Brown will be presenting at the Columbia Scholastic Press Association meeting 2:30-3:15 Thursday March 20 and 9:45-10:30 Friday March 21. CSPA is an international student press association, founded in 1925, whose goal is to unite student journalists and faculty advisers at schools and colleges through educational conferences, idea exchanges, textbooks, critiques and award programs. Brown will show examples
News
CityBeat Demo
CityBeat, a social media mining news project, will be featured at the Hacks/Hackers NYC Demo Day on Monday, March 17. Raz Schwartz of Cornell Tech and Alyssa Katz of The New York World will share their project-in-progress with New York City’s community of news developers and innovators. Participants get 5 minutes to present a news-oriented project, and 5
NICAR 2014
Networks, science, and shoe-leather reporting – The Brown Institute sent six students from Columbia’s Journalism School to this year’s edition of NICAR, an annual conference in computer-assisted reporting. This year’s conference was the biggest to date, with over 1,000 attendees. Read their individual reflectionson anything from mapping and analyzing a network to retrieving that precious data or how
Left brain, right brain
Ellen Weinstein and the New York Public Library Labs recall their process for “bit by bit” in this lovely blog post. Here’s a taste: Although I use paper and pixels in my own work, I am very much a front-end user. I consider it a victory every time I login to a website and remember
CJR Article on ‘Bit by Bit’
From the Columbia Journalism Review (read the full article.) On Friday, Ellen Weinstein, an award-winning illustrator based in New York, found herself in unusual company. She was in one of the reading rooms at the New York Public Library, working with the members of NYPL Labs, who are trying to “re-imagine the library for the
Queer Internet Studies Workshop
Jessa Lingel of the Bushwig Magic Grant Team is organizing a Workshop on Queer Internet Studies. She writes “Thanks to the awesome support of the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and Just Publics 365, I’m working with Jack Gieseking to organize a one-day series of conversations, presentations and art-making. As we gear up for April 4, we thought we’d spell
Documenting a day, bit by bit
A couple images from this weekend’s “bit by bit”. We weren’t quite prepared for what would happen. I suppose in retrospect, given the amazingly talented professionals we’d managed to recruit, we should have expected something magical. The afternoon was pure joy. Collaboration is not always easy, not always smooth. But each team told their story
A hard hat dinner
Last night, the Institute hosted a Hard Hat Dinner. We invited 14 artists, architects, journalists, entrepreneurs, and friends for a special event to celebrate the construction of our new space. The evening started with a tour of the Brown construction site which, as you can see, is taking shape! Then, becauase OSHA takes a very
bit by bit – March 1, 1-5pm, Pulitzer Hall
“bit by bit” is an event that joins seven renowned storytellers with seven prominent technologists in teams of two and challenges them to make something new together, mixing word and code, novel and database, algorithm and theater. And for the first time, they unveil their creations at a public conference on March 1. Learn more about