Blockchain in Journalism: Promise and Practice
The Brown Institute and the Tow Center have collaborated on an event for students, reporters, editors, scholars, and entrepreneurs about the current state of blockchain technology and how it can
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Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States
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Technology’s Role in Media, Data Journalism, and Fighting Fake News? A Session in the Fast Company Innovation Festival
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThe media industry has never been under more scrutiny than it is today. Technology, a primary culprit in the proliferation of fake news, can also be used to provide clarity
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Media Innovation Seminar: Technology is threatening our democracy. How do we save it? with Gideon Lichfield
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAGideon Lichfield is Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Technology Review. In this conversation, he will discuss issues at the intersection of technology, ethics and democracy.
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Opening Up Research for the Greater Good? Ethics, Privacy, and Data
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesIn the current political climate, opening up access to research and research data can be both a moral imperative and a careless decision that puts the lives and livelihood of
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Media Innovation Seminar: Twitch 4 News? with Phoebe Connelly and Joey Marburger
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAPhoebe Connelly, Deputy Video Editor, and Joey Marburger, Head of Product at The Washington Post, will discuss opportunities to use gaming platforms for the distribution of news, and take us
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2018-2019 Speaker Series: Google’s Simon Rogers
Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United StatesRSVP In the run-up to the midterm elections, Google’s data editor, Simon Rogers, will join the Brown Institute at Stanford for a conversation about his book “Facts are Sacred” as
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Media Innovation Seminar: On Algorithmic Bias with Jeff Larson
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CALarson, formerly a Senior Reporter for ProPublica and now co-founder of TBA, a new journalistic site that will report on how algorithms work and influence media. In his talk Larson
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Reproducible Data Journalism without Code
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesJoin Krishna Bharat, creator of Google News and Jonathan Stray, designer of Workbench to discuss reproducible data journalism without code. Reproducibility allows readers and journalists to see how you produced
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Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Eric Xing
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesAt 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
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Brown 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Data Visualization at The New York Times
Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United StatesNew York Times graphics editor Kevin Quealy will join the Brown Institute for Media innovation in conversation about innovations in data visualization and his work at The Upshot, the Times’s
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Free Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect”
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThis panel is the second in a series of events examining the role that the First Amendment should play in assessing the lawfulness of government surveillance. The first panel addressed
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Transparency Series Seminar: Voice Interfaces with Joseph Price of Washington Post and Tommy O’Keefe, Vincent Farquharson & Nara Kasbergen of NPR
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesVoice assistants are changing the way people search for and consume content. By one estimate, half of the adults in the US make use of voice interfaces — for now,
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Transparency Series Workshop: Voice Interfaces with Washington Post & NPR
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesAuthoring experiences for a voice assistant or smart speaker is a combination of several distinct skillsets. Some conversational interfaces are driven by keywords, depending on users stating specific terms, while
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Media Innovation Seminar: Innovations in Computational Photography with Josh Haner
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAJosh Haner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and Senior Editor for Photo Technology at The New York Times. In this talk Josh will discuss the latest innovations in computational photography,
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Transparency Series Seminar: Reporting on Devices with Surya Mattu
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesMore than ever, objects in our homes and on our person are connected, sharing data about our lived experience with companies and with the public. How do we measure what
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Media Innovation Seminar: Rethinking Audio with Matt Stuart and Micah Collins
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAMatt Stuart is Head of Google Home Product Planning and launch for the Google Home product group (Google Home,Home Mini, and Home Max, as well as Chromecast and Google Wifi).
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Knowing Together – Exhibition
Offit Gallery | Teachers College 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 3th floor, New York City, NY, United StatesKnowing Together is a project exploring the dimensions of intimacy through 3D scanning. The exhibition was born out of a workshop and commissioned by the 2018 Myers Fund at EdLab Teachers College
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Transparency Series Workshop: Reporting on Devices with Consumer Reports
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesMost consumer advocacy is based on a definition of consumer rights anchored on two things: value and safety. While these issues are perennial concerns for consumers, they don’t capture the
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2018-2019 SPEAKER SERIES: FELICE FRANKEL
Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United StatesSCIENCE PHOTOGRAPHER & MIT RESEARCH SCIENTIST On January 30, the Brown Institute welcomes celebrated science photographer and MIT Research Scientist Felice Frankel. She will offer a masterclass on "Image and
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Mapping Module 1 – Introduction to Mapping
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesNews unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of