Tag Archives: alternative facts

New edition of Data Journalism Handbook to explore journalistic interventions in the data society

By jwyg | Published: December 20, 2017

The first edition of The Data Journalism Handbook has been widely used and widely cited by students, practitioners and researchers alike, serving as both textbook and sourcebook for an emerging field. It has been translated into over 12 languages – including Arabic, Chinese, Czech, French, Georgian, Greek, Italian, Macedonian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian – […]

Posted in academia, books, data, datajournalism, datajournalismhandbook, digital methods, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies | Also tagged Agre, algorithmic accountability, collaborative journalism, computer assisted reporting, critical data practice, Critical Theory, crowdsourcing, data infrastructures, data journalism, Data Journalism Handbook, Data Visualisation, ddj, Digital Methods, experiments in participation, fake news, genealogy, post-truth, programmer journalists, science and technology studies, social media data | Comments closed

Talk: “Data Visualisation, Data Experiences and Data Worlds” at Density Design, Politecnico di Milano, 28th February 2017

By jwyg | Published: February 28, 2017

I was invited to give the opening address at the 2017 graduate exhibition of Density Design, Politecnico di Milano, one of the world’s leading research labs focusing on the visualisation of complex phenomenon. This year’s graduates produced a very interesting set of projects based on both official data and web data – on topics from […]

Posted in academia, data, digital, digital methods, isotype, neurath, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Also tagged data experiences, Data Visualisation, data work, data worlds, Density Design, fake news, Isotype Institue, John Berger, Marie Neurath, network analysis, networks, Otto Neurath, quantification, sociology of quantification, Theodore Porter, thin description | Comments closed

Jonathan Gray is Senior 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.