Join the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University as we welcome New York Times Executive Editor Dean Baquet in a conversation on media, the news, and the state of journalism. Tickets available via Eventbrite.
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This is perhaps our most experimental event in terms of “distance” from journalistic practice. Augmented reality (AR) provides a view of an event or phenomenon that is enhanced, “augmented,” with
The storytelling capacity with AR is enormous, although the toolsets are still a bit hard to use. Join members from Etsy and the New York Times to get up-and-running with augmented reality, and spend the day building a story prototype utilizing the technology. Apply for the workshop
Join Columbia University's Tow Center for Digital Journalismand the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University on April 13 for an afternoon conference on: Public Record Under Threat: News and the Archive in the Age of Digital Distribution. Panels will feature journalists, technologists, librarians, and engineers who will discuss how they are preserving the
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce another training session related to Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) -- this one is brought to you by our own Rosalie Yu. Alternative Capturing Techniques for 3D Storytelling What can our phone cameras capture besides 2D images? How can you reconstruct a world in 3D using these
RSVP HERE What would a news organization look like if it was optimized for user trust? Getting there will take innovation, but not primarily the kind that involves new tech. Jay Rosen will spell out what he means by "optimizing for trust," and suggest the kind of innovation required, much of which involves new forms
For the second Journocoders NYC, we’ll be exploring the web-based coding notebook service Observable. This is a fairly new online platform, but Observable notebooks are already being used to produce
The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School; Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School; Technology, Media, and Communications specialization at the School of International and Public Affairs; and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University are hosting a conference to exchange
Journocoders NYC is a monthly meetup for journalists and others working in the media to learn and share technical skills for use in their reporting. That might be data analysis as part of an investigation, scraping data from government websites, building data visualisations to better tell a story, or something else entirely. RSVP HERE For
On September 6, from 9am-5pm, the Brown Institute is proud to host a day devoted to public data. It is designed for students in journalism, statistics and data science — essentially anyone who has an interest in understanding their neighborhoods, their cities, their state and even the nation through data. Throughout the day, students will
Journocoders NYC is a monthly meetup for journalists and others working in the media to learn and share technical skills for use in their reporting. That might be data analysis as part of an investigation, scraping data from government websites, building data visualisations to better tell a story, or something else entirely. This month Journocoders
At 4:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the Brown Institute for Media Innovation (2nd Floor, Pulitzer Hall), the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series will highlight programmers, data scientists, and other practitioners from the private sector who lead cutting-edge technology initiatives such as Python, C++, and the Open Source Initiative. The first of the Distinguished Lecture series features Dr. Bjarne Stroustrup,
The Brown Institute and Tow Center serve as a digital hub at the school, researching and building the future of journalism. Join us in the Brown Institute to meet with researchers and staff, and learn more about the various opportunities and offerings afforded to students during their time at the Journalism School as well as
Join us for a Seminar on September 19, 2018 to learn about Knowing Together, a project by Rosalie Yu, Creative Technologist at the Brown Institute. In the past Yu has worked with 3D capturing techniques to explore the limits of perception and memory, to reflect upon archiving practices, to transform everyday experience through rituals, and to interrogate the
Corey Ford, Managing Partner and Founder of the bicoastal media accelerator Matter, joins the Brown Institute for a discussion about upcoming media/tech trends and what it takes for media organizations
Cory Doctorow will join Dennis Tenen, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, in a conversation about science fiction, the changing material conditions of contemporary authorship, copyright, and surveillance.
Journalist and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow will talk about the millennia-old social compact of the book, and the arbitrary renegotiation of that contract in the age of ebooks, where prior restraint, restrictions on lending, donation and gifting, and invasive, surveillant technologies have become the norm. He will investigate how technology and license agreements have
Beyond “I agree”: A democratic technology, without Big Tech. RSVP at brwn.co/cd-register. The techlash marks the end of complacency over Big Tech: in a single instant, states have gone from being completely blase about the risks of a monopolized digital world run by high-handed CEOs who answer only to their shareholders, to being certain that
Knowing Together is a workshop and exhibition about collaborative 3D photography and embodied experience hosted and supported by the 2018 Myers Fund at EdLab Teachers College in collaboration with visiting artist Rosalie Yu. The
