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SUMMARY:Points Unknown Mapping Module I: Intro to Mapping / QGIS
DESCRIPTION:News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading to its current configurations. Alongside the development of web technologies\, journalistic organizations have incorporated web-based maps to enhance reader engagement with stories. But these interactions haven’t always been easy to produce. \nPoints Unknown will train journalism students in GIS and mapping techniques\, and will prompt them to ask questions such as: What data are made public? What do they say about life in the city? How are neighborhoods rendered in data and what are the consequences of those representations? What undiscovered stories can be found in visualizing geographies of data? The module will focus on introducing core methods to engaging with / producing both static\, annotated\, and web-based maps — and will provide an introduction to spatial data. Spatial training paired with journalism can serve as a missing “integrator” of data and the real world—providing lessons that travel beyond the boroughs of New York. \nIn Fall 2019\, the Brown Institute will conduct a set of four workshops focused on introducing mapping as a tool for discovery and expression. Details of each of the sessions can be seen below: \nWeek 1 – Intro to Mapping / QGIS\nWeek 2 – Intro to Annotated Maps / Illustrator\nWeek 3 – Intro to Web Maps / Mapbox.js\nWeek 4 – Intro to Satellite Imagery / Google Earth Engine \nYou are not required to attend all sessions\, but it is strongly encouraged as many of the core concepts travel across the technologies. For more information about the program\, see https://pointsunknown.nyc. \nRegister at brwn.co/fall19-map.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/points-unknown-mapping-module-i-intro-to-mapping-qgis/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Trainings
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SUMMARY:Mapping Data Flows - How the Largest Tech Firms Use Your Data
DESCRIPTION:Join John Battelle — Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at SIPA\, and Co-Founder & CEO of Recount Media — and a team of researchers from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, the Journalism School and SIPA\, in understanding how the largest technology companies collect\, use\, and share user information across the internet. We’ve transformed the “Big Four” (Apple\, Google\, Amazon\, Facebook) terms of service and data policies — the thousands of lines of code that govern their use of your data — into a database powering an interactive visualization\, an initial version of which we invite you to explore and critique. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by SIPA’s TMac\, Management Specialization\, Tech & Policy Initiative\, Entrepreneurship & Public Policy Initiative\, Brown Institute for Media Innovation. \n\nLunch will be served. \nRegister for the event at eventbrite.com.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/mapping-data-flows-how-the-largest-tech-firms-use-your-data/
LOCATION:International Affairs Building 1501\, 420 W 118th St\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Transparency Series - Natural Language Processing
DESCRIPTION:Presenter\nAllison Parrish\, NYU \nWorkshop Description\nMuch like other forms of data\, documents and text provide enormous potential as a form of data to be analyzed and visualized. This workshop will introduce and discuss the ways in which textual materials (news articles\, government records\, social media\, and other primary sources) can be worked with as data in creative and insightful ways. Participants in this workshop will be exposed to some common techniques for textual analysis and representation of documents common in contemporary practice. Participants will be led through creative exercises around the intersection of computation and language as a way to gain familiarity and comfort with this medium. The workshop will involve a bit of programming in Python to allow participants to work with\, visualize\, and generate text in interesting ways. \nRegister for the Workshop
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-transparency-series-natural-language-processing/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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SUMMARY:How Charts Lie - A Talk by Alberto Cairo
DESCRIPTION:We’ve all heard that a picture is worth a thousand words\, but what if we don’t understand what we’re looking at? \nCharts\, infographics\, and diagrams are ubiquitous. They are useful because they can reveal patterns and trends hidden behind the numbers we encounter in our lives. Good charts make us smarter—if we know how to read them. \nHowever\, they can also deceive us. Charts lie in a variety of ways—displaying incomplete or inaccurate data\, suggesting misleading patterns\, and concealing uncertainty— or are frequently misunderstood. Many of us are ill-equipped to interpret the visuals that politicians\, journalists\, advertisers\, and even our employers present each day. We need to learn to not only spot the lies in deceptive visuals\, but also to take advantage of good ones. In this talk\, Alberto Cairo demystifies an essential new literacy\, one that will make us better equipped to navigate our data-driven world. \nRegister for the talk at howchartslie.eventbrite.com \n\n \nAbout Alberto Cairo \nAlberto Cairo is a journalist and designer\, and the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami (UM). He is also the director of the visualization program at UM’s Center for Computational Science. He has been head of information graphics at media publications in Spain and Brazil. The author of several books such as ‘How Charts Lie’ (2019) and ‘The Truthful Art; (2016)\, Cairo currently consults with companies and institutions like Google\, and has provided visualization training to the European Union\, Eurostat\, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\, the Army National Guard\, and many others. He lives in Miami\, Florida.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/howchartslie/
LOCATION:Lecture Hall\, Pulitzer Hall\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:2019 Brown Institute Annual Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Mark Hansen and Maneesh Agrawala cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2019 Showcase! \nJoin us for a reception and exhibition of our 2018-2019 projects. \nOctober 17\, 2019 – 6:00pm\nat the Brown Institute\nat Columbia University \n\n\nDescriptions of the projects can be seen below. The event will take place in the Brown Institute\, located in Pulitzer Hall (2950 Broadway) at Columbia University.