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June 03, 2023
forestscapes listening lab at re:publica 23, Berlin, 5-7th June
April 28, 2023
Joining expert advisory group for wikihistories project
March 30, 2023
Article on "What do data portals do? Tracing the politics of online devices for making data public" in Data & Policy
March 27, 2023
Launch event for Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai's Dust Child, 18th April 2023
March 24, 2023
Talk on "Repurposing digital media for collective inquiry. Notes from the Public Data Lab 2017-2023", médialab, Sciences Po, Paris
March 23, 2023
Book chapter on "Articulating Urban Collectives with Data" co-authored with Noortje Marres in book on "Digital (In)justice in the Smart City"
March 14, 2023
Workshop on “Infrastructuring alternatives: Mastodon, the Fediverse and beyond”, 6th April 2023
March 06, 2023
Framing data witnessing
March 02, 2023
Article on "Visual Models for Social Media Image Analysis: Groupings, Engagement, Trends, and Rankings" in International Journal of Communication
February 28, 2023
Investigating fossil fuel greenwashing with Global Witness
February 22, 2023
Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities: Henriette Herz Fellowship and Hackathon in Berlin
February 13, 2023
An update for King's Centre for Digital Culture
February 07, 2023
Introducing forestscapes and open call for forest sounds
January 26, 2023
New article: Staying with the trouble of networks
January 10, 2023
'I, Human – Becoming Visible': collaboration with Moongate Mix
October 30, 2022
Notes on the Fediverse
August 27, 2022
Who and what is East and South East Asian Heritage Month for?
August 18, 2022
Wikipedia Editathon on "East and Southeast Asians in the UK", 15th September 2022
July 21, 2022
Mapping the politics of "nature-based solutions" with Global Witness
July 11, 2022
New article: "Engaged research-led teaching: composing collective inquiry with digital methods and data"
December 17, 2021
"Algorithm Trouble"
December 15, 2021
New project: SUPERB to promote forest restoration and adaptation across Europe
November 12, 2021
Portuguese translation of "The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice" launched at Coda.Br 21
November 09, 2021
“Ways of Listening to Forests” workshop at Critical Zones exhibition, ZKM, 26th November 2021
November 07, 2021
Times Literary Supplement feature on Public Domain Review: “a labyrinth to get lost in”
October 31, 2021
Why open access matters
October 30, 2021
“Face of the virus” report with besea.n on problematic over-representation of East and South East Asian faces in news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic
October 25, 2021
Chapter on “data witnessing” in Routledge Handbook of Humanitarian Communication
October 19, 2021
Workshop on “Interrogating Global Traces of Infrastructure”, 18th November 2021
October 09, 2021
Gathering data on hate crimes against East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) people in the UK
October 03, 2021
Senior Lecturing
September 29, 2021
"Guest People"
September 09, 2021
Investigating infodemic – researchers, students and journalists work together to explore the online circulation of COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracies
August 25, 2021
How might the Global Data Barometer promote critical engagements with data infrastructures?
August 23, 2021
New article: “Journalism aggregators: an analysis of Longform.org”
June 09, 2021
Ways of Listening to Forests
March 23, 2021
New Digital Studies book series on Amsterdam University Press
March 23, 2021
“The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice” now published on Amsterdam University Press
March 16, 2021
“Data Worlds” under contract with MIT Press
January 01, 2021
Happy 10th Birthday Public Domain Review!
December 14, 2020
Call for Papers: “Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research”, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies
November 27, 2020
“Critical Zones” featured in New York Times “Best Art Books of 2020”
October 20, 2020
New Book: “Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access” (MIT Press, 2020)
June 09, 2020
Twelve Challenges for Critical Data Practice
May 22, 2020
Online launch of “Critical Zones” exhibition at ZKM
May 20, 2020
An open letter and open questions about the COVID19 datastore
May 12, 2020
Interview in New Internationalist on air pollution data practices
May 06, 2020
Book Chapter “The Data Epic: Visualisation Practices for Narrating Life and Death at a Distance” in Data Visualization in Society (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press)
January 21, 2020
New Article: “‘Fake News’ as Infrastructural Uncanny”, New Media & Society
December 06, 2019
New piece: “Is “another internet possible”? Inside Labour’s digital infrastructure plans” in Open Democracy
November 07, 2019
Book chapter: “What a difference a dataset makes? Data journalism and/as data activism”, Data in Society, (Policy Press, 2019)
April 26, 2019
New Chinese Translation of Public Data Lab’s “A Field Guide to ‘Fake News’ and Other Information Disorders”
April 25, 2019
Book Chapter: “Computational Imaginaries: Some Further Remarks on Leibniz, Llull and Rethinking the History of Calculating Machines”, DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice (University of Minnesota Press, 2018)
March 05, 2019
New Course on “Data Activism” at King’s College London
February 20, 2019
New paper: “Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project” in Information, Communication & Society
February 08, 2019
Abstract for “Fog of Finance? Visualising Offshore and the Aesthetics of Uncertainty” at MoneyLab #6, University of Siegen
January 29, 2019
Talk: “What Does Data Do? Making Data Public, Keeping Data Private and Other Data Worlds”, Privacy Camp 2019, Brussels
January 26, 2019
New Book Chapter: “Making Data Public? The Open Data Index as Participatory Device” in Good Data (Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures: 2019)
January 22, 2019
Interview on new edition of Data Journalism Handbook
December 12, 2018
Table of contents and chapter previews for “The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice”
August 08, 2018
New project: What can citizen-generated data do? Research collaboration around UN Sustainable Development Goals
July 18, 2018
Panel on “Data Worlds” at EASST2018
July 13, 2018
New Essay: “The Data City as Public Experiment?”
