Publications

Books
Peer-Reviewed Articles
Book Chapters
White Papers & Working Papers
Essays & Public Writing
Book Reviews

Note: I try to make sure that all of my publications are freely available online through green or gold open access. If there is anything that you can’t find please try this list of links. If you still can’t find it, please get in touch. If you’d like to encourage other researchers to open up their research, you can install the open access button.

Books

• Gray, J. (in preparation) Data Worlds: The New Politics of Public Information.
• Eve, M. & Gray, J. (eds) (forthcoming) Old Traditions and New Technologies: The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Open Scholarly Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Gray, J. & Bounegru, L. (eds) (forthcoming) The Data Journalism Handbook.. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
  • New version in preparation. Will be available as free, open access PDF. Details and pre-order for print version here.
• Bounegru, L., Gray, J., Venturini, T. & Mauri, M. (2018) A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders. Amsterdam: Public Data Lab.
  • Translated into Japanese with Spanish translation forthcoming.
  • Open access PDF available at: fakenews.publicdatalab.org. DOI: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1136271. All assets available on GitHub.
  • “A remarkable new document” – Nieman Lab
  • “A crucial set of skills for understanding media consumption in the new era” – Columbia Journalism Review
  • “Important new research” – Adam Thomas, Director, European Journalism Centre
  • “A great project” – Charlie Beckett, Professor and Director of Polis, London School of Economics
• Gray, J., Bounegru, L. & Chambers, L. (eds) (2012) The Data Journalism Handbook. Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media.
  • Translated into Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukranian.
  • “A great practical start” – BBC Academy.
  • “A unique journalistic collaboration” – The Guardian.
  • “An excellent book” – Knight Digital Media Center, University of Southern California.
  • “Inspiring and educational” – ReadWrite.
  • “Immensely valuable… read it now” – Significance magazine of The Royal Statistical Society and The American Statistical Association.
  • “An excellent introduction” – Statistics Norway.
  • “Seminal” – Roselyn Du, Hong Kong Baptist University.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Gray, J., Gerlitz, C. & Bounegru, L. (2018) “Data Infrastructure Literacy”. Big Data & Society. Open Access PDF: 10.1177/2053951718786316
• Gray, J. (2018) “Three Aspects of Data Worlds”. Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy. Issue 1. Open Access PDF and HTML.
• Venturini, T., Bounegru, L., Gray, J., & Rogers, R. (2018). “A reality check(list) for digital methods”. New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/1461444818769236. Preprint: 10.2139/ssrn.3168664
• Gray, J. (2017).“Quand les mondes de données sont redistribués: Open Data, infrastructures de données et démocratie” [“Redistributing Data Worlds: Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Democracy”]. Statistique et Société, 5(3), 29–34. French PDF. English PDF.
• Bounegru, L., Venturini, T., Gray, J., Jacomy, M. (2016) “Narrating Networks: Exploring the Affordances of Networks as Storytelling Devices in Journalism”, Digital Journalism. Open Access PDF: 10.1080/21670811.2016.1186497
  • “Invaluable analytical study” – Alan Liu, Distinguished Professor, Department of English, UC Santa Barbara.
• Borgesius, F., Gray, J. & van Eechoud, M. (2016) “Open Data, Privacy and Fair Information Principles: Towards a Balancing Framework”, The Berkeley Technology Law Journal. 30: 3. Open Access PDF.
• Lawson, S., Gray, J. & Mauri, M. (2016) “Opening the Black Box of Scholarly Communication Funding: A Public Data Infrastructure for Financial Flows in Academic Publishing”. Open Library of Humanities. 2(1), p.e10. Open Access HTML and PDF: 10.16995/olh.72
  • “Rigorous, balanced analysis” – Professor Stephen Curry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London.
• Goldacre, B. & Gray, J. (2016) “Open Trials: Towards a Collaborative Open Database of All Available Information on All Clinical Trials”. Trials. 2016. 17:164. Open Access HTML and PDF: 10.1186/s13063-016-1290-8