\n\n\n\nArtistic Vision. The crucial footage for breaking news reports often comes from eye witnesses\, “citizen journalists\,” using their smartphones. While these videos often do not meet the quality standards set by news organizations\, there is a hesitation to perform much post-processing to improve the content — in the spirit of being accurate and truthful. With their Magic Grant\, two Computer Scientists\, Jane E and Ohad Fried\, will help people capture higher quality content and\, ultimately\, contribute more impactful\, immediate\, on-scene documentation of breaking events. E and Fried will create tools that overlay directly on the screen of a traditional camera\, dynamically augmenting the current view of a scene with information that will help people make better photo capture decisions. “Our hope is that such interfaces will empower users to be more intentional about their storytelling and artistic decisions while taking photos.” \n  \nAudiovisual Analysis of 10 Years of TV News. Ten years of U.S. TV News — Since 2009\, the Internet Archive has been actively curating a collection of news broadcasts from across the country\, assembling a corpus of over 200\,000 hours of video. Computer Scientists Will Crichton and Haotian Zhang will perform an in-depth longitudinal study of this video collection\, scanning for patterns in both audio as well as visual trends. How has coverage of different topics changed over the years? How often do women get cut off in conversation versus men? What is the relationship between still images and subject? How does clothing and fashion differ across networks and shows? This project will tackle these and many other difficult questions\, demonstrating the new potential for large-scale video analysis. This Magic Grant will build on a previous grant from Brown\, also led by Will Crichton\, called Esper. That project created an open-source software infrastructure that helped journalists and researchers “scale up” their investigations\, to analyze\, visualize and query extremely large video collections. \n  \nBigLocal News. State patrols stop and search drivers in every state\, but until recently it has been nearly impossible to understand what they’ve been doing — and whether these searches discriminate against certain drivers. The data was scattered across jurisdictions\, “public” but not online\, and in a dizzying variety of formats. In 2014\, Cheryl Phillips began the Stanford Open Policing Project to provide open\, ongoing and consistent access to police stop data in 31 states\, and created a new statistical test for discrimination. This is just one example of how sharing local data an improve local journalism. Phillips — together with Columbia Journalist Jonathan Stray\, Stanford Electrical Engineering PhD student Irena Fischer-Hwang\, and Columbia Journalism/Computer Science MS student Erin Riglin — was awarded a Magic Grant to build on this success\, creating a pipeline that will enable more local accountability journalism and boost the likelihood of big policy impact. The team will collect\, clean\, archive and distribute data that can be used to tell important journalistic stories. The data will be archived in the Stanford Digital Repository\, and the teams work will also help extend Columbia’s Workbench computational platform\, making the analysis of local data broadly available to even novice data journalists. \n  \nCharleston Reconstructed. Particularly in the American South\, historical memory is distorted by outdated structures in public spaces. Antebellum and Confederate era monuments celebrate the oppressive legacy of white men and exclude the contributions of women and people of color to American society\, complicating claims to equality in the present. White supremacists gather around them\, local governments fight over whether to remove them\, and activists tear them down. It’s a slow moving process toward creating a physical space that reflects more current ideas about the past and present. With a seed grant\, Columbia Documentary Journalism student Robert Tokanel\, Stanford Computer Scientist Kyle Qian\, and Stanford undergraduates Khoi Le and Hope Schroeder will help audiences imagine a powerful new reality. The team will work toward digitally transforming public spaces in Charleston\, South Carolina\, using narrative film techniques and augmented reality to flip the power structures of the past\, hoping to expose users to a range of perspectives about the value of monuments as they currently stand. \n  \n \nDecoding Differences in DNA Forensic Software. Imagine testing the fingernail scrapings of a murder victim to determine if a suspect could be the killer\, only to have one DNA interpretation software program incriminate the suspect and a different program absolve them. Such a scenario played out two years ago in the widely-publicized murder trial of Oral Nicholas Hillary\, raising questions that the criminal justice system still cannot answer: why\, when\, and by how much do these programs differ from one another? To answer these questions\, this Magic Grant assembles a multi-disciplinary team — Jeanna Matthews is a Computer Scientist; Nathan Adams\, a DNA investigations specialist; Jessica Goldthwaite with The Legal Aid Society; Dan Krane\, a Biologist; Surya Mattu\, a Journalist; and David Madigan\, a Statistician. This Magic Grant project will systematically compare forensic DNA software\, moving the story beyond anecdotal examples to a systematic investigative strategy. In the process\, they will explore important issues of algorithmic transparency\, and the role of complex software systems in the criminal justice system and beyond. \n  \n \nDemocracy Fighters. Ninety-two journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000. Contrary to popular belief\, these reporters did not die as the result of generalized violence. Instead\, they were targeted. Their deaths cannot be understood without reading and listening to their work. Consequently\, the worth of their journalism — and the risks they undertook — cannot be fully comprehended without understanding the rich context and history of the places where they lived\, the social forces they faced\, and the stories they told. Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul\, a Journalist want to give these reporters’ work a home and provide that context so that “through this repository\, their fight for democracy will continue.” \n  \n“Casting the Vote: A Call to a Count” is a collaboration between documentary filmmaker June Cross; director Charlotte Brathwaite\, a 2019 Creative Capital Awardee; dramaturg Sunder Ganglani\, writer Janani Balasubramanian and musician Justin Hicks. They are working on a new way to bring journalism to an audience and to engage them in the issues facing our democracy.  They have gathered a formidable group of theatre artists\, young performers\, chefs\, and community organizers to bring my journalistic research on voter suppression to diverse audiences in new ways\, and get them seriously engaged in the urgent issues haunting the very core of our democracy. This FREE evening at La Mama is a dinner\, a party\, a call to action\, a gathering\, a survival guide for troubling times. There’s documentary\, live music\, performance\, food; and most of all\, there’s deep and pluralistic conversation. Together\, they will examine historical and contemporary voter suppression and chew on the upcoming 2020 census–all in an effort to understand ‘who counts’ in America\, and how we might come to count on one another in the struggle for democracy\, justice\, and a more perfect union. \n  \nLearning to Engage in Conversations for AI Systems. People are interacting with artificial intelligence (AI) systems more every day. AI systems play roles in call centers\, mental health support\, and workplace team structures. As AI systems enter these human environments\, they  inevitably will need to interact with people in order to achieve their goals. Most AI systems to date\, however\, have focused entirely on performance and rarely\, if at all\, on their social interactions with people\, and how to balance the AI’s goals against their human collaborators’ goals. Success requires learning quickly  how to interact with people in the real world. Stanford Computer Scientists Ranjay Krishna and Apoorva Dornadula were awarded a Magic Grant to create a conversational AI agent on Instagram\, where it will learn to ask engaging questions of people about the photos