Tonight’s the night! We have our second Transparency Series event, this time on Voice User Interfaces (VUIs). VUIs also go by the more familiar names “personal assistants” or “smart speakers” — Think Siri, Alexa, Cortana or Google Assistant. This should be an exciting event! Voice platforms are still young enough that journalists can have a
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‘Hacking Voter Suppression’ Project Begins
For the 2018-19 Magic Grant Season, the Brown Institute at Columbia is funding Hacking Voter Suppression, a project by Columbia Journalism School Professor June Cross and Charlotte Braithwaite, a Theater Director and Assistant Professor of Music and Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The project seeks to explore how foreign interference, gerrymandering, 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
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
Office Hours announced for CJS Students
The Brown Institute is pleased to announce appointment-based office hours for students needing help in all things digital. This includes (but is not limited to) students seeking assistance with data, data visualization, mapping, augmented reality, virtual reality, 360-degree video and the Adobe Creative Suite. Please book office hours at brwn.co/office-hours or by using the tool
Bjarne Stroustrup kicks off Distinguished Lecture Series
C++ is one of the key foundations of our software. It is invisible to most people because they use it only indirectly. It’s in your computer and your phone. It’s in the machines that manufacture, your computer, and your phone. It’s in most cars, including all the self-driving ones. It’s on Mars, and in deep
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
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