Liliana Bounegru and I will be giving a talk at Seoul National University on 23rd June 2025, 1pm.

We will talk about repurposing digital media for collective inquiry with the Public Data Lab, as well as the Data Journalism Handbook and Public Data Cultures.

The flyer and abstract for the talk are copied below.

Repurposing digital media for collective inquiry – notes from the Public Data Lab (2017-2025)

The Public Data Lab was founded in 2017 as an interdisciplinary network exploring what difference the digital makes in attending to public problems. It aims to develop materials and formats for collective inquiry with and about digital data, digital methods and digital infrastructures. This talk will provide a walkthrough of a smorgasbord of projects and publications undertaken with the Public Data Lab, including around “fake news” and misinformation, air pollution, tax justice, climate denial, COVID-19 testing, conspiracy cultures, fact-checking, data journalism, nature-based solutions, political bots, forest fires, forest restoration, ecological listening, diasporic solidarity and collective identity formation. It will reflect on what we have learned from these cross-institutional, interdisciplinary collaborations, highlighting the role of social sciences, arts and humanities research in repurposing digital media for collective inquiry. The talk will also draw on Bounegru and Gray’s co-edited Data Journalism Handbook (Amsterdam University Press) and Gray’s forthcoming Public Data Cultures (Polity) to nurture critical engagements with digital data, methods and infrastructures.