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October 2018
Technology’s Role in Media, Data Journalism, and Fighting Fake News? A Session in the Fast Company Innovation Festival
The media industry has never been under more scrutiny than it is today. Technology, a primary culprit in the proliferation of fake news, can also be used to provide clarity for the public. And we’ve started to witness the democratization of large-scale data analysis and connected data methods that provide journalists the opportunity to employ new technologies to check their facts. Join this in-depth talk with Columbia Journalism School, New York University, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), and…
Find out more »Media Innovation Seminar: Technology is threatening our democracy. How do we save it? with Gideon Lichfield
Gideon Lichfield is Editor-in-Chief of the MIT Technology Review. In this conversation, he will discuss issues at the intersection of technology, ethics and democracy.
Find out more »Opening Up Research for the Greater Good? Ethics, Privacy, and Data
In the current political climate, opening up access to research and research data can be both a moral imperative and a careless decision that puts the lives and livelihood of the most vulnerable at risk. In this panel discussion and roundtable, three scholars will discuss the social and ethical responsibilities of gathering, curating, and sharing data from very different perspectives. Presentation descriptions below. Register Here Manan Ahmed, "Torn Apart/Separados: Visualizing Data for/with Critical Eyes" My talk will center on the…
Find out more »Media Innovation Seminar: Twitch 4 News? with Phoebe Connelly and Joey Marburger
Phoebe Connelly, Deputy Video Editor, and Joey Marburger, Head of Product at The Washington Post, will discuss opportunities to use gaming platforms for the distribution of news, and take us inside the Post's new Twitch channel.
Find out more »2018-2019 Speaker Series: Google’s Simon Rogers
RSVP In the run-up to the midterm elections, Google’s data editor, Simon Rogers, will join the Brown Institute at Stanford for a conversation about his book “Facts are Sacred” as well as his work with Electionland, which brings together teams of data journalists, fact-checkers and social media experts to monitor polls in real-time.
Find out more »November 2018
Media Innovation Seminar: On Algorithmic Bias with Jeff Larson
Larson, formerly a Senior Reporter for ProPublica and now co-founder of TBA, a new journalistic site that will report on how algorithms work and influence media. In his talk Larson will discuss the formation of his new venture and explain what innovations are needed when it comes to understanding how algorithms work and influence the information we receive.
Find out more »Reproducible Data Journalism without Code
Join Krishna Bharat, creator of Google News and Jonathan Stray, designer of Workbench to discuss reproducible data journalism without code. Reproducibility allows readers and journalists to see how you produced your data-driven story, and colleagues to learn from your work. But until now, reproducibility has required programming. Workbench is a new platform for data journalism that combines scraping, cleanup, analysis, and visualization in one app, without any coding required. In this hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to use Workbench to…
Find out more »Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Eric Xing
At 4:00 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in the Brown Institute for Media Innovation (2nd Floor, Pulitzer Hall), the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series will highlight programmers, data scientists, and other practitioners from the private sector who lead cutting-edge technology initiatives such as Python, C++, and the Open Source Initiative. This lecture features Dr. Eric Xing, Professor, Department of Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University; Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Scientist, Petuum, Inc. The event will…
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