Since its founding in 2012, the Stanford side of Brown manifested in whichever staff or faculty office or conference room we could grab at the time. As of this academic year, however, we have a home, our own little corner of the Gates Computer Science Building. The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford officially
Join us for Base Camp 2018!
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation invites you to apply to the Media Innovation Base Camp taking place on March 3-4, 2018 at Stanford University. The Media Innovation Base Camp offers a great starting point for entrepreneurial students who want to explore the interplay between story and technology. All travel and lodging expenses will be
Podcast Icon Dan Carlin visits Brown at Stanford
The first speaker in Media Innovators Speakers series at Stanford University for the 2017-2018 Academic Year, Dan Carlin, is widely known for his long time, highly popular podcasts, Hardcore History and Common Sense. In his visit to the Brown Institute at Stanford on October 11, 2017, he also shared with the audience how he went from being a local
Dark Inquiry Launches Bail Bloc Project
The Brown Institute announces the launch of the latest project from the Dark Inquiry Magic Grant team. Bail Bloc starts with the premise that cash bail streamlines mass incarceration by preventing low-income, usually people of color, from exercising their right to a fair trial. The team writes that “prosecutors and judges work in concert to coerce low-income people
CS 581: Bringing Media Innovators to Stanford
The newly-opened space at Stanford is allowing new programming on the campus, expanding the reach and portfolio of Brown West. One of these new endeavors in the fall term is the offering of our first course, CS581, a seminar series which has featured several diverse speakers at the forefront of Media Innovation. Click on the
Points Unknown Hits the Classroom
The Brown Institute, Center for Spatial Research, and faculty from the Journalism School are delighted to announce the launch of Points Unknown, a training module and course designed to teach journalists and architects how to use spatial data to tell stories. The first portion of Points Unknown is a 5-week module for students of the
Alumnus Marcelle Hopkins in the New York Times
Check out Pioneering Virtual Reality and New Video Technologies in Journalism, an article which appeared in the 18 October 2017 New York Times, authored by former Brown Magic Grantee, Marcelle Hopkins.
Measure for Measure at The Public Theater
Elevator Repair Service, the Obie-winning company behind Gatz — “the most remarkable achievement in theater of this decade” (The New York Times) — returns to The Public to celebrate their 25th season with a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE. With athletic theatricality and Marx-Brothers-inspired slapstick, the ERS ensemble brings exciting new life to this story of impossible moral choices in
Watch ‘Experiencing Racism in VR’ at TEDxRVA
Psychologist Courtney D. Cogburn focuses her work on how racism contributes to racial inequalities in health. With support from a Magic Grant through the Brown Institute, Courtney and a team of researchers at Columbia and Stanford University have been using virtual reality to help people experience the complexities of racism to not only encourage them