The “Charleston Reconstructed” team is in Charleston interviewing community members and mapping Confederate monuments through photogrammetry with a drone. The team consists of Columbia Documentary Journalism student Robert Tokanel, Stanford Computer Scientist Kyle Qian, and Stanford undergraduates Khoi Le and Hope Schroeder. The team is looking to “digitally transform public spaces” in Charleston using augmented
Announcing the 2018 Brown Institute Showcase
Maneesh Agrawala and Mark Hansen cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2018 Showcase! Join us for a reception and exhibition of our 2017-2018 projects. October 5, 2018 – 5:00pm at the Brown Institute at Stanford University Descriptions of the projects can be seen below. The event will take place on the lawn adjacent
Knowing Together
Knowing Together is a workshop and exhibition on collaborative 3D photography and embodied experience hosted and supported by the 2018 Myers Fund at EdLab Teachers College in collaboration with the Brown Institute’s Creative Technologist Rosalie Yu. Seminar September 19, 2018 – 12:00-1:30pm The Smith Learning Theater | Teachers College Register at knowing-together.rosalieyu.com Yu uses 3D capturing techniques to explore the
We have a winner! The Brown/UN-DESA Collaboration Contest
In June, the Brown Institute and the UN-DESA’s Statistics Division announced a call for projects pairing journalistic outlets and official statistics offices to better inform the public. In some ways, it was our approach to combatting misinformation — figure out ways to provide “facts where opinions are formed,” to quote the OECD. We had an
An Introduction to Public Data
On September 6, from 9am-5pm, the Brown Institute is proud to host a day devoted to public data. It is designed for students in journalism, statistics and data science — essentially anyone who has an interest in understanding their neighborhoods, their cities, their state and even the nation through data. Throughout the day, students will
Canners NYC Launches on Gothamist, WNYC
The Brown Institute is proud to announce the launch of the project Canners NYC, an immersive multimedia experience in the world of canners, people who pick up cans and bottles on the streets. Journalist Francesca Berardi spent a year conducting oral history interviews, tracking paths, collecting data, making drawings and occasionally picking cans, in order
Brown and the UN-DESA Stat Division launch Data Storytelling CfP
The Columbia Journalism School’s Brown Institute for Media Innovation in collaboration with UN-DESA’s Statistics Division is pleased to announce a call for project proposals on data storytelling, aimed at nurturing new collaborations between national statistics systems (NSSs), including national statistical offices (NSOs), and journalism outlets. Proposals are due 20 July 2018, and winners will be
All-city journalism class receives press
In Spring of 2018, Brown Institute Director Mark Hansen co-designed and co-taught an all-city class focused on defending journalism and democracy. The class, Tech, Media & Democracy had representation from six New York City-based universities, including Cornell Tech, City University of New York, New York University, The New School, and The Pratt Institute, and Columbia Journalism School
DataShare, Explained
Reporting and breaking the Panama Papers and Paradise Papers investigations required a centralized platform that made it possible for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ to collaborate while exploring tens of millions of files. As successful as these probes proved, the platform failed to make a searchable database that connected data stored in individual reporters’ computers. Supported by a 2017-18 Magic Grant