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Jonathan W. Y. Gray (@jwyg) explores the roles digital data, methods and infrastructures in shaping how we know and live together. He is the author of Public Data Cultures (Polity, 2025). At King’s College London, he is Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities and co-director of the Centre for Digital Culture. He is also co-founder of the Public Data Lab; research associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris); and has taught with the School for Poetic Computation in NYC. More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org.
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Jonathan W. Y. Gray (@jwyg) is a researcher critically and creatively exploring the roles digital data, methods and infrastructures in shaping how we know and live together. His work is grounded in feminist science and technology studies, new media studies, critical theory and philosophy. He is co-director of the Centre for Digital Culture and Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London.
He is author of Public Data Cultures (Polity, 2025) and co-editor of Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (with Martin Eve, MIT Press, 2020) and The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice (with Liliana Bounegru, Amsterdam University Press, 2021). His research has been published in journals such as New Media and Society; Information, Communication & Society; Big Data and Society; and Statistique et Société.
He is co-founder of the Public Data Lab; Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative at the University of Amsterdam; and Research Associate at the médialab at Sciences Po founded by Bruno Latour. He has taught with the School for Poetic Computation in NYC. He is part of the advisory group for the Critical Infrastructure Studies Collective and co-editor of the Digital Studies book series on Amsterdam University Press.
He is Hakka-Chinese-Malaysian-Singaporean-American-Scottish, contributes to the work of several anti-racism and East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) community groups and serves on the committee of King’s College London’s Race Equality Network.
Jonathan has been involved in setting up various digital commons initiatives such as The Public Domain Review and Open Data for Tax Justice. He is an advisor to the Fair Tax Foundation, LSE Impact Blog and MediArXiv.
More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org.
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