The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the School of Engineering at Stanford University and the Graduate School for Journalism at Columbia University invites you to apply for the inaugural Media Innovation Base Camp on January 16-18, 2015 at Stanford University. The Base Camp is a great starting point for students who plan to apply
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Computation+Journalism Symposium Schedule Announced
The 3rd Computation+Journalism meeting had 45 submissions, from which we culled a number of invited talks, demos and papers. Additionally, we’ve curated several panels and a keynote speaker. The full schedule is listed here.Registration is now open, and the event is free for students. We hope to see you October 24 and 25!
David Cohn to speak on Object-Orientated Journalism
Join us for Brown^2 Bag Lunch Speaker Series at Stanford Object-Oriented Journalism: Case Circa by David Cohn, Founding Editor & Chief Content Officer, Circa Friday, November 7th, 2014, 12pm (noon), Y2E2 101, Stanford University Object-oriented journalism atomizes the content into pieces, which can be re-used and circulated in several contexts. David Cohn tells how Circa, one of the best-known journalism start-ups, applies object-oriented journalism
Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things
This weekend the Brown Institute hosted Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things, an experiment, led by the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia, in new forms and functions of storytelling. Roughly 25 storytellers, game developers, makers, creative technologists, experience designers and journalists participated in a special one day story lab. An experiment in co-authorship – Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things invited 25 participants to
Latour week at Columbia
Last night, Prof. Latour spoke to an audience of 500 people on his recent work is on climate change, on global ecological crisis. You can see a video of the event here. Next up, his project “Gaia Global Circus” will be presented at The Kitchen in Chelsea. To help understand the disconnect between the scale of the problems we
Gaia Global Circus concludes Latour Week
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evening, Compagnie AccenT and Soif Compagnie presented Gaia Global Circus at The Kitchen in Chelsea, followed by Q&A sessions with the troupe and Prof. Latour. On Friday, following the presentations, New York Times contributor Laura Collins-Hughes reviewed the show, which can be read at nyti.ms/nyt-gaia. Through Gaia Global Circus, Latour
The 2014 Computation + Journalism Symposium
Computation+Journalism is a forum for discussing the ways journalism is and should be adapting in the face of the quantitative turn in society. We invite the participation of a broad range of thinkers, doers, and storytellers to this interdisciplinary meeting, a hybridization of journalism and the computing and data sciences. We want to hear from
By Design
Eight 2014-15 Magic Grant award winners joined teams from the Class of 2013-14 at Stanford on June 9 and 10 for the Brown Institute’s quarterly all-hands meeting. The teams introduced themselves, their projects, and engaged in a half-day Design Thinking workshop. The session was facilitated by Umbreen Bhatti, a 2013-14 John S. Knight Fellow
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 the construction of our new space. The evening started with a tour of the Brown construction site which has changed considerably since our first event