Tag Archives: data imaginaries

New Course on “Data Activism” at King’s College London

By jwyg | Published: March 5, 2019

This academic year we’ve got a new graduate course on “data activism” at King’s College London, which I’ve been teaching this semester. The course supports students to critically engage with emerging practices associated with data activism, drawing on perspectives from science and technology studies, (new) media studies and data studies. Along with other readings, it […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, advocacy, data, data activism, datactive, design, digital, digital methods, digitalhumanities, higher education, research, science and technology studies, teaching, visualisation | Also tagged Amnesty Decoders, Amnesty International, citizen generated data, Critical Data Studies, Data Activism, data infrastructures, data justice, data revolution, data worlds, DATACTIVE, Datafication, Density Design, design studies, engaged research, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, imaginaries, MA, OpenStreetMap, participatory data infrastructures, participatory design, quantification, science and technology studies, sociology of quantification, Sorting Things Out, Surveillance | 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 […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, advocacy, bath, climatechange, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, design, digital, digital methods, energy, environment, infographics, open data, openknowledge, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, sociology, technology, visualisation | Also tagged automation, born digital data, critical technical practice, Data Activism, data infrastructure literacy, data infrastructures, data journalism, Data Literacy, data practices, data publics, data revolution, data work, data worlds, Datafication, Digital Methods, Digital Methods Intiative, digital rights, Field Guide to Fake News, infrastructuring, International Journalism Festival, Medialab, open data, participatory data infrastructures, participatory design, platformisation, Public Data Lab, Sage Publishing, science and technology studies, sharing economy, sociotechnical systems | 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.