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Book Chapters

• Gray, J. & Bounegru, L. (forthcoming 2019) “What a Difference a Dataset Makes? Data Journalism And/As Data Activism.” In Data in Society: Challenging Statistics in an Age of Globalisation, J. Evans, S. Ruane and H. Southall (eds). Bristol: The Policy Press. Preprint: 10.5281/zenodo.1415450.
• Gray, J. (forthcoming 2019) “Infrastructural Experiments and the Politics of Open Access.” In M. Eve and J. Gray (eds) Old Traditions and New Technologies: The Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Open Scholarly Communication. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Gray, J. (forthcoming 2019) “The Data Epic: Visualisation Practices for Narrating Life and Death at a Distance.” In H. Kennedy and M. Engebretsen (eds) Data Visualization in Society. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
• Gray, J. & Lammerhirt D. (forthcoming 2018) “Making Data Public? The Open Data Index as Participatory Device” In A. Daly, K. Devitt and M. Mann (eds) Good Data. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures.
• Gray, J. (forthcoming 2018) “Computational Imaginaries: Some Concluding Remarks on Leibniz, Llull, and Rethinking the History of Calculating Machines.” In DIA-LOGOS: Ramon Llull’s Method of Thought and Artistic Practice, A. Vega, P. Weibel, and S. Zielinski (eds). Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
• Venturini, T., Jacomy, M., Bounegru, L. & Gray, J. (2018) “Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists.” In The Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies, S. Eldridge II and B. Franklin (eds). Abingdon: Routledge Preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=3043912.
• Venturini, T., Bounegru, L., Jacomy, M., & Gray, J. (2017) “How to Tell Stories with Networks: Exploring the Narrative Affordances of Graphs with the Iliad.” In The Datafied Society: Studying Culture through Data, M. Schaefer and K. Van Es (eds). Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Open Access PDF: 10.5117/9789462981362.
• Gray, J., Bounegru, L., Milan, S. & Ciuccarelli, P. (2016) “Ways of Seeing Data: Towards a Critical Literacy for Data Visualisations as Research Objects and Research Devices”. In Sebastian Kubitschko and Anne Kaun (eds.), Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=2846398
• Gray, J. (2012) “Hamann, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein on the Language of Philosophers”. In Lisa Marie Anderson (ed.), Hamann and the Tradition. Northwestern University Press. Preprint: ssrn.com/abstract=2407424.
  • The volume offers “a good picture of the current state of the scholarship on this fascinating but still little-appreciated figure of the German 18th century”, according to a review in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  • “A most valuable contribution to Hamann studies” – Goethe Yearbook

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White Papers & Working Papers

• Cobham, A., Gray, J. & Murphy, R. (2017) “What Do They Pay? Towards a Public Database to Account for the Economic Activities and Tax Contributions of Multinational Corporations”. City Political Economy Research Centre (CITYPERC) Working Paper Series, 2017/01.
• Gray, J., Lammerhirt D., & Bounegru L. (2016) “Changing What Counts: How Can Citizen-Generated and Civil Society Data Be Used as an Advocacy Tool to Change Official Data Collection?.” Open Knowledge International and the CIVICUS DataShift.
• Gray, J. (2015) “Democratising the Data Revolution: A Discussion Paper”. Open Knowledge International.
• Gray, J. & Davies, T. (2015) “Fighting Phantom Firms in the UK: From Opening Up Datasets to Reshaping Data Infrastructures?”. Working paper presented at the Open Data Research Symposium at the 3rd International Open Government Data Conference in Ottawa, on May 27th 2015
• Gray, J. (2015) “Open Budget Data: Mapping the Landscape”. Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam), the Global Initiative for Financial Transparency (GIFT) and Open Knowledge International.
• Gray, J. (2014) “Towards a Genealogy of Open Data”. Working paper given at the General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research in Glasgow, 3-6th September 2014.