July 11, 2018
New Article: “Data Infrastructure Literacy”, Big Data & Society
June 26, 2018
New Project: “Save Our Air”
May 01, 2018
Japanese Translation of “A Field Guide to ‘Fake News’ and Other Information Disorders”
April 24, 2018
New Article: “A Reality Check(list) for Digital Methods”, New Media & Society
April 20, 2018
New Article: “Three Aspects of Data Worlds”, Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy
March 30, 2018
New Project: MiniVAN for the Visual Analysis of Networks
February 16, 2018
Panels on data journalism and climate change at International Journalism Festival in Perugia, 11-15th April 2018
January 28, 2018
New Article: “Redistributing Data Worlds: Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Democracy”, Statistique et Société, 5(3)
January 08, 2018
Publication: A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders
December 20, 2017
New edition of Data Journalism Handbook to explore journalistic interventions in the data society
December 18, 2017
Call for Papers: “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures”, EASST2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK
November 02, 2017
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
October 19, 2017
Preprint on “Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists”, Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies
October 09, 2017
Graph of Total Number of Websites on the Internet (1991-2015)
October 05, 2017
“The Social Lives of Digital Methods: Encounters, Experiments, Interventions” – Call for Participation in Digital Methods Winter School 2018, University of Amsterdam, 8-12th January 2018
October 02, 2017
Joining King’s College London as Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies
June 28, 2017
Panel on “Digital Methods for Public Policy” at International Conference on Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 29th June 2017
April 04, 2017
Hello Public Data Lab
March 30, 2017
New Book Chapter: “Exploring the Narrative Affordances of Graphs with the Iliad” in The Datafied Society, Amsterdam University Press
March 01, 2017
Call for Collaborators: “A Field Guide to Fake News”
February 28, 2017
Talk: “Data Visualisation, Data Experiences and Data Worlds” at Density Design, Politecnico di Milano, 28th February 2017
February 25, 2017
New Network on “Programming as Social Science” (PaSS)
February 21, 2017
Book Chapter: “Ways of Seeing Data” in Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (London, Palgrave Macmillan)
February 17, 2017
Piece in Open Democracy: “How Could a Global Public Database Help to Tackle Corporate Tax Avoidance?”
February 01, 2017
Talk: “Data Work: Bridging Data Journalism and Digital Sociology”, Aalborg University Copenhagen, 7th February 2017
January 31, 2017
Piece on “Datafication and Democracy” in IPPR’s Juncture
December 21, 2016
Call for Papers: “Digital Methods for Public Policy”, International Conference on Public Policy, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, 28-30th June 2017
December 06, 2016
Open Data and Citizen Data Meetup in Barcelona, 7th December 2016
November 12, 2016
Piece on “Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination” in the Public Domain Review
October 26, 2016
Analysing Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Database
October 06, 2016
Digital Methods Winter School 2017 on “Data Infrastructures: Database Stories, Dumps and Query Driven Narratives”, University of Amsterdam, 9-13th January 2017
October 05, 2016
Short Video on Reshaping Data Worlds for AoIR 2016
October 04, 2016
Who Will Shape the Future of the Data Society?
September 30, 2016
Talk: “What Can Data Journalists and Digital Researchers Learn from Each Other?”, University of Miami, 30th September 2016
September 13, 2016
Panel on Data Infrastructures and their Publics at “Evidence and the Politics of Policymaking” Conference, University of Bath, 14th September 2016
September 09, 2016
Prize Fellowship at University of Bath
September 02, 2016
Talk: “Data Infrastructure Literacy”, 4S/EASST, Barcelona
*most recent 100 posts (older posts are available on search engines, web archives, etc)