needs to know. \nFeatured Speakers\nKelly McBride\, Poynter\nMatt Stroud\, Better Government Association\nChenjerai Kumanyika\, UnCivil Podcast\nModerated by Todd Whitney\, Brown Institute\n \nRegister to Attend \nDrinks and snacks will be provided following the discussion
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/rethinking-crime-reporting/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Exploring AI Threats to Electoral Integrity
DESCRIPTION:2024 will be a landmark election year in at least two ways. First\, more than a quarter of the countries in the world\, representing a third of global population\, and comprising several of the largest democracies\, including Indonesia\, India\, and the United States\, will cast ballots. Second\, this will be the first large election cycle since the release of a new suite of advanced AI tools and systems that enable the generation of text\, images\, sound and video\, and will potentially change the landscape of political communication and behavior in profound ways\, including through so-called hallucinations\, deep fakes and voice cloning. In the face of these challenges\, we have deep information asymmetries and a critical need for transparent broad-scale testing of AI in real-world scenarios. This panel will explore known and unknown threats to election integrity and introduce a new initiative\, the AI Democracy Projects\, that aims to publicly benchmark the performance of AI chatbots that are becoming a popular source of public information. \nJoin AI Democracy Projects founders–award-winning investigative journalist Julia Angwin and Alondra Nelson\, professor at the Institute for Advanced Study\, who led the development of the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights\, and the Honorable Francisco V. Aguilar\, Nevada Secretary of State\, for a conversation with SIPA Lecturer Camille François about the potential risks and benefits to the US election ecosystem presented by AI\, and how policymakers\, AI experts\, and journalists can begin to test AI tools for electoral-information integrity in a way that provides education\, information\, and accountability to the public. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia SIPA and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School \nAbout the Institute of Global Politics (IGP) at Columbia SIPA \nThe Institute of Global Politics (IGP) convenes leading scholars and practitioners to advance policy solutions to today’s pressing global challenges. IGP brings together experts—from the public and private sectors and across the political spectrum—to foster civil discourse and create evidence-based policy strategies for local to global impact. \nAbout the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School \nEstablished in 2012\, the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute is a collaboration between Columbia and Stanford Universities\, designed to encourage and support new endeavors in media innovation. Our partnership operates as an academic venture forum focusing on three distinct areas: granting\, offering over $1M in grants each year to support innovative media projects by students\, faculty\, and alums; research and teaching\, providing technical instruction to students and to the community; and research and development\, where our Local News Lab develops AI-powered tools to assist local newsrooms. \nSpeakers: \n\nJulia Angwin\, award-winning investigative journalist; founder of Proof News; best-selling author; contributing writer\, New York Times Opinion; and Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media\, Politics and Public Policy\, Harvard Kennedy School.\nAlondra Nelson\, Harold F. Linder Professor\, Institute for Advanced Study; Distinguished Fellow\, Center for American Progress; former Deputy Assistant to President Joe Biden and Acting Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy\nFrancisco “Cisco” V. Aguilar\, Nevada Secretary of State; former General Counsel for Agassi Graf and the Andre Agassi Foundation for Education; former Special Counsel to the Chancellor of the Nevada System of Higher Education.\n\nModerator:  \nCamille François\, IGP Affiliated Faculty \n_____ \nPlease note: \nCheck-in begins 30 minutes before the event and early arrival is strongly recommended\, as this registration does not guarantee a seat. IDs and CUIDs will be checked at registration. We will release seats to the waitlist at the start of the event. \nRecording and photography: \nThis event will be photographed and filmed. By being present\, you consent to Columbia University using such photographs and video for educational and promotional purposes. \nGuests with disabilities: \nColumbia University makes every effort to accommodate individuals with disabilities. Guests with disabilities can request assistance from the Office of Disability Services at (212) 854-2388 or disability@columbia.edu.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/exploring-ai-threats-to-electoral-integrity/
LOCATION:Livestream and SIPA
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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SUMMARY:Queer Data: Who Counts?
