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SUMMARY:Book Launch of Habeas Data by tech reporter Cyrus Farivar in conversation with Alex Abdo\, Knight First Amendment Institute
DESCRIPTION:Join award-winning tech reporter Cyrus Farivar for a book launch of Habeas Data: Privacy vs. the Rise of Surveillance Tech. Farivar will be joined by Alex Abdo\, Litigation Director for the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University\, who will respond to the book and moderate conversation on the topic of data and privacy. \nYou are being watched. Whether through your phone or your car or your credit card\, caught on a CCTV camera or tracked through your online viewing history\, government agencies know where you are\, and are quietly collecting your most intimate\, mundane\, and personal information. Is this even legal? Habeas Data shows how the explosive growth of surveillance technology has outpaced our understanding of the ethics\, mores\, and laws of privacy. \nFarivar makes the case by taking ten historic court decisions that defined our privacy rights and matching them against the capabilities of modern technology. It’s an approach that combines the charge of a legal thriller with the shock of the daily headlines. \nA dazzling exposé that journeys from Oakland\, California to the halls of the Supreme Court to the back of a squad car\, Habeas Data combines deft reportage\, deep research\, and original interviews to offer an X-ray diagnostic of our current surveillance state. \n\nAbout Cyrus Farivar \nCyrus Farivar is an investigative tech reporter at NBC News in San Francisco. In addition to being a radio producer and author\, Cyrus was most recently a senior tech policy reporter at Ars Technica. He was also previously the sci-tech editor and host of “Spectrum” at Deutsche Welle English\, Germany’s international broadcaster\, from 2010-2012. \nCyrus is the author of multiple books\, including Habeas Data (2018) and The Internet of Elsewhere (2011). Praised by The New Yorker\, among others\, Habeas Data takes a look at legal cases that have had an outsized impact on surveillance law in America. His first book focuses on the history and effects of the Internet on different countries around the world. \nHe received his B.A. in Political Economy from the University of California\, Berkeley and his M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. \nAbout Alex Abdo \nAlex Abdo is the litigation director at the Knight First Amendment Institute. Prior to joining the Institute\, he was a senior staff attorney at the ACLU. He has been at the forefront of litigation relating to NSA surveillance\, encryption\, anonymous speech online\, government transparency\, and the post-9/11 abuse of detainees in U.S. custody. In 2015\, he argued the closely watched appeal that resulted in the Second Circuit invalidating the NSA’s call-records program. \nAbdo graduated from Yale College and Harvard Law School. After law school\, Alex clerked for the Hon. Barbara M.G. Lynn\, United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas\, and for the Hon. Rosemary Barkett\, United States Circuit Judge for the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/habeas-data/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190306T170000
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SUMMARY:Measuring Crime: Behind the Statistics
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In 1915\, the Chicago City Council asked statistician Edith Abbott to report “upon the frequency of murder\, assault\, burglary\, robbery\, theft and like crimes in Chicago.” Her report\, drawing on published and unpublished statistics from the courts\, probation office\, house of correction\, and police department\, set the stage for subsequent collections and evaluations of crime statistics. Her conclusions—that statistics’ quality depend on the systems of data collection and that multiple sources of data are needed to study crime—hold today. \nDrawing on Abbott’s insights\, I set out eight questions to ask about a statistic before you rely on it. I then go through these questions for three sources of statistics about sexual assault: the Uniform Crime Reports\, the National Crime Victimization Survey\, and the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. \nBio: Sharon Lohr is a vice president and senior statistician at Westat in Rockville\, Maryland. Previously\, she was dean’s distinguished professor of statistics at Arizona State University. Her research has focused on survey sampling\, hierarchical models\, small-area estimation\, missing data\, and design of experiments. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She was the inaugural recipient of the Washington Statistical Society’s Gertrude M. Cox Statistics Award for contributions to the practice of statistics and a recipient of the society’s Morris Hansen Lecture Award. She was recently selected to present the Deming Lecture at the Joint Statistical Meetings. She has a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/measuring-crime-behind-the-statistics/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190227T183000
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SUMMARY:Queer & "Here"
