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New Course on “Data Activism” at King’s College London

By jwyg | Published: March 5, 2019

This academic year we’ve got a new graduate course on “data activism” at King’s College London, which I’ve been teaching this semester. The course supports students to critically engage with emerging practices associated with data activism, drawing on perspectives from science and technology studies, (new) media studies and data studies. Along with other readings, it […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, advocacy, data, data activism, datactive, design, digital, digital methods, digitalhumanities, higher education, research, science and technology studies, teaching, visualisation | Tagged Amnesty Decoders, Amnesty International, citizen generated data, Critical Data Studies, Data Activism, data imaginaries, data infrastructures, data justice, data revolution, data worlds, DATACTIVE, Datafication, Density Design, design studies, engaged research, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, imaginaries, MA, OpenStreetMap, participatory data infrastructures, participatory design, quantification, science and technology studies, sociology of quantification, Sorting Things Out, Surveillance | Comments closed

New paper: “Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project” in Information, Communication & Society

By jwyg | Published: February 20, 2019

Information, Communication & Society have just published an article that I wrote on “Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project”. The article is open access and the abstract and full reference are copied below. This piece would not have been possible without the time and input from the list of […]

Posted in academia, data, data activism, publications, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Tagged Amnesty Decoders, Amnesty International, Critical Data Studies, Data, Data Activism, data and society, data infrastructures, data practices, data publics, data studies, Data Visualisation, Data Witnessing, data work, data worlds, Decoders, digital witnessing, Media Studies, media witnessing, New Media Studies, science and technology studies | Comments closed

Abstract for “Fog of Finance? Visualising Offshore and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty” at MoneyLab #6, University of Siegen

By jwyg | Published: February 8, 2019

Following is the abstract for our contribution on “The Fog of Finance? Visualising Offshore and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty” at the upcoming MoneyLab #6: Infrastructures of Money hosted by the Institute of Network Cultures and the University of Siegen. This is based on a collaboration between the Tax Justice Network, the University of Sussex, Density Design and the […]

Posted in academia, advocacy, art, data, datajournalism, design, digital, digital journalism, digitalhumanities, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, talks, taxjustice | Tagged critical data practice, Density Design, Money Lab, MoneyLab, MoneyLab6, Offshore Finance, Public Data Lab, Tax Justice Network, University of Siegen | Comments closed

Talk: “What Does Data Do? Making Data Public, Keeping Data Private and Other Data Worlds”, Privacy Camp 2019, Brussels

By jwyg | Published: January 29, 2019

Notes from my contribution to a panel on “Reimagining Data Futures: Data and Agency” at Privacy Camp 2019 with Minna Ruckenstein (Consumer Society Research Centre, University of Helsinki), Mirko Tobias Schäfer (Utrecht Data School, University of Utrecht) and Stefania Milan (DATACTIVE, University of Amsterdam), moderated by Imge Ozcan (Law, Science, Technology & Society, Vrije Universiteit […]

Posted in academia, conferences, Data Worlds, events, privacy, research, talks | Tagged Amnesty International, Anne Helmond, Bruno Latour, Data Activism, data infrastructures, Data Society, Donna Haraway, Imge Ozcan, infrastructure studies, Mirko Schafer, platform studies, Privacy, PrivacyCamp, Sandra Braman, Stefania Milan, sts, Utrecht Data School | Comments closed

New Book Chapter: “Making Data Public? The Open Data Index as Participatory Device” in Good Data (Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures: 2019)

By jwyg | Published: January 26, 2019

A book chapter on “Making Data Public? The Open Data Index as Participatory Device” co-authored with Danny Lämmerhirt has just been published in a new open access book on Good Data. The book is part of the Theory on Demand series of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, founded by media theorist and activist […]

Posted in academia, advocacy, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, digital, media studies, open access, policy, publications, research, science and technology studies | Tagged Critical Data Studies, Data Activism, data infrastructures, data journalism, enumerated entities, enumeration, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, material participation, Media Studies, open data, Open Data Index, Open Knowledge International, participation, performativity, science and technology studies, sociology of quantification, statactivism, sts, valuation | Comments closed

Table of contents and chapter previews for “The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice”

By jwyg | Published: December 12, 2018

As we announced last year, Liliana Bounegru and I are currently co-editing a new edition of the The Data Journalism Handbook which will be published on Amsterdam University Press next year. As it says in the introduction, the book is “a collective experiment in accounting for data journalism practices and a collective invitation to explore […]

