Each year, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Johanna Drucker starts the series by looking at alternatives to representing time — looking beyond graphic standards such as
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Stephanie Hankey of Tactical Tech Speaks at Columbia
On October 10, 2019, Brown at Columbia hosted Stephanie Hankey for its inaugural 2019-2020 Distinguished Lecture in Computational Innovation. Stephanie Hankey is a designer, technologist, and social entrepreneur who has worked internationally at the intersection of technology and human rights for the past 20 years. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Tactical Tech,
Stanford Welcomes Neil Chase, CEO of CalMatters.org
How to Create a Culture of Innovation – especially in a legacy media company? That was the question Neil Chase, CEO of the nonprofit news site CalMatters.org, addressed at Stanford on October 1. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of The San Jose Mercury News, Chase spoke about the local newspaper as an essential utility whose various core functions have
A Science-Media Meetup
Last night, September 26, the Brown Institute hosted a group of journalism and science students for an evening of collaboration. We began with a panel led by Ros Donald, a PhD student at the Journalism School studying communication of climate change in Miami. Before beginning her PhD she was deputy editor of Carbon Brief, a
Announcing the 2019 Brown Institute Showcase
Mark Hansen and Maneesh Agrawala cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2019 Showcase! Join us for a reception and exhibition of our 2018-2019 projects. October 17, 2019 – 6:00pm at the Brown Institute at Columbia University Descriptions of the projects can be seen below. The event will take place in the
Thinking with Computation
“The purpose of computation is insight, not numbers.” Hamming, 1962. Fernando Perez, one of the creators of the Jupyter Notebook, began his talk at the Brown Institute Thursday with this quote from Richard Hamming’s book on algorithms. Fernando, or at least Jupyter, will be familiar to students in the Journalism School who have taken any
Final Transparency Series Event
As the semester starts to wind down, we have one remaining Transparency Series event — this one on Drone Photography. If you are interested, register at brwn.co/tx. Friday April 12, 5-6pm — Josh Haner from the New York Times. Josh Haner is a staff photographer and the senior editor for photo technology at the New York
Jeff Larson introduces The Markup
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
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.”