Tag Archives: civic hacking

Panel on “Data Worlds” at EASST2018

By jwyg | Published: July 18, 2018

I’m co-convening a panel on “Data Worlds? Public Imagination and Public Experimentation with Data Infrastructures” at EASST2018 – the latest edition of the conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology – which takes place on 25-28th July 2018 at Lancaster University, UK. The panel is organised by several colleagues at the Public […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, digital, digital methods, media studies, open data, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, sociology, talks | Also tagged apps, Carolin Gerlitz, citizen data, citizen generated data, citizenship, civic tech, codesign, collaboration, coproduction, Data Activism, data infrastructures, data worldmaking, data worlds, digital ethnography, EASST2018, ethnography, Evelyn Ruppert, flagging, Github, information infrastructure studies, information infrastructures, infrastructure studies, issues, Noortje Marres, open data, participatory design, platform studies, Privacy, public data, Public Data Lab, public experiments, science and technology studies, situational analytics, sociology of quantification, sociology of statistics, statistics, sts, Tommaso Venturini, world-making, worldmaking | 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 […]

Posted in academia, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, open access, publications, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Also tagged accountability, challenges, 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

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.