Knowing Together – Seminar
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
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The Smith Learning Theater | Teachers College 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 4th floor, New York City, NY, United States
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Media Innovation Seminar: How to build a Culture of Innovation in Media with Matter’s Corey Ford
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CACorey 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 to build a culture of innovation.
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A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room 74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY, United StatesCory 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.
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Huxleyed into the Full Orwell: How Digital Copyright Abuse Has Abetted a Culture of Mass Surveillance and Social Control
Butler Library 523 535 West 114th, New York, NY, United StatesJournalist 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
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Cory Doctorow with Jad Abumrad
Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesBeyond “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
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Knowing Together – Workshop
The Smith Learning Theater | Teachers College 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 4th floor, New York City, NY, United StatesKnowing 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
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Photography in Collaboration: Migration and Religion
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesMagnum Foundation is producing a project development laboratory with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation on September 28 and 29, 2018 that will bring together twelve photographers and their collaborators
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Media Innovation Seminar: Frameworks for Predicting the Next Tech Trends in Media with Slack’s Ceci Stallsmith
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAIndustry-shifting opportunities come along about every five-to-ten years. In this conversation with Stanford's Brown Institute, Slack's Head of Platform Ceci Stallsmith, outlines ways to detect platform shifts before it's too late to jump on a trend.
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2018 Brown Institute Showcase
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAManeesh Agrawala and Mark Hansen cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2018 Showcase! Join us for a reception and exhibition of our 2017-2018 projects. October 5, 2018 - 5:00pm at the Brown Institute at Stanford University Descriptions of the projects can be seen below. The event will take place on the
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Media Innovation Seminar: Innovating in the Public Square with J. Nathan Matias
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAIn this talk, Princeton's J. Nathan Matias will discuss how to protect media environments and draw parallels between history of our current moment and the history of environmental protection and
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Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Lorena Barba
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 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. This
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d.school Pop Up: reDesigning Local Media
Hasso Plattner School of Design 475 Via Ortega, Stanford, CA, United StatesIn this three-session workshop, we will explore the intersection of media and design through both a publishing and technology product design lens. Teams will work in partnership with local media
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Transparency Series Seminar: Polling with Amanda Cox
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesJoin us for a discussion with Amanda Cox from the Upshot at the New York Times who will discuss polling and its importance in the political races. As the 2018 midterm election nears, we pore over opinion polls looking for subtle (or not so subtle) clues about how things will fare on November 6. When
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Transparency Series Workshop: Polling with FiveThirtyEight
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThe first workshop in the Transparency Series takes you through techniques for looking at one or more polls over time. Join Janie Velencia and Dhrumil Mehta who lead Pollapalooza at FiveThirtyEight to get exposed to sources, tools, and strategies for working with polls — starting at the very beginning with simple random samples, and leading
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Media Innovation Seminar: Whither VR? with Kate Parsons and Ben Vance
Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CAVideo artist and educator Kate Parsons and VR Veteran Ben Vance explore art and design through emerging technology at FLOAT, a collaborative entity focusing on the intersection of art and interactivity. They will share tips on how their team creates evocative, nuanced art experiences using cutting-edge VR technology.
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Blockchain in Journalism: Promise and Practice
Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United StatesThe 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 be applied to journalism. For practitioners in media, Blockchain is in vogue today as a potential solution to the industry’s every-day problems and tasks, such
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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 for the public. And we’ve started to witness the democratization of large-scale data analysis and connected data methods that provide journalists the opportunity to employ
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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 the most vulnerable at risk. In this panel discussion and roundtable, three scholars will discuss the social and ethical responsibilities of gathering, curating, and sharing
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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 inside the Post's new Twitch channel.