Posted in academia, books, data, datajournalism, datajournalismhandbook, digital journalism, digital methods, media studies, open data, projects, Public Data Lab, publications, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Tagged algorithm studies, algorithmic accountability, archiving, critical data practice, critical technical practice, data infrastructures, data investigations, data journalism, Data Journalism Handbook, data methods, data practices, data publics, data visualisations, ddj, digital liberalism, Digital Methods, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, news graphics, open source, Panama Papers, platform studies, teaching, text analysis | Comments closed

New project: What can citizen-generated data do? Research collaboration around UN Sustainable Development Goals

By jwyg | Published: August 8, 2018

A new research initiative led by the Public Data Lab, King’s College London and Open Knowledge International in collaboration with the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the UN Foundation will map and explore what “citizen-generated data” can do, with a particular focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It will be undertaken ahead of the […]

Posted in academia, data, digital methods, open data, policy, projects, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies | Tagged air quality, Anna Tsing, CGD, citizen generated data, citizen journalism, citizen science, Citizen Sense, citizens as sensors, citizens’ observatories, civic technology, co-production, community-based monitoring, crowdsourcing, data infrastructure literacy, data interoperability, data quality, data worlds, device cultures, drones, experiments in participation, extreme citizen science, Frackbox, Fracking, Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data, grassroots mapping, Jennifer Gabrys, King's College London, maps, marketisation, mobile apps, online platforms, ontological politics, Open Knowledge International, participatory action research, participatory data collection, participatory design, platformisation, Public Data Lab, satellite imagery, scalability, score cards, SDGs, sensing devices, social media listening, surveys, the internet of things, UN, UN Foundation, UN Sustainable Development Goals, user-generated content, volunteered geographic information, World Data Forum | Comments closed

Panel on “Data Worlds” at EASST2018

By jwyg | Published: July 18, 2018

I’m co-convening a panel on “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures” at EASST2018 – the latest edition of the conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology – which takes place on 25-28th July 2018 at Lancaster University, UK. The panel is organised by several colleagues at the Public […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, digital, digital methods, media studies, open data, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, sociology, talks | Tagged apps, Carolin Gerlitz, citizen data, citizen generated data, citizenship, civic hacking, civic tech, codesign, collaboration, coproduction, Data Activism, data infrastructures, data worldmaking, data worlds, digital ethnography, EASST2018, ethnography, Evelyn Ruppert, flagging, Github, information infrastructure studies, information infrastructures, infrastructure studies, issues, Noortje Marres, open data, participatory design, platform studies, Privacy, public data, Public Data Lab, public experiments, science and technology studies, situational analytics, sociology of quantification, sociology of statistics, statistics, sts, Tommaso Venturini, world-making, worldmaking | Comments closed

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 […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, design, digital, digital methods, publications, science and technology studies, visualisation | Tagged 596 Acres, Air pollution, Anne Helmond, big data, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Centre for London, Citizen Sense, citizen sensing, city data, Data Activism, data city, Data Sublime, data walking, Digital Methods, digital sociology, dioramas, experiments in participation, Geoffrey Bowker, internet of things, Issue Networks, Living Lots NYC, London Ideas, Making Sense, Moritz Stefaner, Nerea Calvillo, Noortje Marres, open data, Orit Halpern, panoramas, platformisation, platforms, Responsible Data, science and technology studies, Selfie City, smart city, Sohei Nishino, statactivism, Susan Lei, tax justice, University of Warwick, Will Davies | Comments closed

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 and full reference for the article are copied below. The article is open access and you can download the PDF here. Data infrastructure literacy Jonathan Gray, Carolin Gerlitz, […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, advocacy, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, digital journalism, digital methods, digitalhumanities, open access, open data, publications, 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

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.

Author Archives: jwyg

New Course on “Data Activism” at King’s College London

New paper: “Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project” in Information, Communication & Society

Abstract for “Fog of Finance? Visualising Offshore and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty” at MoneyLab #6, University of Siegen

Talk: “What Does Data Do? Making Data Public, Keeping Data Private and Other Data Worlds”, Privacy Camp 2019, Brussels

New Book Chapter: “Making Data Public? The Open Data Index as Participatory Device” in Good Data (Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures: 2019)

Table of contents and chapter previews for “The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice”

Panel on “Data Worlds” at EASST2018

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

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

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