UPCOMING EVENTS

The Tow Responsive Cities Initiative On Tuesday, April 28th, at 6:30 pm, Susan Crawford will be presenting a new white paper - The Responsive Cities Initiative: What a University Could Do To Help.  The Responsive Cities Initiative comprised a series of workshops in the fall of 2014 focused on the question: What can a university center do to help cities use technology to make lives better for their citizens?  Crawford will moderate a panel discussion about the future of fiber and cities.  Come hear leading thinkers chart the course - combining fiber optics, big data, policy-making, local journalism, and effective governance. Read the white paper here Read a Q & A with Crawford  RSVP on Eventbrite Tow Tea: Curating Digital Photography On Thursday, April 30th, at 4:00 pm, the Tow Center will co-present an event with the Magnum Foundation on Digital Photography and new methods of dissemination and curation.  We will be joined by Magnum Photographer Susan Meiselas, Yukiko Yamagata, curator of the Open Soceity Foundation's Moving Walls Exhibition, and Edu Bayer, a photojournalist currently working in Cuba. Moving Walls is a traveling exhibition featuring in-depth social documentary photography. The project has been widely acclaimed for its innovative approach to sustaining and disseminating photographic work. RSVP here Caitlin Petre - The Traffic Factories On Thursday, May 7, at 6:00 pm, the Tow Center will host a panel discussion about Tow Fellow Caitlin Petre's new report, The Traffic Factories.  Petre's work explores how analytics shape the culture, internal dynamics, and daily work of the newsroom.  How can publications foster a culture around metrics that aligns with their mission and values? Petre explores this question through ethnographic research about Chartbeat, Gawker Media, and The New York Times. RSVP here Columbia Journalism School Showcase On Tuesday, May 12, at 6:00 pm, the Tow Center for Digital Journalism and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation will host the Columbia Journalism School Showcase. The Showcase is an open house event where professional journalists, industry partners, university collaborators, students, and the public are invited to the J-School to see and experience the original and innovative reporting, publishing and presentation work being done at the school. RSVP here ON THE TOW BLOG Tow Responsive Cities Initiative: An Interview with Susan Crawford Smitha Khorana "What fiber is going to do is augment our human capabilities. It will give us an additional layer of life. Online life is not separate from offline life. Fiber will become increasingly relevant to how we live our life--and our lives increasingly will be lived in cities." Read the blog post here Towards a Standard for Algorithmic Transparency in the Media Nicholas Diakopoulos Last week, on April 21st, Facebook announced a few updates to its algorithmically curated news feed. The changes were described as motivated by "improving the experience and making the "balance of content the right one" for each individual.  And while a post with some vague information is better than the kind of vapid corporate rhetoric Jay Rosen recently complained about, we need to develop more sophisticated algorithmic transparency standards. Read the blog post here Tow Tea: Privacy and Publication - The Ethics of Open Data, Algorithms and the Internet Susan E. McGregor Digital journalism today operates in a global sphere not limited by the geographic boundaries or transmission speed of traditional print publishing, changing the impact of what happens when we hit "publish."  Professor Steve Bellovin and Assistant Professor Susan McGregor discussed issues of privacy and publication in a recent Tow Tea. Listen to an audio recording of the discussion  Read a description of the event here TOW CENTER REPORTS Learning Security: Information-Security Education for Journalists  Chris Walker and Carol Waters Lies, Damn Lies and Viral Content: How News Websites Spread (And Debunk) Online Rumors, Unverified Claims, and Misinformation Craig Silverman Play the News: Fun and Games in Digital Journalism Maxwell Foxman TOW CENTER IN THE NEWS Can newsrooms be ethical and competitive with UGC? Journalism.co.uk Why is Media Business Innovation Dominated By Advertising PBS MediaShift New Verification Handbook for Investigations PBS MediaShift