they upload. Its goal will be to simultaneously learn new facts about the visual world by asking questions\, and learn how to interact with people around their photos in order to expand its knowledge of those concepts. \n  \nLineage. \nLineage is an artificially intelligent engine that enables the exploration of digitized visual archives in a human-like manner. With Lineage\, the user can input any image\, and get in return visually similar images from thousands of years of art and design. The returned images are not identical to the input but rather give the user the visual context in which it exists\, allowing for a deeper understanding of the input image. Lineage uses the publicly available databases of art and design institutions\, museums\, archives and libraries. It eschews verbal\, keyword-based search\, preferring a visual\, open-ended\, non-definitive result schema. Its similarity algorithm relies on colors\, shapes\, patterns and their layered combinations\, mimicking the way humans look at objects\, and encouraging serendipitous connections across time periods\, location of origin\, creator and mediums: clothing\, craft\, furniture\, architecture\, graphic and industrial design\, visual arts and so on. \n  \n  \nNeverEnding 360. \nNews organizations like The New York Times and The Guardian have experimented with fast-paced\, serial production schedules for 360 videos\, hoping to prove out the medium. While 360 videos offer viewers with more freedom to explore scenes in a story\, that freedom also poses an added challenge to directors and creators. Because users can be looking anywhere at any time\, they might be looking in the wrong direction while important events or actions in a story take place\, outside the user’s field of view. By contrast\, Virtual Reality environments can address this problem by controlling the animation of objects\, perhaps having a scene pause or loop until the user is looking in the right direction. With her Magic Grant\, Computer Scientist Sean Liu will consider how to adapt these strategies to 360 videos\, providing better storytelling without compromising the immersive feeling of these videos. \n  \n  \nParaFrame. \nStories come in many forms\, and in a wide range of detail — from casual anecdotes told among friends\, to epic Hollywood blockbusters\, heavily engineered and rendered in vivid high-definition. But regardless of how they are told\, great stories do not simply appear fully formed in the mind; they are inspired by the work of others\, crafted with familiar tools\, and refined through iteration. The Magic Grant team of Computer Scientists Abe Davis and Mackenzie Leake will provide users with tools that focus on the construction of a narrative (specifically\, through the writing of a script or the posing of rough character sketches) and use algorithms to search the Internet for visuals that can be repurposed or remixed to fit that narrative. In doing so\, their work will offer an accessible way for untrained users to learn from and build on the work of experts. \n  \nWhen Deportation is a Death Sentence. \nSarah Stillman\, Staff Writer at The New Yorker\, will lead a team to build the first-ever searchable database of deaths-by-deportation\, in a manner that is empirically rigorous\, narratively engaging\, and visually stunning. The team will merge cutting-edge data journalism (pursued alongside foreign correspondence in refugee camps\, migrant shelters\, mortuaries) with  technological innovation (focusing on the aesthetic power of the mobile experience) to build a practical but elegant database that turns their massive spreadsheet into an unshakable story. The team includes the powerful data visualization expertise of Giorgia Lupi\, co-founder of Accurat. They will make their findings and ongoing investigation accessible through a website that amplifies the very best of what Lupi calls “data humanism.” In Stillman’s words\, “Absent this new effort to bring these data to light\, the stories will remain buried\, unspoken\, and unaccounted-for in the public record.”
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/showcase-19/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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SUMMARY:Brown Welcomes Washington Post Director of Engineering Jeremy Bowers
DESCRIPTION:Stanford welcomed Jeremy Bowers\, Director of Engineering\, at The Washington Post. Bowers and his team are ramping up for the 2020 election\, focusing on political data projects including election restyles\, congressional votes and campaign finance. Bowers spoke on October 15 to an interdisciplinary group of Stanford students (compute science\, engineering and business\, among others). He described how his team\, which sits at the intersection of engineering and news\, mesh coding and journalistic skills and the importance of cross-team collaboration.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3AOkIkfoXA&feature=youtu.be
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-welcomes-washington-post-director-of-engineering-jeremy-bowers/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series
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SUMMARY:The Quest for Balance: Technology\, Innovation and the Public Good in Higher Education
DESCRIPTION:Talk and discussion with Dr. Jonelle Bradshaw de Hernandez\, Ph.D.\nExecutive Director of Foundation Relations and researcher at The University of Texas at Austin. \nTechnical skills are paramount to succeed in the modern labor market – but the question remains\, what are the attributes and skills needed to make an impact on the social good? Who determines this and who decides and how does this impact vulnerable students in the U.S.? My first aim is to examine how well our existing higher education system encourages high-quality matches of students to professions in order to maximize national production. This is particularly important in STEM where a focus on investments in innovation and workforce development is paramount. The policies that articulate this importance are based both upon private interests and serving the public good. \nDr. Bradshaw de Hernandez works closely with advancement and academic leadership to prioritize and execute fundraising programs and initiatives that attract significant foundation support. Dr. Bradshaw de Hernandez’ research interests include the intersection of science and technological innovations\, risk perceptions and job security in building a transformational U.S. workforce focused on social good. \nPreviously\, she served as Senior Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations at Stony Brook University in New York. She graduated from Cornell University\, College of Human Ecology\, with a Bachelor of Science in Human Service Studies concentrating in Social Policy and Community Development. She received her Master of Arts in Organizational Psychology from Columbia University\, Teachers College\, an Advanced Certificate in Instructional Leadership at St. John’s University\, and her Doctorate from Stony Brook University\, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in Technology\, Policy and Innovation.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/the-quest-for-balance-technology-innovation-and-the-public-good-in-higher-education/
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:20191010T160000
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation featuring Stephanie Hankey\, Tactical Tech