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Guyan will join CJS for a talk on “Queer Data”. Guyan\, soon to be a Fellow at the University of Edinburgh\, has written extensively on data collection and LGBTQ communities. The first step in so many reporting projects is a data set\, and even our own US Census Bureau has proposed asking questions about Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity on the American Community Survey. What is different about Queer Data? How has it been collected and why? What has been the impact on Queer communities? \nKevin Guyan will touch on these and other questions in his lunchtime talk “Queer Data: Who Counts?”. This is the first speaker in the Computational Journalism Class taught this spring by Mark Hansen and Gina Chua. (We will occasionally open our talks to the whole school.) The Office of the CJS Director of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion is co-sponsoring this event. \nLunch will be served\, but please register for the talk so we know how much to order. \nQueer Data: Who Counts? \n[Register here to reserve a lunch] \nBlurb: Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined\, collected and used. But who counts in the collection\, analysis and application of data? Join Kevin Guyan to discuss themes from his book Queer Data: Using Gender\, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action (Bloomsbury Academic) including the relationship between data and visibility\, the politics of who and how to count\, and the intersection of queer lives and everyday data practices and systems. \nBio: Dr Kevin Guyan is a researcher whose work explores the intersection of data and identity. He is the author of Queer Data (Bloomsbury Academic\, 2022) and is currently writing his second book\, which explores queer encounters with different classification systems in the UK\, from hate crime reporting to dating apps. In March 2024\, Kevin joins the University of Edinburgh Business School as a Chancellor’s Fellow.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/queer-data-who-counts/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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SUMMARY:Human Rights Reporting: A Focus on Journalism and AI
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this special panel which will focus on global reporting on human rights\, as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights\, within the evolving landscape of AI and the challenges and opportunities it presents. \nDelving into the influence of AI in international media and how the technology can be leveraged for human rights reporting\, the panel will address the technology’s computational capacities\, analytic capabilities\, map making\, and case making for reports of human rights abuse and documentation. The event aims to bring together leading experts\, scholars\, practitioners\, and students across the disciplines of journalism\, AI\, and human rights. \nPanelists\nLena Arkawi\nCEO & Founder\nSourceable \nSam Gregory\nExecutive Director\nWitness \nMounir Ibrahim\nExecutive Vice President of Public Affairs and Impact\nTruepic \nModerated by\nAnya Schiffrin\nDirector of Technology\, Media\, and Communications\nColumbia University\nSchool of International and Public Affairs \n  \nPlease join us for this timely exchange\, a joint presentation of the David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Columbia Journalism School and the United Nations Association of New York\, when our special guests will include: Lena Arkawi\, CEO and Founder of Sourceable\, an online platform and mobile application empowering citizen journalists; Sam Gregory\, Executive Director of the global human rights organization WITNESS; and Mounir Ibrahim\, EVP of Public Affairs and Impact for Truepic\, an award winning technology company specializing in image provenance and authenticity. The panel will be moderated by Anya Schiffrin\, director of Technology\, Media\, and Communications at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. \nRegister for this event here\n 
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/human-rights-reporting-a-focus-on-journalism-and-ai/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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SUMMARY:AI\, Creativity\, Media\, and Our Shared Commons (Postponed until the Fall!)
