In 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 food safety, pointing out the key role of citizen science.
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
In 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 organizations to innovate across the digital divide.
Join 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
The 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
Video 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
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
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
Gideon 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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Josh 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, including the use of drones.
