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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 States

The 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

Opening Up Research for the Greater Good? Ethics, Privacy, and Data

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

In 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

Media Innovation Seminar: Twitch 4 News? with Phoebe Connelly and Joey Marburger

Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

Phoebe 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.

2018-2019 Speaker Series: Google’s Simon Rogers

Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

RSVP 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 well as his work with Electionland, which brings together teams of data journalists, fact-checkers and social media experts to monitor polls in real-time.

Media Innovation Seminar: On Algorithmic Bias with Jeff Larson

Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

Larson, 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 will discuss the formation of his new venture and explain what innovations are needed when it comes to understanding how algorithms work and influence the

Reproducible Data Journalism without Code

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Join 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 your data-driven story, and colleagues to learn from your work. But until now, reproducibility has required programming. Workbench is a new platform for data journalism

Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Eric Xing

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

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. This

Brown 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Data Visualization at The New York Times

Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

New 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 site about politics, economics, and everyday life.   RSVP is requested but not required.

Free Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect”

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

This 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 legal doctrine and the skepticism with which courts view the claim that surveillance “chills” free speech. This second panel will assess the chilling effect. Does

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 States

Voice 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, mostly on their smartphones. But with the steady improvement of voice recognition, smart speakers like Amazon’s Echo, Google Home, Apple’s HomePod constitute new platforms for

Transparency Series Workshop: Voice Interfaces with Washington Post & NPR

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Authoring 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 others involve artificial intelligence to create more natural conversations around content. The content itself is a product of both editorial work as well as programming

Transparency Series Seminar: Reporting on Devices with Surya Mattu

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

More 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 our devices collect about us, and more importantly, what they share? Join us for a conversation with Surya Mattu, an artist, engineer and journalist who

Media Innovation Seminar: Rethinking Audio with Matt Stuart and Micah Collins

Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

Matt 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). Micah Collins is Director of Product Management at Google, overseeing software and hardware teams including Chromecast, Chromecast Audio, Chromecast Ultra, Google Home, GoogleHome Mini, Google

Knowing Together – Exhibition

Offit Gallery | Teachers College 525 West 120th Street Russell Hall 3th floor, New York City, NY, United States

Knowing 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 in collaboration with the Brown Institute' Creative Technologist Rosalie Yu. The exhibition opens December 6, 2018 and will be on display for six weeks. Details about the

Transparency Series Workshop: Reporting on Devices with Consumer Reports

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Most 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 larger threats posed by the 21st C marketplace: reductions in individual agency and control. Amazon, Google, Facebook, and the other corporate powers offer products that

2018-2019 SPEAKER SERIES: FELICE FRANKEL

Cypress Auditorium, Allen Extension 420 Via Palou Mall, Stanford, CA, United States

SCIENCE 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 Meaning" and discuss her new book "Picturing Science and Engineering" (MIT Press) in which she offers a guide for creating science images that are both

Mapping Module 1 – Introduction to Mapping

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

News 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 the history leading to its current configurations. With the popularization of cartography, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a map, yet

Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Yi-Min Chee

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Blockchain: A Solutions Perspective Yi-Min Chee Senior Technical Staff Member and Chief Architect, IBM Food Trust Blockchain Solution Abstract. Blockchain technology has moved beyond the realm of cryptocurrencies to start to address business problems for enterprises of all sizes. In this talk, Yi-Min Chee will give an overview of blockchain and the different types of blockchain networks