DESCRIPTION:“Go to The Glass Room. If Black Mirror Had a Showroom\, This Would Be It.” – Baratunde Thurston \nNearly 150\,000 people in 30 countries have visited the Glassroom; an interactive public intervention reflecting on the impact of technology on society. As the doors of the Glassroom open in San Francisco\, its co-curator Stephanie Hankey gives a sneak preview of the conversation they expect to have as they bring this critical exhibition to the home of Big tech. Digging inside some of the issues presented there\, she will talk about Tactical Tech’s groundbreaking work investigating over 350 companies who sell personal data for political influence and why we should care. She will share insights from their latest work ‘Efficiency and Madness’ critiquing blindspots in technology design\, as well as their struggle to answer the most commonly asked question of all\, ‘what can we do?’. \nRegister to attend at brwn.co/tactical-tech \n  \nAbout Stephanie Hankey\nStephanie Hankey is a designer\, technologist\, and social entrepreneur who has worked internationally at the intersection of technology and human rights for the past 20 years. She is the co-founder and Executive Director of Tactical Tech\, a Berlin-based NGO that since 2003 has worked with millions of people worldwide\, helping them better understand how to control their data\, digital privacy and security. She is the co-founder of the creative agency Tactical Studios and the co-curator of the exhibition Nervous Systems and the traveling exhibition: The Glass Room. She teaches\, writes and consults to companies\, NGOs and governments on the ethical design of technology\, has a degree in Design History\, and an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art. She was a visiting fellow at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet and Society at Harvard and a Visiting Industry Associate at the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University. \n\nThe Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation series highlights 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. The events\, which take place over the fall and spring semesters\, include a presentation\, Question & Answer session\, and networking reception. All Columbia University students\, faculty\, postdocs\, and administrators are welcome to register and attend these events. The Brown Institute for Media Innovation is proud to partner with the Foundations for Research Computing program and the Data Science Institute for the Distinguished Lectures series. \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/steph-hankey/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters
DESCRIPTION:El Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, el Comité de Protección a Periodistas\, Artículo 19\, y Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl cordialmente te invitan al lanzamiento de Democracy Fighters\, un archivo viviente. \nEsta plataforma es un archivo digital que agrega y conserva los trabajos de los periodistas asesinados en México. Desde el año 2000\, han sido asesinados 111 periodistas y trabajadores de medios\, convirtiendo a México en uno de los países más letales para ejercer el periodismo\, según el Comité de Protección a Periodistas. A la fecha\, Democracy Fighters ha recuperado más de 12\,000 publicaciones de 40 periodistas que abarcan 30 años y documentan una variedad de temas. \nAcompáñanos en la presentación y exhibición de la plataforma que agrega y honra los trabajos de estos periodistas\, seguida de una recepción con Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul\, creadora de Democracy Fighters. \nEste proyecto fue posible gracias a un Magic Grant del Brown Institute for Media Innovation y una donación de Lila Gault y Bill Arp. \nPor favor confirma tu asistencia en brwn.co/df \n  \n\n  \nThe Brown Institute for Media Innovation\, the Committee to Protect Journalists\, Article 19\, and Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl cordially invite you to the launch of Democracy Fighters\, a living archive. \nThis platform is a digital archive that aggregates and preserves the works of journalists killed in Mexico. Since 2000\, 111 journalists and media workers have been killed in the country\, turning it into one of the deadliest to be a reporter in the world\, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Democracy Fighters currently hosts over 12\,000 clips from 40 journalists spanning over 30 years\, which document a variety of topics throughout the country. \nJoin us for a presentation and exhibition of the platform that aggregates and honors the work of journalists killed in Mexico\, followed by a reception featuring Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul\, creator of Democracy Fighters. \nThis project was made possible through a Magic Grant from the Brown Institute for Media Innovation and a gift from Lila Gault and Bill Arp. \nRegister at brwn.co/df \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/el-lanzamiento-de-democracy-fighters/
LOCATION:Casa Refugio Citlaltepetl\, Citlaltépetl 25\, Hipódromo Condesa\, Ciudad de México\, Mexico City\, 06170\, Mexico
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars,Receptions
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SUMMARY:Brown Institute for Media Innovation Presents Nicholas Thompson
DESCRIPTION:Photo by: Mark Mann/WWD \nEditor-in-Chief of WIRED magazine\, Nick Thompson will discuss media trends with Brown Institute Director Maneesh Agrawala.\nRSVP: BIT.LY/BIMITHOMPSON\n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-institute-for-media-innovation-presents-nicholas-thompson/
LOCATION:Paul G. Allen Building 101X\, 330 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, 94305\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190917T134536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190920T135053Z
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SUMMARY:A Science-Media Meetup for Climate Stories With Impact
DESCRIPTION:The climate crisis poses a unique challenge to journalism. It touches every part of society\, from politics and business to sports and culture\, yet in many situations\, we barely mention it. Journalists can help to change this. There is a climate story for every beat: Facebook’s new server farms are being built in the Arctic\, not the desert\, as the company anticipates rising temperatures; Wine regions are shifting around the world; Qualifying events for the Tokyo Olympics this summer were shortened due to the extreme heat. To meet the challenge\, we need journalists with diverse expertise and perspectives to normalize talking about climate change in every part of the news. \nOn Thursday 26 September\, in the midst of Climate Week\, The Brown Institute\, in partnership with the Earth Institute at Columbia University\, invite you to take part in an evening event exploring new ways to convey challenges and choices around climate change with greater engagement and impact. The evening will begin with a conversation between Somini Sengupta\, a New York Times reporter covering social disparities in environmental impacts\, Moses Shumow\, documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor at Emerson College\, and John Upton\, who’s building partnerships between local newsrooms and Climate Central\, a prize-winning data-driven climate-communication hub\, to create locally-relevant stories around global warming. Together\, they will help to unveil the challenges to reporting on a changing climate and how the beat might need to adapt. \nFollowing their conversation\, journalism students will mix with environmental studies and earth science researchers\, PhD candidates\, and post-docs to explore how to incorporate a climate angle in stories found throughout the media landscape — a crash course on how journalists can learn from and work alongside experts to better convey consequential science in ways that serve community needs. The evening will conclude with a review of the evening’s discoveries and a call to action from Ros Donald\, PhD candidate in Communications at Columbia Journalism School and Andy Revkin\, a three-decades-and counting veteran climate journalist and founding director of the Initiative on Communication Innovation & Impact at the Earth Institute. \nRegister at https://climate-reporting.eventbrite.com