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Essays & Public Writing

Following is a selection of some recent press pieces and a few older essays. Further articles can be found via author profiles on The Guardian, Open Democracy and Journalisted.

• “The Data City as Public Experiment?” (with Noortje Marres), London Ideas, 13th July 2018
• “What does fake news tell us about life in the digital age? Not what you might expect”, NiemanLab, 6th April 2017
• “How Could a Global Public Database Help to Tackle Corporate Tax Avoidance?”, Open Democracy, 17th February 2017
  • “Let me count the ways” – Ellen Miller, Co-Founder, Sunlight Foundation
• “Datafication and Democracy”, Juncture, 21st December 2016
  • “Essential reading” – Think Tank Review
  • “A great read … pointing towards a critical and ethical agenda for ‘data work’” – Tim Davies, Research Associate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
• “‘Let us Calculate!’: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination”, The Public Domain Review, 10th November 2016
  • “Nice article on Lull, Leibniz & combinatorics” – Dennis Duncan, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford
• “Who will shape the future of the data society?”, cross-posted on LSE Impact Blog, the International Open Data Conference blog and Open Knowledge International blog, 5th October 2016.
  • “Lots of good questions in here” – Alex Howard, Senior Analyst, Sunlight Foundation
• “It’s time to stand up to greedy academic publishers” [Note: title chosen by Guardian editorial team], The Guardian, 18th April 2016
• “Making Climate Negotiations Public”, Open Democracy (with Tommaso Venturini and Rufus Pollock), 9th December 2015
• “A Data Revolution for Whom?”, Open Democracy, 10th July 2015
• “Dutch student protests ignite movement against management of universities”, The Guardian, 17th March 2015
  • “Excellent piece” – Andrew McGettigan, Author of The Great University Gamble: Money, Markets and the Future of Higher Education
• “Five ways open data can boost democracy around the world”, The Guardian, 20th February 2015
• “Secret government contracts stop citizens knowing if outsourcing works”, The Guardian, 18th August 2014
• “Secret government contracts undermine our democracies. Let’s stop them”, OpenDemocracy, 27th February 2014.
• “Britain ‘shines light of transparency’ on secret lobbying. Just kidding.”, OpenDemocracy, 28th January 2014.
• “Mapping the Cultural Commons”, Cblog, French Ministry of Culture and Communication, 15th November 2013.
• “Open Government Partnership Should Foster Accountability and Social Justice”, The Guardian, 4th November 2013.
  • “A great and critical piece on open government” – Evgeny Morozov, Author of To Save Everything, Click Here
• “Recomposing Scholarship”, London School of Economics ‘Impact of Social Sciences’ Blog, 25th October 2013.
  • “Good piece on what matters” – Mary Margaret McCabe, Professor of Ancient Philosophy, King’s College London
• “The Genius and the Soil: Open Access and the Politics of Information”, Red Pepper, April-May 2013 (Issue 189).
• “The Future of Memory”, The Junket, 16th July 2012
• “What Data Can and Cannot Do”, The Guardian, 31st May 2012.
  • “Brilliant must read article” – Owen Barder, Senior Fellow, Center for Global Development
  • “Smart piece” – Kenneth Cukier, Data Editor, The Economist
• “On Archiving Everything: Borges, Calvino, Google”, OWNI.eu, 25th August 2011.

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Book Reviews

• “On Critical Theories and Digital Media”. Review of David Berry’s Critical Theory and the Digital (London: Bloomsbury, 2014) and Christian Fuchs’ Social Media: A Critical Introduction (London: Sage, 2014) for Krisis: Journal of Contemporary Philosophy.
• Review of Martin Eve’s Open Access and the Humanities: Contexts, Controversies and the Future (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014) for LSE Review of Books, 7th November 2014.
• “The Snowden Files: so much more than state surveillance” – a review of Luke Harding’s The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man for OpenDemocracy, 6th February 2014.

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