Transparency Series Seminar – Climate Change

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

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. Join us for a

Magic Grant Information Session (Stanford)

Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

Want to learn more about our Magic Grants? Come to one of our upcoming information session where you can find out: What kind of projects we funded in the past. What kind of projects we didn't fund in the past. How our staff can help you develop your proposal. What our eligibility guidelines are. How to apply.

Transparency Series Discussion – Networks

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

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. Data journalists often find that the complexity or the relationships between the various entities they are investigating force them out of simple

Magic Grant Information Session (Stanford)

Brown Institute at Stanford 355 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

Want to learn more about our Magic Grants? Come to one of our upcoming information sessions where you can find out: What kind of projects we funded in the past. What kind of projects we didn't fund in the  past. How our staff can help you develop your proposal. What our eligibility guidelines are. How

Transparency Series Seminar: Augmented Reality

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

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.

Disinformation Online: Ethics, Research, and Solutions

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

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

A Conversation with Cory Doctorow

The Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room 74 Morningside Dr, New York, NY, United States

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.

Huxleyed into the Full Orwell: How Digital Copyright Abuse Has Abetted a Culture of Mass Surveillance and Social Control

Butler Library 523 535 West 114th, New York, NY, United States

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

Cory Doctorow with Jad Abumrad

Lecture Hall, Pulitzer Hall 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

Beyond “I agree”: A democratic technology, without Big Tech. RSVP at brwn.co/cd-register. The 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

Technology’s Role in Media, Data Journalism, and Fighting Fake News? A Session in the Fast Company Innovation Festival

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

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

Opening Up Research for the Greater Good? Ethics, Privacy, and Data

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York, NY, United States

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