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/a-science-media-mashup-for-climate-stories-with-impact/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Pulitzer Hall (Journalism School) at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars,Receptions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191203T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190920T211530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190925T214555Z
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SUMMARY:Media Innovation Lectures
DESCRIPTION:The goal of this series is to introduce students interested in Computer Science\, Engineering and Media to what’s possible and probable when it comes to media innovation. Speakers from multiple disciplines and industry will discuss a range of topics in the context of evolving media with a focus on the technical trends\, opportunities and challenges surfacing in the unfolding media ecosystem. Speakers will underscore the need to innovate to survive in the media and information industries. Highlights include: \n10/15: INNOVATING WITH DATA / Jeremy Bowers\, Director of Engineering\, The Washington Post \nBowers sits at the intersection of news and engineering and will discuss the Post’s plans for political data projects including election results\, congressional votes and campaign finance.  \n11/5 – INNOVATING WITH AI /Xiao Ma\, Director of Engineering\, Medium  \nMa will go “under the hood” to explain how Medium thinks about AI + media and discuss the evolution of the company’s powerful personalization algorithms. \n11/12: INNOVATING WITH PLATFORMS /Stacy-Marie Ishmael\, Senior Editor\, Apple News \nIshmael is a veteran journalist who previously worked at The New York Times and Buzzfeed. In this talk she will discuss the ethics of platforms\, focusing on why platforms say they are not publishers\, the conflation of neutrality with objectivity\, the power of deliberate user experience decisions to shape the contours of speech and  \n  \n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/4712/
LOCATION:Gates 174\, 353 Serra Hall\, Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Media Innovators Speakers Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190910T164205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190910T164205Z
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SUMMARY:Brown Institute and Tow Center Welcome Mixer
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute and Tow Center serve as a digital hub at the school\, researching and building the future of journalism. Join us in the Brown Institute to meet with researchers and staff from both organizations\, and learn more about the various opportunities and offerings afforded to students during their time at the Journalism School as well as upon graduation. \nNibbles and drinks will be provided.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-institute-and-tow-center-welcome-mixer/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Receptions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20180802T162410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180802T162410Z
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Fernando Perez
DESCRIPTION: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.  \nThis lectures features Dr. Fernando Perez\, Assistant Professor of Statistics\, University of California at Berkeley Faculty Scientist\, Department of Data Science and Technology\, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory \nThe event will include a presentation\, Question & Answer session\, and post-event networking reception. All Columbia University students\, faculty\, postdocs\, and administrators are welcome to register and attend these events. The Foundations for Research Computing program is proud to partner with the Data Science Institute and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation for this Distinguished Lectures \nRegister Here
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/distinguished-lectures-in-computational-innovation-dr-fernando-perez/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190502T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190426T221010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190427T002257Z
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SUMMARY:Brown Institute Welcomes Technology Journalist Kara Swisher
DESCRIPTION:Brown welcomes technology journalist Kara Swisher\, co-founder of Recode and a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section. She previously wrote for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal\, and served as co-executive editor of All Things Digital. Kara will discuss the state of the technology industry and will share her perspective on media trends with Brown Director Maneesh Agrawala.\n\n\nThursday\, May 2\, 20196:30 pmMcCaw Hall\, Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center\n326 Galvez St\, Stanford\, CA 94305\n\n\n\n\nRegistration link: https://stanforduniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4Hp4pVNx0oE0KkR
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/brown-speaker-series-stanford-tech-journalist-kara-swisher/
LOCATION:McCaw Hall\, Arrillaga Alumni Center\, 326 Galvez Street\, Stanford\, CA\, 943055\, United States
CATEGORIES:Panels & Seminars
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190418T133816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190418T134243Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190422T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190422T193000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190415T151850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190415T152057Z
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SUMMARY:Public Forum: Counting the Victims of Police and Extrajudicial Killings
DESCRIPTION:As part of the War On Crime Or War On The Poor? A Conference on Violence & Policing in the Philippines\, Latin America\, & the U.S. the Brown Institute for Media Innovation is co-sponsoring the Public Forum: Counting the Victims of Police & Extrajudicial Killings. Speakers include Patrick Ball (Human Rights Data Analysis Group)\, Ignacio Cano (State University of Rio de Janeiro)\, Catalina Perez Correa (Mexico’s war on crime and the use of Lethal Force by Federal Forces)\, and Divam Jain (Building data-driven tools to enhance police accountability). The panel will be moderated by Sheila Coronel (Graduate School of Journalism\, Columbia University). \nRSVP at http://bit.ly/CJSConf
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/public-forum-counting-the-victims-of-police-and-extrajudicial-killings/
LOCATION:World Room\, Pulitzer Hall\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190416T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190416T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190412T190644Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190412T190644Z
