Colleen Stockmann and Jean-Baptiste Boin are featured in a lovely piece in the New York Times on the digital revolution’s touch on museums. Colleen describes their Magic Grant project Art++ as giving “you more
Stanford Magic Grant Team Earns City Recognition
The Magic Grant team Crowdsourced Democracy Team at Stanford was recognized on Oct. 15 by the City of Vallejo, Calif., for a digital voting system and their work on crowd
Magic Grants take top prizes at NYC Media Lab Summit
One hundred students and faculty from nearly a dozen NYC area universities participated in a demo session during the NYC Media Lab Annual Summit hosted at The New School in
Brown Media Innovation Base Camp – Call for Applications
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at the School of Engineering at Stanford University and the Graduate School for Journalism at Columbia University invites you to apply for the inaugural
Computation+Journalism Symposium Schedule Announced
The 3rd Computation+Journalism meeting had 45 submissions, from which we culled a number of invited talks, demos and papers. Additionally, we’ve curated several panels and a keynote speaker. The full schedule
David Cohn to speak on Object-Orientated Journalism
Join us for Brown^2 Bag Lunch Speaker Series at Stanford Object-Oriented Journalism: Case Circa by David Cohn, Founding Editor & Chief Content Officer, Circa Friday, November 7th, 2014, 12pm (noon), Y2E2 101, Stanford University
Drag and Facebook’s Identity Problem
Brown Institute Magic Grantee Jessa Lingel co-authored a piece for The Atlanticon Facebook’s recent public apology. According to their article After aggressively suspending the accounts of dozens of drag performers, in
Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things
This weekend the Brown Institute hosted Sherlock Holmes and the Internet of Things, an experiment, led by the Digital Storytelling Lab at Columbia, in new forms and functions of storytelling. Roughly 25 storytellers, game developers,
Latour week at Columbia
Last night, Prof. Latour spoke to an audience of 500 people on his recent work is on climate change, on global ecological crisis. You can see a video of the event here.