DESCRIPTION:In just 2023\, new advances in generative AI uprooted our collective understanding of the knowledge and cultural commons we share online. It challenged assumptions of creativity and copyright ownership\, data privacy\, and the spread of information and misinformation. Despite legal and ethical uncertainties\, AI’s impact in our shared commons continues to grow. \nCreative Commons (CC) seeks to advance open access to culture and knowledge in the public interest. CC unites with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation for the next installment in a series of community conversations around AI. Join us for a dynamic panel discussion to debate AI’s implications for creativity\, media and our shared commons in the public interest. Following the panel discussion will be a light reception. \nPanelists to be announced! \nCreative Commons (CC) is a global nonprofit organization that advances open access to culture and knowledge in the public interest. CC built and stewards the open licenses that power millions of people’s unfettered access to culture\, research\, information\, education and more. There are over 2.5 billion CC licenses being used across 9 million websites\, to date.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/ai-creativity-media-and-our-shared-commons/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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SUMMARY:Abortion in Data and in Reporting
DESCRIPTION:Inspired by Barnard College’s launch of Trigger Planting 2.0\, an exhibition that explores the impact of the 2022 Dobbs vs. Jackson Supreme Court decision on abortion access\, this event convenes investigative journalists and researchers who share their experiences reporting on abortion in the US. Panelists will discuss how they access\, analyze and represent data\, and the obstacles they may face while navigating a shifting legal landscape and issues of privacy and security. The conversation will also consider stories left out of the frame of mainstream coverage\, including challenges faced by underrepresented communities and the informal nature of community care outside of medicalized settings. The panel will be followed by a reception. \nRegister to Attend \n​Panelists: \n​Caitlin Myers\, Middlebury College \n​Caitlyn Ralph\, The Pudding \n​Johana Bhuiyan\, The Guardian \n​This event is made possible with support from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, the Barnard Vagelos Computational Science Center (CSC)\, Milstein Exhibitions\, and Barnard + Columbia Architecture
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/abortion-in-data-and-in-reporting/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251114T133000
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SUMMARY:Video Podcasting Essentials with Nick Michael\, NPR
DESCRIPTION:Video podcasts are everywhere\, but making one that looks sharp\, sounds great\, and actually connects with an audience takes more than just hitting record. Join Nick Michael\, Supervising Producer of Visuals for NPR to learn the building blocks for a professional approach. He’ll discuss principles for a full production workflow: setup/prep\, gear recs\, recording\, editing full episodes\, editing vertical clips for social and more. Pizza and drinks will be provided. Nick will be virtual but we will be gathering in person. \nRegister to Attend \n\nMito Habe-Evans/NPR\nNick Michael is a supervising editor for the Visuals team\, where he leads the design and delivery of complex editorial projects. Those projects include NPR-in-a-Minute\, which in the span of 18 months piloted over a dozen shortform video series and garnered 1 billion views across Instagram\, TikTok and YouTube. He also serves as editorial lead for NPR’s foray publishing podcasts to YouTube. \nHe has co-managed the growth of NPR’s award-winning video team\, highlights of which include co-crafting the look of NPR’s signature interviews with President Obama\, supervising two seasons of NPR Music’s The Formula and coordinating 22 filmmakers across the country to document 2017’s solar eclipse. \nMichael joined NPR in 2014 as the lead video producer for Jazz Night in America\, NPR’s first program with companion radio and video content. Jazz Night‘s 2017 portfolio earned a Peabody nomination. \nBefore NPR\, Michael co-founded 1504\, a video studio based in Birmingham\, Ala. He earned an M.A. in photojournalism from the University of Missouri.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/video-podcast-essentials/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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SUMMARY:Learn how to Create News Content for Social Media - Discussion
DESCRIPTION:What should journalism look like in a social media-dominated world? Join us for a two day hands-on workshop\, brought to you by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism\, in which you’ll build essential skills and create your own TikTok-style video! \nFriday will kick off with pizza and a conversation with Joseph Ferguson\, host and producer on the Washington Post Universe TikTok Team\, and June Kim\, graphics and multimedia editor at the New York Times and recent Columbia Journalism School alum. We’ll explore topics including thinking visually\, speaking the language of modern audiences\, and telling stories that would be impossible in another medium. \nSaturday will be a hands-on workshop with Joseph\, who will guide participants through the complete process of creating a vertical video—from concept to final edit. No experience required. Yes\, you can learn this in a day\, and you will leave with a video you made yourself! \nRegister here. Space is limited for Saturday’s workshop. It is not required to attend both days. \nQuestions? Contact Megan Kim mk4643@tc.columbia.edu or Eric Chen ec3729@columbia.edu
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/learn-how-to-create-news-content-for-social-media/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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