DESCRIPTION:Queer & “Here”\nFrom hookup apps to investigative reporting\, community-building to historical archiving\, the Internet has transformed queer experience and visibility. What have these changes wrought? What gains? What losses? \nIn a free-wheeling and frank conversation\, Zach Stafford\, editor-in-chief of the U.S.’s oldest LGBTQ news magazine\, The Advocate\, and Jack Halberstam\, queer scholar and professor of English and Gender Studies at Columbia University\, will consider the roles the digital realm has played in queer communities\, how it has made space for queer narratives traditionally devalued in mainstream media\, and ways it has reshaped the very meanings of genders and sexualities – even as it has delivered sexual minorities to marketers and exposed vulnerable queer people to aggression. \nThe conversation introduces Queer Disruptions 3\, an international conference celebrating GLQ‘s 25th anniversary and looking back on the seminal conference Black Nations/Queer Nations from 1995. \nRegister at Eventbrite \n  \n\n  \nSpeakers: \nJack Halberstam\, a professor of gender studies and English at Columbia University. is the author of six books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters(Duke UP\, 1995)\, Female Masculinity (Duke UP\, 1998)\, In A Queer Time and Place (NYU Press\, 2005)\, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP\, 2011)\, Gaga Feminism: Sex\, Gender\, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press\, 2012)\, and\, most recently\, a short book titled Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press). Among other projects\, Halberstam is currently working on a book titled Wild Thing: Queer Theory after Nature\, on queer anarchy\, performance\, and protest culture the intersections among animality\, the human\, and the environment. \nZach Stafford is the newly named editor-in-chief of The Advcoate\, the oldest continuously published LGBTQ periodical in the US\, a position he assumes after serving as editor-in-chief of INTO\, the LGBTQ digital magazine that quickly became one of the most-read queer outlets in the world. Previously he served as the editor-at-large of OUT Magazine and was an award-winning journalist at The Guardian\, where he covered justice\, violence\, and social issues in both his column and long-form features. Stafford regularly provides commentary on radio and podcasts and has appeared on the BBC\, CNN and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. He the coeditor of the bestselling book Boys\, An Anthology and the executive producer/host of the recent documentary BOYSTOWN. \nModerator: \nMark Hansen\, professor at Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism and director of its Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, has been working for nearly three decades at the intersection of data\, art and technology. He serves as the faculty sponsor of the Journalism School’s chapter of the NGLJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists. \nOrganized and Introduced by Alisa Solomon\, professor\, Columbia School of Journalism. \nSponsored by: \nThe Brown Institute for Media Innovation \nCUJ Chapter of NGLJA: The Association of LGBTQ Journalists \nIRWGS: Institute for Research on Women\, Gender & Sexuality
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/queer-here/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181114T203000
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SUMMARY:Free Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect”
DESCRIPTION:This panel is the second in a series of events examining the role that the First Amendment should play in assessing the lawfulness of government surveillance. The first panel addressed legal doctrine and the skepticism with which courts view the claim that surveillance “chills” free speech. This second panel will assess the chilling effect. Does surveillance chill speech and dissent? How so? And can we measure the chilling effect? \nThe panel answering those questions will include Jon Penney and Elizabeth Stoycheff\, two professors who’ve tried to quantify the chilling effect\, and Alex Abdo\, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute. \nFreedom of Expression in an Age of Surveillance: Measuring the “Chilling Effect” \nWednesday\, Nov. 14\, 2018\n6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.\nReception to follow \nPulitzer Hall\, Brown Institute\nColumbia University \nFeaturing:\nAlex Abdo\, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University\nThomas Kadri\, Yale Law School Information Society Project\nJon Penney\, Schulich School of Law\, Dalhousie University\nElizabeth Stoycheff\, Wayne State University \nHosted by the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School\, Information Society Project at Yale Law School\, and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/free-expression-in-an-age-of-surveillance-measuring-the-chilling-effect/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T163000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T214507Z
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SUMMARY:Brown 2018-2019 Speaker Series: Data Visualization at The New York Times
DESCRIPTION:New York Times graphics editor Kevin Quealy will join the Brown Institute for Media innovation in conversation about innovations in data visualization and his work at The Upshot\, the Times’s site about politics\, economics\, and everyday life. \n  \nRSVP is requested but not required.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-2018-2019-speaker-series-data-visualization-at-the-new-york-times/