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SUMMARY:Journalism & Design: A Mini-Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute for Media Innovation and the Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism bring you this mini-conference of designers\, illustrators\, and visualizers to talk about the work they do\, how they think about it\, and how it relates to written journalism. Speakers include Remeike Forbes (Jacobin)\, Helen Yentus (Riverhead)\, Aviva Michaelov (The New Yorker)\, Lauren Tamaki (New York Times\, New York Magazine)\, Ellen Weinstein (Washington Post\, CJR)\, Jen Christiensen (Scientific American)\, and others. \nPlease RSVP to brwn.co/jd
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/journalism-design-a-mini-conference/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190413T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190413T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20180921T010035Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190401T175924Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Workshop: Drone Photography
DESCRIPTION: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. On Saturday\, we will get our hands dirty and take a field trip north of NYC and give students the chance to both pilot small drones as well as stage shots from the robotic\, onboard camera. The workshop will be led by the USA Today Unmanned Aerial Systems Team led by Director Andy Scott. \nTo apply and for more information\, go to transparency.brown.columbia.edu
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-workshop-drone-photography-2/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190412T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20180921T010037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190410T173636Z
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SUMMARY:Transparency Series Seminar: Drone Photography by Josh Haner and Meaghan Looram\, New York Times
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Friday evening for our last Transparency Series seminar featuring Josh Haner\, staff photographer and the senior editor for photo technology\, in conversation with Meaghan Looram\, the Director of Photography at The New York Times. They will discuss previous drone project they’ve worked on together\, and the role of drones in Journalism. 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. \nJosh Haner is a Staff Photographer and the Senior Editor for Photo Technology at The New York Times. In 2014\, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for a photo essay documenting the recovery of a Boston Marathon bombing victim. \nMeaghan Looram is the Director of Photography at The New York Times. A graduate of Stanford University\, Ms. Looram has been an editor at The Times since 2005. She oversees The New York Times’ photographic coverage\, the news organization’s staff of 40 photo editors and 15 staff photographers\, as well as many of its most ambitious visual projects\, including “A Year at War”\, “One in 8 Million”\, “Carbon’s Casualties” and the annual Year in Pictures. \nFor registration and more information\, go to transparency.brown.columbia.edu \n  \n\n\n\n 
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/transparency-series-seminar-drone-photography-2/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transparency Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190411T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20180802T155420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190403T183407Z
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Dr. Gina Helfrich
DESCRIPTION:Join or Die: The Future of Computational Innovation and the End of the Academy as We Know It \nAcademia presently faces an existential crisis. Tenure-track positions are shrinking. Adjunct positions are on the rise. Scientific and technical fields are losing talent to lucrative industry jobs\, while humanities programs graduate a glut of doctorates whose career prospects in the field are slim. In this lecture\, Dr. Helfrich will argue that the rise of networked technologies and their spread into virtually every area of life and business pose a challenge to the existing structure of advanced degree programs in the United States. The future depends on the ability of academics to meet these challenges by breaking down research silos and coming together to leverage our collective strengths.About  \nAbout Gina Helfrich \nDr. Gina Helfrich is Director of Communications and Culture at NumFOCUS\, a non-profit that supports better science through open code. \nDr. Helfrich holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University with a specialization in ethics and critical social theory. She is also the former Director of the Harvard College Women’s Center. After teaching and leading culture change programs at Harvard\, Dr. Helfrich moved to Austin\, Texas\, where she began working in the technology industry managing strategic programs and communications. She was co-founder of recruitHER\, a women-owned recruiting & consulting firm committed to making the tech industry more inclusive and diverse. At present\, she consults on diversity and inclusion for rapidly growing organizations\, in addition to her work for NumFOCUS. Dr. Helfrich is a vocal advocate for inclusion and diversity in tech and business and a frequent speaker on this subject; she has been a selected speaker at South By Southwest Interactive (SXSW) and the Texas Conference for Women. Despite having left academia\, Dr. Helfrich continues to engage with questions of ethics and technology as a practitioner in the tech industry. \nAbout the Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation\n \nAt 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. \nRegister Here
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/distinguished-lectures-in-computational-innovation-dr-gina-helfrich/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series
ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190404T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190404T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190321T133054Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190327T160135Z
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SUMMARY:Art of Data Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Art of Data conference is an annual gathering of researchers\, practitioners\, artists\, and journalists\, to discuss issues related to data\, cities\, and visualization. It is organized by the Columbia University Libraries in collaboration with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the Journalism School. The conference will take place on April 4th from 3pm to 6pm\, followed by a small reception. \nThis year’s theme is Processing New York\, which emphasizes how we produce\, collect\, clean\, analyze\, and process the data that we use. For this iteration we are putting together three panels: one\, The Story of NYC\, which will deal with humanities related data; two\, Uncovered New York\, which will talk about data that is rarely collected (think rodents); and three NYC Data in Action\, in which we will examine the positive and negative effects of technology and data in the way we manage and live our cities. Each panel will have two speakers\, each one talking about their work for 20 minutes followed by a 20 minute Q&A. A rough schedule is outlined below. \n3:00 – 4:00pm NYC Data in Action \nChris Whong\, is a public-sector entrepreneur and civic technologist. As Founder and Director of the progressive digital services team NYC Planning Labs\, he promotes the use of agile methods\, human-centered