Washington Post Deputy Video Editor Phoebe Connelly joined Twitch’s Cody Conners to explain how the paper is using the live- streaming platform for news. Testing the concept of a “Post Twitch channel” with Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before Congress, the Post discovered that Twitch – typically frequented by video-gamers – provides an interesting space for analysis
Rethinking Tech, Ethics, and Democracy with MIT Tech Review’s Gideon Lichfield
In this conversation, Gideon Lichfield, Editor-in-Chief is the MIT Technology Review, explores issues raised in the Review’s fall issue: “Technology is threatening our democracy: How do we save it?” Lichfield also unpacks the Review’s new mission statement: “To bring about better informed and more conscious decisions about technology … we think it is no longer
Whither VR? Kate Parsons and Ben Vance
Video artist Kate Parsons and VR veteran Ben Vance talk about innovations in VR and their work with FLOAT, a collaborative entity that focuses on the intersection of art, interactivity, and virtual reality. Based in Los Angeles, Parsons and Vance work together to create evocative, nuanced art experiences. Their work has been shown nationally and
NYT & FiveThirtyEight Talk Election Polls at Brown
On October 12 & 13, the Brown Institute kicked off its 2018-2019 Transparency Series with a deep dive into polling and election polls. The event commenced with a seminar by Amanda Cox, editor of The Upshot at The New York Times. In response to polling results from the 2016 election combined with a lack of
To teach people about climate change, feed them journalism
We are pleased to initiate a new series of articles from the Brown Institute at the Columbia Journalism Review. Our first offering is about a dinner we hosted with the Aspen Institute and the Asia Society on climate change. There’s a story behind every ingredient that goes into our meals—each plant or animal we consume
Upcoming event on the Blockchain in Journalism
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 be applied to journalism. For practitioners in media, Blockchain is in vogue today as a potential solution to the industry’s every-day problems and tasks, such
J. Nathan Matias: Innovating in the Public Square
J. Nathan Matias, associate research scholar at Princeton University in psychology, the Center for Information Technology Policy, and sociology, also is the founder of CivilServant, a nonprofit that organizes citizen behavioral science and behavioral consumer protection research for the internet. In this talk, Matias discusses how CivilServant has worked with communities of tens of millions of people on Reddit and Twitter
Slack’s Ceci Stallsmith on “Tech Trends for Media”
Ceci Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing, says that spotting trends and frameworks are “calculated art, not science.” In 2012, three years before she joined Slack, it was just one of many messaging apps vying for a place in the sun. “Smartphones had become mainstream. It was the moment when business apps took off on iOS
Watch Beyond “I agree”: Cory Doctorow with Jad Abumrad
Beyond “I agree”: A democratic technology, without Big Tech A lecture and conversation with Jad Abumrad, host of WNYC’s Radiolab September 27, 2018 – 5:00-6:30pm The Lecture Hall in Pulitzer Hall The techlash marks the end of complacency over Big Tech: in a single instant, states have gone from being completely blase about the risks