LOCATION:Packard 101\, Stanford University\, 350 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T193000
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SUMMARY:Opening Up Research for the Greater Good? Ethics\, Privacy\, and Data
DESCRIPTION: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. \nPresentation descriptions below. Register Here \n\nManan Ahmed\, “Torn Apart/Separados: Visualizing Data for/with Critical Eyes”\nMy talk will center on the team-led data-curation and visualization project from spring and summer 2018 which focused on the activities of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the announcement of a policy of family-separation at the southwest borders of United States. I will discuss the ways in which scholars and activists used the Data was used to reveal a hidden cartography of forced separation as well as the ethical concerns of data-curation which led them to re-think the role of visualization in public awareness campaigns. My talk will rely on conversations\, ideas\, expertise\, and intellectual labor of the entire team behind #TornApart/Separados fully credited at the site: http://xpmethod.plaintext.in/torn-apart/credits.html. \nLaurie Allen\, “Open Data\, Data Rescue\, and Risk”\nIn this talk\, Laurie will return to the fall and winter of 2016/2017 when she joined with collaborators in the Penn Libraries\, Penn Program in Environmental Humanities\, and many others to start Data Refuge. Over the first 6 months of 2017\, they supported more than 50 events around the country in an effort to document and save federally produced Environmental and Climate Data. Now nearly two years after that project began\, she’ll reflect on those data saving efforts\, risks\, and the responses to risk. \nMary Marshall Clark\, “Documenting Truth in a Time of Denial and Surveillance: Ethical Dilemmas Oral Historians Face”\nDrawing upon political oral history projects conducted by the Columbia Center for Oral History\, and mentoring Oral History MA students who use oral history to document the historical present\, I will talk about the challenges of using oral history to address the human rights challenges of our times. As oral history moves into a deeper engagement with human rights and commits to making its archives transparent and relevant\, we are also faced with new levels of technical surveillance\, monitoring and danger in using named sources. Simultaneously our ethics demand that we use our increasing ability to work across borders\, often under the radar\, to collect narratives and build historical evidence towards the goal of achieving historical truths that counter mass media\, and/or government accounts. How do we protect ourselves\, and our sources\, in doing this crucial work? \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/opening-up-research-for-the-greater-good-ethics-privacy-and-data/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181022T170000
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SUMMARY:Technology’s Role in Media\, Data Journalism\, and Fighting Fake News? A Session in the Fast Company Innovation Festival
DESCRIPTION: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 Neo4j\, the leading provider of graph database technology\, and learn how in this day and age of big data\, data leaks\, and social media\, technology is helping uncover potentially world-changing stories. Used by groundbreaking organizations and media outlets like the ICIJ and NBC News\, Neo4j’s graph technology is capable of analyzing gargantuan amounts of data to pull out connecting relationships to probe for fake news. \nTickets at https://fastcompany.swoogo.com/innovationfestival18/tickets
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/technologys-role-in-media-data-journalism-and-fighting-fake-news-a-session-in-the-fast-company-innovation-festival/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180927T183000
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SUMMARY:Cory Doctorow with Jad Abumrad
DESCRIPTION:Beyond “I agree”: A democratic technology\, without Big Tech. \nRSVP at brwn.co/cd-register. \nThe techlash marks the end of complacency over Big Tech: in a single instant\, states have gone from being completely blase about the risks of a monopolized digital world run by high-handed CEOs who answer only to their shareholders\, to being certain that the answer involves limiting the excesses of the digital monopolists…by enshrining them as permanent monarchs of the internet and then extracting some regulatory promises from them. \nIt’s a form of Constitutional Monarchy\, in which Google\, Apple\, Facebook\, Twitter and their ilk are acknowledged as the rightful rulers of the net\, and then subjected to the limits placed on them by aristocratic/technocratic regulators. \nThere’s a better way. A more democratic way. The way of the hacker. Hackers don’t accept take-it-or-leave it offers. Instead\, hackers take the parts they want and filter out the parts they don’t. The most democratic future is one in which we tame big tech by taking away its legal right to stop users — and the toolsmiths who serve them — from picking and choosing the parts of the platforms we like\, configuring them to suit our needs with third-party tools\, and tearing up the take-it-or-leave it deal that’s on the table today. \nIt’s undemocratic to have the world shaped by a tiny elite of coders. It’s less democratic to leave the shape of the world up to the coders’ massive profit-driven employers. The MOST democratic future is one where everyone gets to hack\, where we seize the means of computation and distribute it to everyone. \nA public lecture by Cory Doctorow followed by a Q&A with Jad Abumrad
