Category Archives: Data Worlds

“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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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 […]

Also posted in academia, conferences, 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 […]

Also posted in academia, advocacy, data, 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

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, […]

Also posted in academia, actor-network theory, advocacy, data, 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 Article: “Redistributing Data Worlds: Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Democracy”, Statistique et Société, 5(3)

By jwyg | Published: January 28, 2018

I’ve just had an article published in the latest issue of Statistique et Société, a journal dedicated to exploring “how statistics intervenes in society, plays a role that is often unnoticed, and is in turn transformed by it”. The article is titled “Quand les mondes de données sont redistribués : Open Data, infrastructures de données […]

Also posted in academia, data, datajournalism, open access, publications, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Tagged accountability, challenges, civic hacking, data formats, data infrastructure, data infrastructure literacy, data infrastructures, data journalism, data portals, data speak, data work, data worldmaking, data worlds, datasets, democracy, Emmanuel Didier, Geoffrey Bowker, hackathons, hackdays, history of statistics, Ian Hacking, labs, machine readable, open data, open licenses, science and technology studies, Société Française de Statistique, sociology of quantification, sociology of statistics, Statistique et Société, sts, Susan Leigh Star, Theodore Porter, transparency, worldmaking | Comments closed

Call for Papers: “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures”, EASST2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK

By jwyg | Published: December 18, 2017

A call for papers has just been published for our panel on “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures” at EASST2018 which takes place on 25-28th July 2018 at Lancaster University, UK. EASST2018 is the latest edition of the conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. The […]

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Talk: “Between the Worlds: Infrastructures, Standards and Platforms of Fiscal Data”, Workshop on Digital Platforms and Boundary Infrastructures, 2-3rd November 2017, University of Siegen

By jwyg | Published: November 2, 2017

Tomorrow I’ll be giving a talk on “Between the Worlds: Infrastructures, Standards and Platforms of Fiscal Data” at a workshop on Digital Platforms and Boundary Infrastructures at the University of Siegen. The abstract for the talk is copied below. This talk will examine the social life of public data infrastructures online – with a particular […]

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Joining King’s College London as Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies

By jwyg | Published: October 2, 2017

This has been under wraps for a while, but it has just been publicly announced that I’ll be joining the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London as Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies. The department is a world-leading centre for doing social and cultural research both with and about the digital. It is one […]

Also posted in academia, critical theory, data, digital, digital methods, digitalhumanities, networks, open data, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Tagged critical data practice, Critical Data Studies, critical technical practice, data infrastructures, data journalism, Data Visualisation, Digital Methods, information infrastructure studies, internet studies, King's College London, network analysis, networks, New Media Studies, participatory data infrastructures, participatory design, platform studies, science and technology studies, sociology of quantification, software studies | Comments closed

Hello Public Data Lab

By jwyg | Published: April 4, 2017

Apart from working on my Data Worlds book, one of the things that I’ve been doing as part of my Prize Fellowship at the University of Bath is working to set up a new trans-national, trans-institutional Public Data Lab. I’m delighted to announce that Sage Publishing have recently committed to supporting the lab to help […]

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Piece in Open Democracy: “How Could a Global Public Database Help to Tackle Corporate Tax Avoidance?”

By jwyg | Published: February 17, 2017

The following piece was originally published in Open Democracy to coincide with the release of a new research report co-authored with Alex Cobham (Chief Executive, Tax Justice Network) and Richard Murphy (City, University of London) looking at the current state and future prospects of a global public database of corporate accounts. It was also cross-posted on the Tax Justice Network […]

Also posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, history, legalhistory, open data, policy, politics, research, science and technology studies, taxjustice, technology | Tagged Arms Length Principle, BEPS, British East India Company, Capital Requirements Directive, CBCR, country by country reporting, CRD IV, Data Activism, Dodd-Frank, Dutch East India Company, East India Company, G20, G8, Multinational Corporations, OECD, open data, Paolo Cirio, profit shifting, public data, tax base erosion, tax justice, transfer pricing, Unitary Taxation, United Nations | Comments closed

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. Find out more here. He is on Twitter at @jwyg.

Category Archives: Data Worlds

“Data Worlds” under contract with MIT Press

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)

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

New Article: “Redistributing Data Worlds: Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Democracy”, Statistique et Société, 5(3)

Call for Papers: “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures”, EASST2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK

Talk: “Between the Worlds: Infrastructures, Standards and Platforms of Fiscal Data”, Workshop on Digital Platforms and Boundary Infrastructures, 2-3rd November 2017, University of Siegen

Joining King’s College London as Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies

Piece in Open Democracy: “How Could a Global Public Database Help to Tackle Corporate Tax Avoidance?”

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