Author Archives: jwyg

Ways of Listening to Forests

By jwyg | Published: June 9, 2021

I’m co-organising a project on “Ways of Listening to Forests” with the Public Data Lab exploring different practices and projects of forest listening, in association with the Critical Zones exhibition at ZKM curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel. You can find out more about the project here and here’s an excerpt from the project description: How can […]

Posted in academia, Bruno Latour, climatechange, digital, digital methods, environment, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies | Tagged Anna Tsing, Arts of Noticing, Bruno Latour, Critical Zones, Field Recording, Forest Bathing, Forest Listening, Forests, Peter Weibel, sensing, Shinrin Yoku, Sonification, Sound Walks, storytelling, Trees, ZKM | Comments closed

New Digital Studies book series on Amsterdam University Press

By jwyg | Published: March 23, 2021

To coincide with the launch of The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice, today we’re also launching a new Digital Studies book series on Amsterdam University Press. This is co-edited together with Tobias Blanke, Liliana Bounegru, Carolin Gerlitz, Sabine Niederer and Richard Rogers. We are particularly pleased to have this series based at […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, books, data, data activism, data aesthetics, Data Journalism Handbook, data politics, datajournalism, datajournalismhandbook, digital, digital journalism, digital methods, digitalhumanities, media studies, open access, research, science and technology studies | Tagged Anita Say Chan, Carolin Gerlitz, Claudia Aradau, Digital Studies, Jean Burgess, Jennifer Gabrys, Liliana Bounegru, Payal Arora, Richard Rogers, Sabine Niederer, Taina Bucher, Tobias Blanke, Wendy Chun | Comments closed

“The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice” now published on Amsterdam University Press

By jwyg | Published: March 23, 2021

The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice (which I co-edited with Liliana Bounegru) is out today on Amsterdam University Press (AUP) as part of a new Digital Studies book series which is also launching today. It is also available as an open access PDF which you can find linked to from the book’s […]

Posted in academia, Bruno Latour, data, data aesthetics, Data Journalism Handbook, data politics, datajournalism, datajournalismhandbook, digital journalism, digital methods, media studies, open access, publications, research, science and technology studies, teaching | Tagged Amsterdam University Press, assembling data, Bruno Latour, data journalism, Data Journalism Handbook, Liliana Bounegru, Public Data Lab, Sarah Sze | Comments closed

“Data Worlds” under contract with MIT Press

By jwyg | Published: March 16, 2021

I’m pleased to announce that my book on Data Worlds: The Politics Open and Public Data in the Digital Age is now under contract at MIT Press. 🎊 📖 The book has been a long time in the making and builds on over a decade of research and engagements with public data practices, cultures, projects […]

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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 […]

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“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 […]

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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 […]

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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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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.