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a picture of me on a bridge at Water of Leith Walkway in Edinburgh, close to steps up to Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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How are digital technologies changing life on Earth? How can they nurture care, solidarity, and imagination rather than exploitation, alienation, and harm?

My work critically and creatively explores the roles of digital data, methods, and infrastructures in shaping how we know and live together.

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I am Director of the Centre for Digital Culture and Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Humanities at King’s College London. I am also 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.

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I’m currently finishing a book on public data practices and contributing to projects examining:

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Here you can find a gathering of:

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My mother and her family are Hakka-Chinese-Malaysian-Singaporean-American and my father was Scottish. I contribute to the work of several anti-racism and East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) community groups.

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My name is Jonathan W. Y. Gray. I use my middle initials as there are many other Jonathan Grays out there. I use my initials jwyg as a username on the web and social media.

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