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
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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
Podcast Icon Dan Carlin visits Brown at Stanford
The first speaker in Media Innovators Speakers series at Stanford University for the 2017-2018 Academic Year, Dan Carlin, is widely known for his long time, highly popular podcasts, Hardcore History and Common Sense. In his visit to the Brown Institute at Stanford on October 11, 2017, he also shared with the audience how he went from being a local
CS 581: Bringing Media Innovators to Stanford
The newly-opened space at Stanford is allowing new programming on the campus, expanding the reach and portfolio of Brown West. One of these new endeavors in the fall term is the offering of our first course, CS581, a seminar series which has featured several diverse speakers at the forefront of Media Innovation. Click on the
Points Unknown Hits the Classroom
The Brown Institute, Center for Spatial Research, and faculty from the Journalism School are delighted to announce the launch of Points Unknown, a training module and course designed to teach journalists and architects how to use spatial data to tell stories. The first portion of Points Unknown is a 5-week module for students of the
Measure for Measure at The Public Theater
Elevator Repair Service, the Obie-winning company behind Gatz — “the most remarkable achievement in theater of this decade” (The New York Times) — returns to The Public to celebrate their 25th season with a dynamic new production of Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE. With athletic theatricality and Marx-Brothers-inspired slapstick, the ERS ensemble brings exciting new life to this story of impossible moral choices in
Brown & Tow Mixer
On September 6, we hosted a mixer introducing new Journalism School students to both to the Brown Institute at Columbia as well as the Tow Center for Digtital Journalism. The room was, gratifyingly, packed! For those of you who couldn’t attend, Brown offers unique training events like the Transparency Series— where you will learn journalistic uses
Sneakercon, a forum to reexamine offline networks – Aug 25/26
The Internet has grown so omnipresent today that it’s easy to overlook the continuing role of “offline networks,” systems for exchanging digital information that bypass the Internet. “Sneakernets” (by which we mean any kind of offline networking, a slight abuse of the terminology) take many forms, whether it’s a thumb drive passed between friends or a
“This is not a game:” Jane McGonigal visits Brown at Stanford
Game developer Jane McGonigal joined Brown Institute Stanford Director Maneesh Agrawala on May 23 for a conversation about critical topics in game theory and culture entitled “This is Not a Game.” The two discussed how new forms of media – online gaming and augmented realities – influence our personal wellness, political views and collective behaviors.