design\, and open technology to build impactful tools at the NYC Department of City Planning. Chris is a leader in the NYC civic technology community\, and a former Code for America brigade leader. \nBen Wellington\, is the creator of I Quant NY\, a data science and policy blog that focuses on insights drawn from New York City’s public data\, and advocates for the expansion and improvement of that data. His data analysis has influenced local government policy including changes in NYC street infrastructure\, the way New Yorkers pay for cabs and the design of NYC subway vending machines\, and his talk on urban data was featured on TED. Ben holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science (Natural Language Processing) from New York University. \nPanel moderated by Kae Bara Kratcha\, Entrepreneurship & Social Science Librarian at Columbia University Libraries. \n4:00 – 5:00pm The Story of NYC \nRachel Egan\, is a Brooklyn-based artist and information scientist. Her creative practice includes coding\, drawing\, and needlework\, while her research is focused on applying semantic technologies and open access mechanisms to cultural object cataloging. She currently leads The Art Genome Project\, the classification system and technological framework that powers Artsy\, the leading platform for collecting and discovering art. Egan is a former Linked Open Data Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art\, a researcher for the Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings Catalogue Raisonné\, and has provided archival and data services for Artnet\, Gallerie degli Uffizi\, Gagsoian Gallery\, and Greene Naftali Gallery. She received her Bachelor of Liberal Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and Master of Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute. \nGrace Afsari-Mamagani\, is a doctoral student in English at NYU\, working on a dissertation that reads post-9/11 American fiction representing the lived experiences of marginalized communities as the site of a theory and ethics of interaction design for educational resources. In her teaching and research\, she centers the relationship between everyday information structures and long\, violent histories of colonialism and nation-building. She currently serves as a doctoral fellow in digital research and pedagogy with the NewYorkScapes research collaborative\, which seeks to build community at the intersection of cultural heritage\, spatial and urban studies\, and digital methods. Grace is a member of the 2018-2020 HASTAC Scholars cohort\, a former Polonsky-Brine digital humanities fellow at NYU\, a former MLA Connected Academics fellow\, and a recovering marketing agency project manager. Her professional interests include instructional design\, educational technology\, and digital project consulting. \nPanel moderated by Sophie Leveque\, Social Work & Social Science Librarian at Columbia University Libraries. \n5:00 – 6:00pm Uncovered New York \nJason Munshi-South\, is a Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences and the Louis Calder Center at Fordham University. His lab studies the ecological and evolutionary consequences of urbanization for wildlife populations\, with a particular focus on New York City. Of particular fascination for Jason are the rodents that live in and around our urban homes\, but his lab studies organisms ranging from mammals to lichens. \nGrga Basic\, is an Associate Research Scholar and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP); his work and research focus on critical\, narrative\, and investigative cartography. He joined the Center for Resilient Cities and Landscapes (CRCL) in 2018\, coming from the Center for Spatial Research. At CRCL\, Grga acts as a mapping expert\, developing and overseeing spatial analysis and cartographic representations for all projects. At GSAPP\, Grga also co-teaches Points Unknown\, an interdisciplinary course focused on pairing journalistic techniques with design practices through spatial data analysis and visualization. Prior to joining GSAPP\, Grga held academic appointment at the Harvard Urban Theory Lab and worked as an architect at the Atelier Seraji in Paris. His cartographic representations have been exhibited at the Venice\, Hong Kong\, Shenzhen\, and Rotterdam Biennials of Architecture. \nPanel moderated by Wei Yin\, Research Support & Data Services Librarian.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/art-of-data-conference/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190330T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190330T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190321T132529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190321T132529Z
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SUMMARY:Columbia Music Scholarship Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Columbia University Graduate Program in Music presents its annual conference on the topic: “Sound in Struggle: Audible Resistances.” Join us for a day of panels on the place of music in political resistance. \nAlex E. Chávez\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame\, will be delivering his keynote address “Sonic Bridges and Intersectional Futures.” \nProgram: \n9:30 am – Welcome and Breakfast\n10:00 am – Session 1: Amplifying Archives\nChair: Julia Doe \nElizabeth Weinfield\, “Leonora Duarte (1610–1678): Converso Composer in Antwerp”\nMari Jo Velasco\, “Basque Songs of Revolutionary Turmoil and the Soundscape of Town Conflict\, (1791-1792)”\nDavid Floyd\, “Critical Representation: Incorporating African American Art Music Composers into Theory Pedagogy”\n11:45 am – Session 2: Sound Tactics and Genre Resistance\nChair: Kevin Fellezs \nAlexander Goncalves\, “Lyric and Liberation: Radical Pragmatics in Brazilian Hip Hop”\nKelsey Klotz\, “Choosing to Resist: White Privilege\, Civil Rights\, and the Music Industry”\nBenjamin Safran\, “Classical Music and the Paradox of Repression in Contemporary Social Movements of the United States”\n1:00 pm – Lunch\n2:15 pm – Session 3: Soundscapes of Protest\nChair: Emily Wang \nJoe Lovell\, “Sonic Resistance in the Early PRC: Subverting the Soundscape in Mao’s China”\nRebecca Lentjes\, “Sonic Dissent at U.S. Anti-Abortion Protests”\nMiranda Fedock\, “The Audible Transnation: Listening to WeChat as Resistance”\n4:00 pm – Keynote Speech: Alex E. Chávez (University of Notre Dame)\n5:00 pm – Reception \nThis event is free and open for the public. RSVP HERE
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/columbia-music-scholarship-conference/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conferences
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190315T160000
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SUMMARY:Visual Literacy Module III
DESCRIPTION:The Brown institute is offering a three-session workshop on Visual Literacy\, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures\, discussions\, and hands-on sessions. You will walk away with a basic understanding of design principles and an overview of the graphics editor Adobe Illustrator. \nIn the workshop you will learn to communicate a piece of content clearly and effectively in type\, color and layout\, and recreate a piece of graphic from scratch with Illustrator. \nThe workshop will take place on Fridays 3/1\, 3/8\, and 3/15 from 1pm to 4pm. Please sign-up at brwn.co/visual-language\, contact Rosalie (hy2514@columbia.edu) if you have any further questions.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/visual-literacy-module-iii/
LOCATION:607C in Pulitzer Hall\, Columbia University
