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Happy 10th Birthday Public Domain Review!

By jwyg | Published: January 1, 2021

Today is the 10th birthday of the Public Domain Review, which I co-founded along with its editor Adam Green. As per its mission statement the review is “dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature, and ideas – focusing on works now fallen into the public domain, the […]

Posted in advocacy, art, copyright, history, humanities, intellectualhistory, openknowledge, publicdomainreview | Tagged Commons, digital commons, public domain, Public Domain Review | Comments closed

Call for Papers: “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research”, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

By jwyg | Published: December 14, 2020

A call for papers on “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research” has just been published by Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, for a special issue I’m guest editing with Daniela van Geenen (University of Siegen), Dr. Karin van Es (Utrecht University). The text of the call is available here and […]

Posted in academia, data, data politics, digital methods, digitalhumanities, media studies, research, science and technology studies, teaching, technology, tools, visualisation | Tagged calls for papers, Convergence, critical data practice, Critical Data Studies, critical technical practice, data studies, Media Studies, new media, New Media Studies, publications | Comments closed

“Critical Zones” featured in New York Times “Best Art Books of 2020”

By jwyg | Published: November 27, 2020

Critical Zones: The Science and Politics of Landing on Earth edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel on MIT Press (to which I contributed a chapter on the “Datafication of Forests”) has been featured on the New York Times’s list of “Best Art Books of 2020”. ✨ 📖 🌱 ‘CRITICAL ZONES: THE SCIENCE AND POLITICS […]

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New Book: “Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access” (MIT Press, 2020)

By jwyg | Published: October 20, 2020

MIT Press have recently published a new book on Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access edited by Martin Eve and myself. The book aims to provide a “critical inquiry into the politics, practices, and infrastructures of open access and the reconfiguration of scholarly communication in digital societies”. My chapter, “Infrastructural […]

Posted in academia, books, Bruno Latour, copyright, digitalhumanities, higher education, humanities, legalhistory, open access, publications, Reassembling Scholarly Commuincations, research, science and technology studies | Tagged african scholarship, archives, Bruno Latour, care, colonialism, copyright, copyright law, decolonial, digital humanities, empirical knowledge, ethics of care, formats, infrastructure studies, learned societies, legal history, legal studies, libraries, open access, platformisation, platformization, postcolonial, public libraries, scholarly communications, science and technology studies, sts | Comments closed

Twelve Challenges for Critical Data Practice

By jwyg | Published: June 9, 2020

As we’re in the final stages of editorial for the Data Journalism Handbook (forthcoming on Amsterdam University Press) Liliana Bounegru and I are curious to hear from those who have read and/or used the online beta of the book. In particular we’re curious to learn about any projects or activities which were prompted by the “Twelve […]

Posted in books, data, Data Journalism Handbook, data politics, datajournalism, datajournalismhandbook, digital journalism, open access, projects, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies | Tagged algorithm studies, critical data practice, Critical Data Studies, data as relations, data infrastructures, Data Journalism Handbook, material participation, participation, uncertainty, visual culture | Comments closed

Online launch of “Critical Zones” exhibition at ZKM

By jwyg | Published: May 22, 2020

This weekend sees the online launch of “Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics” at ZKM Center for Art and Media in Germany, co-curated by Bruno Latour, Peter Weibel, Martin Guinard and Bettina Korintenberg. I’ve contributed a chapter on “The Datafication of Forests? From the Wood Wide Web to the Internet of Trees” to the […]

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An open letter and open questions about the COVID19 datastore

By jwyg | Published: May 20, 2020

I’ve co-signed an open letter with some open questions on the COVID19 datastore along with a group of researchers and of civil society organisations. The letter is copied below. The original version can be found here. Associated coverage and posts can be found at The New Statesman, The Register, Computer Weekly, IT Pro, Hollyrood and […]

Posted in advocacy, data, data activism, data politics, policy | Tagged Article 19, COVID19, COVID19 datastore, data politics, Liberty, Open Knowledge Foundation, Open Knowledge International, open letters, Open Rights Group, Privacy, Privacy International | Comments closed

Interview in New Internationalist on air pollution data practices

By jwyg | Published: May 12, 2020

I was recently interviewed by New Internationalist co-editor Amy Hall for the cover story of its latest edition on air pollution. We spoke about a recent interdisciplinary research project at King’s College London on “Doing Participation with Air Pollution Data” also building on the Public Data Lab’s Save Our Air project. Here’s an excerpt: Jonathan […]

Posted in data, data activism, environment, interviews, media appearances, Public Data Lab, quotes, research | Tagged Air pollution, climate change, data practices, King's College London, New Internationalist, participation, sensing devices, sensors | Comments closed

Book Chapter “The Data Epic: Visualisation Practices for Narrating Life and Death at a Distance” in Data Visualization in Society (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press)

By jwyg | Published: May 6, 2020

I’ve just had a chapter on “The Data Epic: Visualisation Practices for Narrating Life and Death at a Distance” published in a new book on Data Visualization in Society (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press) edited by Helen Kennedy and Martin Engebretsen. The book is open access and you can download the whole manuscript as as PDF […]

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New Article: “‘Fake News’ as Infrastructural Uncanny”, New Media & Society

By jwyg | Published: January 21, 2020

An article by Liliana Bounegru, Tommaso Venturini and I on “‘Fake news’ as infrastructural uncanny” has just been published in New Media & Society. It builds on work that we did as part of the Field Guide to “Fake News” with the Public Data Lab. The article is open access and freely available on the web and in PDF format. […]

Posted in A Field Guide to "Fake News" and Other Information Disorders, academia, media studies, Public Data Lab, publications, research, science and technology studies | Tagged infrastructure studies, like economy, link economy, metrification, quantification, tracker economy, trackers, uncanny, Uncanny Studies | Comments closed

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.