Category Archives: actor-network theory

Panel on “Digital Methods for Public Policy” at International Conference on Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 29th June 2017

By jwyg | Published: June 28, 2017

How is “born digital” data being repurposed in the context of public policy research and practice? Tomorrow I’ll be chairing a panel on “Digital Methods for Public Policy” at the International Conference on Public Policy 2017 hosted at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. This is a really exciting […]

Also posted in academia, conferences, data, design, digital, digital methods, events, policy, research, science and technology studies, sociology, visualisation | Tagged austerity, born digital data, climate change, Digital Methods, digital policy studies, digital sociology, empirical sociology, platformisation, platforms, policy assemblages, policy devices, policy networks, policy worlds, public policy, science and technology studies, Social Media, socio-technical imaginaries, Twitter, United Nations | Leave a comment

Hello Public Data Lab

By jwyg | Published: April 4, 2017

Apart from working on my Data Worlds book, one of the things that I’ve been doing as part of my Prize Fellowship at the University of Bath is working to set up a new trans-national, trans-institutional Public Data Lab. I’m delighted to announce that Sage Publishing have recently committed to supporting the lab to help […]

Also posted in academia, advocacy, bath, climatechange, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, design, digital, digital methods, energy, environment, infographics, open data, openknowledge, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, sociology, technology, visualisation | Tagged automation, born digital data, critical technical practice, Data Activism, data imaginaries, data infrastructure literacy, data infrastructures, data journalism, Data Literacy, data practices, data publics, data revolution, data work, data worlds, Datafication, Digital Methods, Digital Methods Intiative, digital rights, Field Guide to Fake News, infrastructuring, International Journalism Festival, Medialab, open data, participatory data infrastructures, participatory design, platformisation, Public Data Lab, Sage Publishing, science and technology studies, sharing economy, sociotechnical systems | Leave a comment

New Book Chapter: “Exploring the Narrative Affordances of Graphs with the Iliad” in The Datafied Society, Amsterdam University Press

By jwyg | Published: March 30, 2017

A book chapter that I co-authored on “How to Tell Stories with Networks: Exploring the Narrative Affordances of Graphs with the Iliad” has just been published in The Datafied Society: Studying Culture Through Data (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press) edited by Karin van Es and Mirko Tobias Schäfer. The chapter was written by Tommaso Venturini (INRIA), Liliana […]

Also posted in academia, data, digital methods, digitalhumanities, networks, publications, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Leave a comment

Book Chapter: “Ways of Seeing Data” in Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (London, Palgrave Macmillan)

By jwyg | Published: February 21, 2017

A book chapter that I co-authored on “Ways of Seeing Data: Towards a Critical Literacy for Data Visualizations as Research Objects and Research Devices” has just been published in Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (London: Palgrave Macmillan). It was written with Liliana Bounegru (University of Groningen / University of Ghent), Stefania Milan (University […]

Also posted in academia, data, datajournalism, design, digital, digital methods, history, humanities, infographics, isotype, open data, publications, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Tagged critical literacy, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Data, Data Visualisation, History and Philosophy of Science, Infographics, John Berger, Media Studies, Methodological Reflexivity, Narrativity, New Media Studies, public spending, sts, Tufte, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Seeing Data | Leave a comment

Piece in Open Democracy: “How Could a Global Public Database Help to Tackle Corporate Tax Avoidance?”

By jwyg | Published: February 17, 2017

The following piece was originally published in Open Democracy to coincide with the release of a new research report co-authored with Alex Cobham (Chief Executive, Tax Justice Network) and Richard Murphy (City, University of London) looking at the current state and future prospects of a global public database of corporate accounts. It was also cross-posted on the Tax Justice Network […]

Also posted in academia, data, Data Worlds, history, legalhistory, open data, policy, politics, research, science and technology studies, taxjustice, technology | Tagged Arms Length Principle, BEPS, British East India Company, Capital Requirements Directive, CBCR, country by country reporting, CRD IV, Data Activism, Dodd-Frank, Dutch East India Company, East India Company, G20, G8, Multinational Corporations, OECD, open data, Paolo Cirio, profit shifting, public data, tax base erosion, tax justice, transfer pricing, Unitary Taxation, United Nations | Leave a comment

Call for Papers: “Digital Methods for Public Policy”, International Conference on Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 28-30th June 2017

By jwyg | Published: December 21, 2016

I’m involved in organising a panel on “Digital Methods for Public Policy” at the International Conference on Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 28-30th June 2017. If you’re interested in using digital methods for policy research, then you’re welcome to apply. Further details about the panel can be […]

Also posted in academia, conferences, data, digital methods, open access, policy, politics, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Tagged Digital Methods, ICPP, International Conference of Public Policy, Issue Mapping, Issue Networks, science and technology studies | Leave a comment

Talk: “Data Infrastructure Literacy”, 4S/EASST, Barcelona

By jwyg | Published: September 2, 2016

Today I’ll be giving a talk at at 4S/EASST in Barcelona about ongoing research on “data infrastructure literacy” by Liliana Bounegru, Carolin Gerlitz and myself. The abstract is copied below. This is part of a track on “New Collective Practices of Measurement, Monitoring and Evidence” organised by Evelyn Ruppert, Daniel Neyland and Jennifer Gabrys at […]

Also posted in academia, data, datajournalism, digital methods, open data, policy, research, science and technology studies, talks | Leave a comment

Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po

By jwyg | Published: January 17, 2016

For the next few months I’ll be a Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po in Paris, collaborating on several research initiatives with the médialab led by Professor Bruno Latour and the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). This will include mapping controversies around the taxation of multinational companies, as well as developing research on data infrastructures […]

Also posted in academia, data, datajournalism, digital methods, open data, research, science and technology studies, taxjustice | Tagged Bruno Latour, data infrastructures, Medialab, public information, Sciences Po, Tax | Leave a comment

Talk on “How is Data Made? From Dataset Literacy to Data Infrastructure Literacy”, Web Science 2015, University of Oxford

By jwyg | Published: June 30, 2015

Today I gave a talk titled “How is Data Made? From Dataset Literacy to Data Infrastructure Literacy” as part of the Data Literacy Workshop at ACM Web Science 2015 hosted at the University of Oxford. Drawing on a comparison between data and photography that I made in an article for the Guardian several years ago, […]

Also posted in academia, advocacy, conferences, data, datajournalism, open data, openknowledge, research, science and technology studies, technology | Tagged Data Activism, data infrastructures, Data Literacy, data revolution, datarev, information infrastructures, open data, opendata, politics, research, science and technology studies, sts, Web Science, WebSci15 | Leave a comment

Talk on “The Politics of Open Data: Past, Present and Future” at Data Power conference, University of Sheffield, 22nd June 2015

By jwyg | Published: June 22, 2015

I’m giving a talk today on “The Politics of Open Data: Past, Present and Future” at the Data Power conference at the University of Sheffield. The slides and abstract for the talk are copied below. The Politics of Open Data: Past, Present and Future from Jonathan Gray

Also posted in academia, advocacy, conferences, data, digital methods, digitalhumanities, history, humanities, intellectualhistory, legalhistory, open data, politics, research, sociology, talks | 1 Response

Dr. Jonathan Gray is Prize Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath and Co-Founder of the Public Data Lab. More about his work can be found here. He is on Twitter at @jwyg.

Category Archives: actor-network theory

RECENT POSTS