Jeff Larson, Managing Editor of The Markup, explains how this new nonprofit news start-up plans to investigate how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society. “Whether that is reshaping the news we get and what we believe; how elections play out; our jobs and how we get them; how we
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The NYT’s Kevin Quealy on Innovating with Data & Graphics
Kevin Quealy discusses how The New York Times thinks about data visualization and graphics. Quealy is the Deputy Editor at The Upshot, the Times’s site on politics, economics, and everyday life. The goal of The Upshot, he says, is to use data and graphics effectively and “turn readers into experts.”
Twitch 4 News? The Washington Post’s Phoebe Connelly tells us more
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
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
Public records under threat
On April 13, members of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Brown Institute of Media Innovation at Stanford coordinated an event to discuss the threats to public records in an age of digital distribution. With an audience of eighty, panels comprised of journalists, technologists, librarians and engineers identified the biggest challenges in this
Photograpy, Expanded: Counter Histories
Over the past two days, the Brown Institute in New York played host to Photography Expanded: Counter Histories. The program provided sixteen photographers, artists and media professionals imaginative ways to respond creatively to existing images, bringing layers of story into our lived experiences and environments. The program also explored strategies to circumvent or challenge static