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Application: https://brown.submittable.com/submit/76870/2017-18-magic-grant-proposal https://brown.submittable.com/submit/76870/2017-18-magic-gra...
Deadline: March 17, 2017
"We are looking for hardware, software, and story proposals. We are particularly interested in projects that advance storytelling and journalism through new applications of technology. In the past, projects have responded to current political climates (the creation of a Panamanian government data repository, documentation of the various “offline networks” in Cuba), enhanced journalistic practice (news discovery through hotspots in social media feeds, a tool to autogenerate rough cuts for documentary videos), pushed the bounds of storytelling through technology (360-documentary on famine in South Sudan, an augmented reality application for viewing artwork), and used computation to find and tell stories (large-scale natural language processing software to examine declassified documents, an algorithm-based method to aid journalists in science reporting). "