Author Archives: jwyg

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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

New Project: “Save Our Air”

By jwyg | Published: June 26, 2018

Today the Public Data Lab is launching its Save Our Air project, which explores how data can be used to attend to and assemble people around different aspects of air pollution. As well as focusing on how data can represent air pollution levels in the context of science and policy, it looks at how “situating […]

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Japanese Translation of “A Field Guide to ‘Fake News’ and Other Information Disorders”

By jwyg | Published: May 1, 2018

The Japan Center of Education for Journalists (JCEJ) has just published a Japanese translation of the Public Data Lab‘s Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders. You can download the PDF here. I provided the following quote to accompany their announcement: We’re delighted to see the Japanese translation of the Field Guide to […]

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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 […]

Posted in academia, digital methods, digitalhumanities, media studies, publications, 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: “Three Aspects of Data Worlds”, Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy

By jwyg | Published: April 20, 2018

I’ve just had an article on “Three Aspects of Data Worlds” published in Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy as part of a special issue on “Data Activism”. Edited and introduced by Stefania Milan and Lonneke van der Velden, the issue includes articles from Helen Kennedy, Lina Dencik, Stefan Baack, Miren Gutiérrez, Leah Horgan and Paul […]

Posted in academia, data, open access, philosophy, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Tagged big data, collective accomplishments, data a priori, Data Activism, data liberation, data protection, data worlds, FOI, GDPR, information infrastructures, open data, performativity, public data, public information, transnational coordination, world-making, worldmaking | Comments closed

New Project: MiniVAN for the Visual Analysis of Networks

By jwyg | Published: March 30, 2018

I’m happy to announce that the Public Data Lab has received funding from Sage Publishing to develop a project called MiniVAN. This will be a simple tool to facilitate the visual analysis of networks and online publication of results. Further details are copied below. MiniVAN will be an easy-to-use tool that will support non-specialist social […]

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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.