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New Essay: “The Data City as Public Experiment?”

By jwyg | Published: July 13, 2018

An essay on “The Data City as Public Experiment?” that I wrote with Noortje Marres (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick) has just come out in London Ideas, a new publication from the Centre for London. You can download a PDF of the piece here. The précis is as follows: Cities have long been […]

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New Article: “Data Infrastructure Literacy”, Big Data & Society

By jwyg | Published: July 11, 2018

An article on “Data infrastructure literacy” that I co-authored with with Carolin Gerlitz and Liliana Bounegru has just been published in Big Data & Society. The abstract for the article is copied below. The article is open access and you can download the PDF here. Data infrastructure literacy Jonathan Gray, Carolin Gerlitz, Liliana Bounegru A […]

Also posted in academia, actor-network theory, advocacy, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, digital journalism, digital methods, digitalhumanities, open access, open data, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Tagged Alain Desrosières, algorithmic accountability, Bruno Latour, Carolin Gerlitz, Celia Lury, collective inquiry, CompStat, Critical Data Studies, Data Activism, data critique, data infrastructure literacy, data journalism, Data Literacy, data publics, data revolution, data worlds, Datafication, Digital Methods, digital sociology, Emmanuel Didier, Erik Borra, Esther Weltevrede, Evelyn Ruppert, experiments in participation, Facebook, FarmSubsidy, Geoffrey Bowker, Ian Hacking, information infrastructure studies, infrastructuralism, infrastructure studies, inventive data practives, inventive methods, Isabelle Bruno, John Durham Peters, Liliana Bounegru, migration, National Information Infrastructure, Nina Wakeford, Noortje Marres, open data, OpenSpending, public finance, public spending, reverse-engineering, Richard Rogers, science and technology studies, Sheila Jasanoff, socio-technical imaginaries, socio-technical infrastructures, sociology of quantification, sts, Susan Leigh Star, Theodore Porter, Twitter, UN, United Nations, Wendy Espeland, What Do They Know | Comments closed

New Article: “A Reality Check(list) for Digital Methods”, New Media & Society

By jwyg | Published: April 24, 2018

An article titled “A Reality Check(list) for Digital Methods” that I co-authored with with Tommaso Venturini, Liliana Bounegru and Richard Rogers has just been published in New Media & Society. The abstract for the article is copied below. You can download the PDF here. A reality check(list) for digital methods Tommaso Venturini, Liliana Bounegru, Jonathan […]

Also posted in academia, digital methods, digitalhumanities, media studies, research, science and technology studies | Tagged big data, data science, Digital Methods, Digital Methods Intiative, digital sociology, digital traces, Google, Harold Innis, internet studies, landscapes, Marshall McLuhan, Media Studies, medium is the message, methodology, operationalisation, platform studies, science and technology studies, traceability | Comments closed

New Article: “Redistributing Data Worlds: Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Democracy”, Statistique et Société, 5(3)

By jwyg | Published: January 28, 2018

I’ve just had an article published in the latest issue of Statistique et Société, a journal dedicated to exploring “how statistics intervenes in society, plays a role that is often unnoticed, and is in turn transformed by it”. The article is titled “Quand les mondes de données sont redistribués : Open Data, infrastructures de données […]

Also posted in academia, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, open access, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Tagged accountability, challenges, civic hacking, data formats, data infrastructure, data infrastructure literacy, data infrastructures, data journalism, data portals, data speak, data work, data worldmaking, data worlds, datasets, democracy, Emmanuel Didier, Geoffrey Bowker, hackathons, hackdays, history of statistics, Ian Hacking, labs, machine readable, open data, open licenses, science and technology studies, Société Française de Statistique, sociology of quantification, sociology of statistics, Statistique et Société, sts, Susan Leigh Star, Theodore Porter, transparency, worldmaking | Comments closed

Publication: A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders

By jwyg | Published: January 8, 2018

Today sees the launch of A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders, a new free and open access resource to help students, journalists and researchers investigate misleading content, memes, trolling and other phenomena associated with recent debates around “fake news”. The field guide responds to an increasing demand for understanding the interplay […]

Also posted in academia, data, datajournalism, digital, digital journalism, digital methods, open access, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Tagged A Field Guide to Fake News, Density Design, Digital Journalism, Digital Methods, digital methods initiative, Digital Methods Winter School 2018, École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, First Draft, King's College London, Medialab, open access, Public Data Lab, Sciences Po, Shorenstein Center, TANTLab, Techno-Anthropology | Comments closed

Preprint on “Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists”, Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies

By jwyg | Published: October 19, 2017

We’ve recently uploaded a new preprint for a book chapter on “Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists”, which is to be published in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018) edited by Scott Eldridge II and Bob Franklin. This is part of a series of collaborations with Tommaso Venturini, […]

Also posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, datajournalism, digital, digital methods, networks, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, sociology, visualisation | Tagged data journalism, data storytelling, gephi, graphs, multimodal, network analysis, network literacies, Public Data Lab, storytelling, storytelling devices, styles of reasoning, visual network analysis, visual network exploration | Comments closed

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 […]

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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, actor-network theory, data, datajournalism, design, digital, digital methods, history, humanities, infographics, isotype, open data, 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 | Comments closed

Piece on “Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination” in the Public Domain Review

By jwyg | Published: November 12, 2016

The following piece was originally posted on the Public Domain Review on the 10th November 2016. Three hundred years after the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and seven hundred years after the birth of Ramon Llull, Jonathan Gray looks at how their early visions of computation and the “combinatorial art” speak to our own age […]

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New Paper: “Narrating Networks: Exploring the Affordances of Networks as Storytelling Devices in Journalism”

By jwyg | Published: July 7, 2016

A journal article which I co-authored with Liliana Bounegru, Tommaso Venturini and Mathieu Jacomy has just been published in Digital Journalism. The title is “Narrating Networks: Exploring the Affordances of Networks as Storytelling Devices in Journalism”, and the abstract is copied below. An open access pre-print of the paper is available here, and a list […]

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Dr. Jonathan Gray is Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Co-Founder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam and the médialab at Sciences Po, Paris. More about his work can be found here. He is on Twitter at @jwyg.

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