We are pleased to announce The Award for Excellence in Computational Journalism co-sponsored by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism. It honors work
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Bushwig at PCA/ACA
Adam and Jessa from the Bushwig Magic Grant will present their work at the Pop Culture Association/American Culture Association National Meeting in Chicago this week. They will speak on identity curation, or rather,
A Second Hard Hat Dinner
Last night, the Institute hosted its second Hard Hat Dinner. We invited 19 media scholars, educators, journalists, entrepreneurs, and friends for the second in a series of events to celebrate
CityBeat: Real-time Social Media Visualization of Hyper-local City Data
Authors Xia C., Schwartz, R., Xie K., Krebs A., Langdon A., Ting J. and Naaman M. Abstract With the increasing volume of location-annotated content from various social media platforms like
Ethics of Data Conference Announced!
The recent influx of big data has surfaced a multitude of ethical questions centered around the use of digital data for social good. The first Ethics of DataConference, which will bring
CityBeat Demo
CityBeat, a social media mining news project, will be featured at the Hacks/Hackers NYC Demo Day on Monday, March 17. Raz Schwartz of Cornell Tech and Alyssa Katz of The New York
NICAR 2014
Networks, science, and shoe-leather reporting – The Brown Institute sent six students from Columbia’s Journalism School to this year’s edition of NICAR, an annual conference in computer-assisted reporting. This year’s conference was