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190314T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190314T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20180802T144055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T162943Z
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lectures in Computational Innovation: Runa Sandvik\, New York Times
DESCRIPTION:‘Protecting High-Risk Users at The New York Times’ \nRuna Sandvik joined The New York Times in 2016 to build a security program dedicated to the newsroom\, putting the focus on the security maturity of the newsroom; the desks; and individual reporters. In doing so\, Sandvik built on experience from her time at The Tor Project\, Freedom of the Press Foundation\, consulting for established media organizations and working closely with independent freelancers around the world. In this presentation\, Sandvik will share lessons learned while building this program\, talk about the challenges reporters are facing both online and offline\, and discuss ways in which we can empower security teams elsewhere to support their high-risk users. \nRuna Sandvik is the Senior Director of Information Security at The New York Times\, focusing on defense\, incident response\, and innovative solutions for journalistic security. Sandvik loves to travel and has spoken at numerous conferences around the world. She is a former developer with The Tor Project\, a technical advisor to the Freedom of the Press Foundation and a member of the review board for Black Hat Europe. She tweets as @runasand. \nRegister at brwn.co/sandvik.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/distinguished-lectures-in-computational-innovation-tbd-2/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Distinguished Lecture Series,Transparency Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190313T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190128T183141Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190128T183141Z
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SUMMARY:Mapping Module 5 – Recreating a Map from the News
DESCRIPTION:News unfolds in places and every newsworthy event is shaped by the details of location. Those details might include the specifics of a neighborhood as it is today or of the history leading to its current configurations. With the popularization of cartography\, anyone with a computer and an internet connection can make a map\, yet in news organizations\, the practices of cartography and GIS have remained largely in domain of engineering and graphics teams\, not with reporters. \nThis module will teach journalists how to make use of spatial data. Using tools common to all graphics desks\, students will learn how to find and tell stories using maps. The module is five weeks and will cover everything from spatial analysis to map design. It will take place 10am-1pm every Friday\, from February 13 – March 13. \nRegister for the workshop at brwn.co/map19. Please direct any questions to Michael Krisch (mkrisch@columbia.edu) or Juan Saldarriaga (juan.saldarriaga@columbia.edu).
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/mapping-module-5-recreating-a-map-from-the-news/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190312T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190131T160706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190307T184359Z
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Are you passionate about the role that emerging technologies can play in the future of media? Do you have a story that can only be told using technology outside the scope of traditional media? A Brown Institute Magic Grant might be for you. \nEstablished in 2012 as a collaboration between Columbia University’s Journalism School and Stanford’s School of Engineering\, Brown Institute Magic Grants seed innovation in the changing media landscape. \nMagic Grants provide year-long funding awards of up to $150\,000 ($300\,000 for teams with members of both the Columbia and Stanford communities). In addition to funding\, grantees have access to a distinguished advisory and mentoring group\, an extensive and inspiring alumni network. \nIf you’re interested in learning more about our Magic Grant offerings\, come to one of our upcoming information session where you can find out: \n\nThe types of projects we’re interested in supporting\nThe various types of support we offer to grantees & fellows\nEligibility guidelines\nHow our staff can help you develop your proposal\nHow to apply\n\nAt Columbia\, there will be sessions held on Thursday\, February 21 at 12:00pm and Tuesday\, March 12 at 5:00pm; both held in the Brown Institute (Pulitzer Hall). Office hours are also offered every Thursday from 1-3pm. To register for office hours\, please visit brwn.co/questions.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-2/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Columbia\, 2950 Broadway\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190308T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190308T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190128T171931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190128T180850Z
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SUMMARY:Visual Literacy Module II
DESCRIPTION:The Brown institute is offering a three-session workshop on Visual Literacy\, designed for journalism students to build vocabularies and practical skills around visual design through lectures\, discussions\, and hands-on sessions. You will walk away with a basic understanding of design principles and an overview of the graphics editor Adobe Illustrator. \nIn the workshop you will learn to communicate a piece of content clearly and effectively in type\, color and layout\, and recreate a piece of graphic from scratch with Illustrator.  \nThe workshop will take place on Fridays 3/1\, 3/8\, and 3/15 from 1pm to 4pm. Please sign-up at brwn.co/visual-language\, contact Rosalie (hy2514@columbia.edu) if you have any further questions.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/visual-literacy-module-ii/
LOCATION:607C in Pulitzer Hall\, Columbia University
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Columbia":MAILTO:browninstitute@columbia.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190307T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190307T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190131T225523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190131T225523Z
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SUMMARY:Magic Grant Information Session
DESCRIPTION:We’ll go over a brief overview of the Brown Institute’s history and work\, and give an outline of  our Magic Grants program and policies. \nOpen office hours will also be held through February and March (except February 8) in Gates 176\, Fridays 1:30-4. Please email Ann Grimes to confirm or request an alternate time.
URL:https://brown.stanford.edu/event/magic-grant-information-session-4/
LOCATION:Brown Institute at Stanford\, 355 Serra Mall\, Stanford\, CA\, 94305
CATEGORIES:Info Sessions
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brown Institute @ Stanford":MAILTO:brown_institute@stanford.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190306T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190306T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T144948
CREATED:20190301T222319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190301T225211Z
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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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