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/cory-doctorow-a-discussion-and-qa/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180926T200000
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SUMMARY:Huxleyed into the Full Orwell: How Digital Copyright Abuse Has Abetted a Culture of Mass Surveillance and Social Control
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow will talk about the millennia-old social compact of the book\, and the arbitrary renegotiation of that contract in the age of ebooks\, where prior restraint\, restrictions on lending\, donation and gifting\, and invasive\, surveillant technologies have become the norm. He will investigate how technology and license agreements have gone on to colonize our relationships with other devices and systems\, from voting machines to tractors\, insulin pumps to thermostats.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/huxleyed-into-the-full-orwell-how-digital-copyright-abuse-has-abetted-a-culture-of-mass-surveillance-and-social-control/
LOCATION:Butler Library 523\, 535 West 114th\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180925T133000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Cory Doctorow
DESCRIPTION:Cory Doctorow will join Dennis Tenen\, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature\, in a conversation about science fiction\, the changing material conditions of contemporary authorship\, copyright\, and surveillance.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/a-conversation-with-cory-doctorow/
LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room\, 74 Morningside Dr\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180730T083000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180730T183000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20180724T023541Z
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SUMMARY:Disinformation Online:  Ethics\, Research\, and Solutions
DESCRIPTION:The Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Center for Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School; Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Columbia Journalism School; Technology\, Media\, and Communications specialization at the School of International and Public Affairs; and Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy at Columbia University are hosting a conference to exchange and discuss ideas about ethics\, research\, and solutions on disinformation online.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/disinformation-online-ethics-research-and-solutions/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences,Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180323T183000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20180307T191249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T191249Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar: Augmented Reality
DESCRIPTION:This is perhaps our most experimental event in terms of “distance” from journalistic practice. Augmented reality (AR) provides a view of an event or phenomenon that is enhanced\, “augmented\,” with computer-generated elements\, perhaps responding to sensor input (sound\, video of the event\, GPS coordinates) or triggers computed through computer vision tools operating on the scene. A mobile device like a phone or a tablet are often the viewing portal for the augmented scene. Join us for a Friday evening seminar with Graham Roberts\, Director of Immersive Platforms Storytelling\, who will talk to the challenges and affordances of augmented reality in journalism.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-augmented-reality/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180301T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180301T170000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20180122T172117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180122T172723Z
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session (Stanford)
DESCRIPTION:Want to learn more about our Magic Grants? Come to one of our upcoming information sessions where you can find out: \n\nWhat kind of projects we funded in the past.\nWhat kind of projects we didn’t fund in the  past.\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal.\nWhat our eligibility guidelines are.\nHow to apply.\n\nAt Stanford\, there will be sessions held on February 15 at 9 AM and March 1 at 4 PM\, both held in the Brown Institute (Gates 174). RSVP (or request a one-on-one meeting on an alternate date) here.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/2097/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180223T170000
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Discussion - Networks
