Skip to content
Brown Institute

Brown Institute



Search
  • News
  • About
    • Contact Us
    • Press
    • Affiliate Projects
      • UNFPA 2023 Media Analysis
      • Visualizing Virality
      • Mapping Data Flows
      • NewsCounts Tour across the US
      • Grades of Heat
      • Fashion Watch
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Posters
  • People
    • Alumni
    • Grantees
    • Fellows
    • Leadership
    • Entrepreneurs in Residence
    • Board of Advisors
    • Faculty Affiliates
  • Grants
    • Impact Grants
    • Magic Grants
      • 2024-2025
      • 2023-2024
      • 2022-2023
      • 2021-2022
      • 2020-2021
      • 2019-2020
      • 2018-2019
      • 2017-2018
      • 2016-2017
      • 2015-2016
      • 2014-2015
      • 2013-2014
      • 2012-2013
  • Propose
    • 2025 Marco Castro Cosio Media/Technology Fellowship
    • 2024 Call for Proposals
    • 2024 Innovation Challenge
    • Magic Grant Benefits and Expectations
    • Magic Grant Eligibility for Funding
    • Magic Grant Frequently Asked Questions
  • Local

Superpredartor article cover Read More
By : mkrisch November 20, 2020December 2, 2020

Superpredator: The Media Myth That Demonized a Generation of Black Youth

Our 2020-21 Magic Grant Wolf Pack has published its first piece — a deep dive into the invention of the term “superpredator”. The team “found nearly 300 uses of ‘superpredator’

Read More
Read More
By : mkrisch November 20, 2020

‘Sylvia’ Premiering at IDFA DocLab

Have you ever known an aging robot? Meet Sylvia, the first aging virtual influencer. Premiering on November 20, 2020 at the International Documentary FilmFestival Amsterdam (IDFA), attendee’s can look back on

Read More
AR For Everyone Read More
By : mkrisch November 18, 2020

Introducing ‘AR for Everyone!’: A Journalism 360 Project

The Brown Institute is excited to announce that our team members Ziv Schneider and Juan Francisco Saldarriaga have been selected as some of the winners of the 2020 Journalism 360 Challenge.

Read More
changingcourse Read More
By : mkrisch October 31, 2020January 22, 2021

‘Changing Course’: Lectures on Data Representations and Equitable Approaches to Computing

Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about

Read More
Read More
By : mkrisch October 23, 2020November 20, 2020

Magic Grant projects ‘Public Analysis of TV News’ and ‘Sports Illustrated’ featured on Bloomberg QuickTake

On October 21, 2020, Ashlee Vance, Senior Writer at Bloomberg Businessweek interviewed Stanford Professor Kayvon Fatahalian and highlighted advancements in artificial intelligence through Magic Grant projects Public Analysis of TV

Read More
Maternal Figures Reporting Grants Read More
By : mkrisch October 21, 2020

Introducing Reporting Grants from Maternal Figures

Led by Ashley Okwuosa and Chuma Asuzu, Maternal Figures is a solutions journalism project aiming to encourage journalists to investigate solutions to an endemic problem. The project focuses on Nigeria’s maternal

Read More
deep-fake-header Read More
By : mkrisch October 13, 2020October 13, 2020

Institute Director Agrawala talks Deep Fakes with the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI

To spot a deep fake, researchers looked for inconsistencies between “visemes,” or mouth formations, and “phonemes,” the phonetic sounds. Using AI to Detect Seemingly Perfect Deep-Fake Videos was published on

Read More
Sylvia VI Read More
By : mkrisch August 28, 2020September 27, 2020

Meet ‘Sylvia’: A Project Challenging Ageism in Digital Space

Ziv Schneider is a creative technologist at The Brown Institute for Media Innovation based at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Schneider is breaking barriers in the sphere of Virtual Influencers.

Read More
Read More
By : mkrisch August 26, 2020August 27, 2020

Join us to celebrate the launch of ‘Maternal Figures’ on September 3

The Brown Institute is excited to announce the launch of Maternal Figures on September 3 at 10AM ET. We invite you to join project leads Ashley Okwuosa and Chuma Asuzu

Read More

Page navigation

Prev
  • 1
  • …
  • 12
  • 13
  • 14
  • 15
  • 16
  • …
  • 53
Next
  • All Stories473
  • Audio/Video24
  • Featured5
  • Grants & Fellowships7
  • In the News74
  • Local News Lab2
  • News261
  • Project Updates91
  • Recaps115
  • Research25

Follow us on Twitter or Facebook

Subscribe to our Event RSS Feed

Sign-up for our Newsletter

Watch our videos on YouTube

All work published on this site is by The Brown Institute for Media Innovation and is licensed under CC BY 4.0







This website uses cookies as well as similar tools and technologies to understand visitors' experiences. We are adhering to the Privacy Policies as defined by Columbia University and Stanford University. You can decline cookies by adjusting your browser settings but some features of the websites may not function.Ok