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening discussion between Kevin Connor\, LittleSis and Frederik Obermaier\, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from Suddeutsche Zeitung. They will discuss networks and the role they can play in journalistic reporting and communication. \nData journalists often find that the complexity or the relationships between the various entities they are investigating force them out of simple data analysis techniques. Stories often reduce to figuring out “Who is connected to whom?”. While standard data tools (like relational databases) can be a good choice for some datasets\, connected data (such as company registries\, investor information\, and communication networks) can be difficult and cumbersome to work with. Data journalists today turn to new tools to gain deeper insight. Have you ever struggled with trying to make sense of a spreadsheet with a dozen tabs? If so\, then a graph database might be the tool you need to keep track of connections in your data.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-networks/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180215T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180215T100000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session (Stanford)
DESCRIPTION:Want to learn more about our Magic Grants? Come to one of our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nWhat kind of projects we funded in the past.\nWhat kind of projects we didn’t fund in the past.\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal.\nWhat our eligibility guidelines are.\nHow to apply.\n\nAt Stanford\, there will be sessions held on February 15 at 9 AM and March 1 at 4 PM\, both held in the Brown Institute (Gates 174).  RSVP (or request a one-on-one meeting if you’re unavailable on these dates) here.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-stanford/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20170918T220242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170918T220242Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar - Climate Change
DESCRIPTION:Food production. Transportation. Energy usage. Critical infrastructure. Climate change is affecting almost every aspect of our lives. But reporting on climate is challenging\, and many journalists feel uncomfortable engaging the topic outside an environmental beat. The subject can be technical\, supported by data and models\, some of which do not agree.  \nJoin us for a Friday evening discussion where we shift our focus on climate change to structural inequalities.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-climate-change/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20171117T174549Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171130T200429Z
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SUMMARY:Are Troll Armies Killing Free Speech?
DESCRIPTION:In his essay for the Knight Institute’s Emerging Threats series\, Columbia Law School’s Tim Wu observes that some of the forces undermining contemporary political discourse — such as “troll armies\,” “flooding\,” and propaganda robots — may be beyond the reach of traditional free speech protections. In a conversation co-hosted by the Knight Institute and the Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School\, Wu will be joined by Julia Angwin\, ProPublica\, and David Pozen\, Columbia Law Professor\, for a conversation exploring how to respond to these new threats. \nWatch Live \nProgram: 6:00 p.m.\nReception: 7:15 p.m. \nFeaturing: \nJulia Angwin\, Investigative Journalist\, ProPublica\nTim Wu\, Professor\, Columbia Law School\, and contributing writer\, The New York Times\nDavid Pozen\, Professor\, Columbia Law School and visiting scholar\, Knight First Amendment Institute\nJameel Jaffer\, Executive Director\, Knight First Amendment Institute\nMark Hansen\, Director\, Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, Columbia Journalism School \nTo RSVP – Email info@knightcolumbia.org; subject “RSVP to Are Troll Armies Killing Free Speech” \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/are-troll-armies-killing-free-speech/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171128T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20171117T174813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171117T174902Z
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SUMMARY:Reboot: Informing the Electorate
DESCRIPTION:Reboot Democracy brings together innovators in the technological and political spheres\, helps them connect with each other\, and supports their development of tools that will revolutionize our democratic system. This month we’re teaming up with Harmony Labs and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation for our next event focused on Informing the Electorate. Teams will share the projects they are working on\, we’ll hear from a diverse group of speakers\, and then we’ll open up the mic to anyone who wants to pitch an idea they are excited about before we break into networking. \n\n6:00 – Venue opens. Check-in\, Happy Hour\, and Networking\n7:00 – Welcome / Organizer & Speaker Intros\n7:15 – Project Showcase\n7:45 – Lightning Talks: Speakers will share their experience\, lessons learned\, and ideas for ways technology can make an impact\n8:30 – Q&A\n8:45 – Open Mic Quick Pitches\n9:00 – Mix & Mingle – Connect with others and continue building the future!\n\nThis event is a forum for anyone interested in leveraging technology to solve political issues to come together to network\, discuss ideas\, and potentially form teams for future events. Come and learn how to better utilize the resources of the global tech community toward a stronger democracy for all and join us as we discuss what our next steps as concerned citizens should be and how to become more active and effective. \nRSVP at Eventbrite
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/reboot-informing-the-electorate/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20171101T164211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171101T164211Z
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SUMMARY:NYC Media Lab Combine Infosession
DESCRIPTION:Are you building a startup? Join NYC Media Lab’s Combine accelerator program to help take your idea to the next level and bring your startup to market. Join us for an Information Session for the Combine Accelerator to learn more about the opportunities available to journalism students. If accepted in the accelerator\, participating teams will receive mentorship from leading media and technology executives and investors from NYC Media Lab Member Companies and up to $25\,000 in funding. To date\, 15 teams that have completed the Combine program have formed companies in the areas of machine learning\, computer vision\, VR/AR\, and brain computer interfaces. \nEligibility: Faculty members\, students (undergraduate and graduate)\, and/or existing startups affiliated with a NYC-based university are eligible to apply.\nAward: Up to $25\,000 per team\nApplication Deadline: Sunday\, November 19th\, 2017\nApply: http://www.thecombine.nyc/apply/
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/nyc-media-lab-combine-infosession/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T183000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20170911T133345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T134711Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar - Drone Photography
DESCRIPTION:As with Virtual Reality\, drone journalism offers opportunities in data collection and visual representation afforded by few other technologies that are within the grasp of a typical newsroom. Drones\, or unmanned aerial systems\, provide a perspective that is truly unique. It seems to be good for providing a sense of scale (moving from the ground to a significant vantage point above some event or phenomenon). Drones can provide access to regions that are otherwise impossible to film. The artful\, informative deployment of drone photography and its role in journalism is the subject of this Transparency Series event. \nOn Friday\, we will explore the various uses of drones as a means for reporting\, as well as the legal/ethical concerns associated with the medium. We are delighted to announce that the seminar will be led by Missy Cummings\, Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Duke University.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-drone-photography/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20170919T015023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170919T015023Z
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SUMMARY:Dan Carlin\, host of Hardcore History and Common Sense\, in conversation
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University kicks off our 2017-2018 Media Innovators Speakers Series on October 11 when we host veteran journalist and podcaster\, Dan Carlin\, in a conversation on media\, podcasting\, and the state of journalism\, information\, and public discourse today. Mr. Carlin’s podcasts\, Common Sense and Hardcore History\, were among the first to gain a popular following when the platform took off in the early 2000’s\, and his audience has only grown since\, with upwards of millions of downloads per episode. \nRegister at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dan-carlin-host-of-hardcore-history-and-common-sense-in-conversation-tickets-37287542042
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/dan-carlin-host-of-hardcore-history-and-common-sense-in-conversation/
LOCATION:Bishop Auditorium (Lanthrop Building)\, Stanford University\, 518 Memorial Way\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170922T183000
DTSTAMP:20260509T110504
CREATED:20170911T132638Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170911T133519Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar - Virtual Reality
DESCRIPTION:The transparency series for 2017-18 will kick off with an exploration into virtual reality (VR) and its role in journalism. With the recent explosion of VR – specifically 360-degree video– journalistic outlets are hungry for quality documentary content for immersive platforms. Led by Roger Kenny\, WSJ and Dow Jones\, we will explore the short but dramatic rise of VR in the media. \nWhile immersive media experiences have become increasingly prevalent in the gaming and entertainment industry\, we are only beginning to explore them within the context of documentary photography and journalism. How can media makers use immersion as a tool to build empathy\, engage communities\, and forward social change? How does immersing your viewer in content change the nature of the story you are telling? And how does this mode of experiencing a story change how journalists approach the planning\, creation\, and distribution of stories? \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-virtual-reality/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
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