Tag Archives: data journalism

Call for Collaborators: “A Field Guide to Fake News”

By jwyg | Published: March 1, 2017

We’re pleased to announce a new project to create “A Field Guide to Fake News”, led by myself, Liliana Bounegru and Tommaso Venturini. It will be launched at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia in April 2017. In the wake of concerns about the role of “fake news” in relation to the US elections, the […]

Posted in academia, data, datajournalism, digital, digital methods, open data, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Also tagged Amsterdam University Press, data sprint, Digital Methods, dmi, Donald Trump, fake news, filter bubbles, hyperlink analysis, ijf17, International Journalism Festival, memes, Public Data Lab, science and technology studies, sts, trackers, US elections, visual network analysis | Comments closed

Piece on “Datafication and Democracy” in IPPR’s Juncture

By jwyg | Published: January 31, 2017

The following piece was originally published in Juncture, IPPR’s journal of politics and ideas, on 21st December 2016. Digital information systems have come to play a central role in how we organise and imagine collective life in the 21st century. The limits of our world are demarcated by electronic equipment scanning the movements of the […]

Posted in academia, data, digital, history, open data, policy, privacy, research, science and technology studies | Also tagged Adam Curtis, Air pollution, algorithmic accountability, Algorithmic Inequality, Algorithms, Black Mirror, Bruno Latour, citizen data, climate change, Commodification, Controversy Mapping, Cyberpunk, Data Activism, data infrastructures, data revolution, Datafication, David Eggers, Donald MacKenzie, Fracking, Gender, George Orwell, History and Philosophy of Science, Human Rights, Hypernormalisation, John Dewey, mega-leaks, Minority Report, Noortje Marres, open data, participatory design, Privacy, research, science and technology studies, Science Fiction, sts, The Circle, transparency, Walter Lippmann | Comments closed

Digital Methods Winter School 2017 on “Data Infrastructures: Database Stories, Dumps and Query Driven Narratives”, University of Amsterdam, 9-13th January 2017

By jwyg | Published: October 6, 2016

I’m involved in co-organising the 2017 edition of the annual Digital Methods Initiative Winter School which is on the theme of “Data Infrastructures: Database Stories, Dumps and Query Driven Narratives”. I’ll be speaking at the event alongside Professor Geoffrey Bowker (School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine), who is one of the […]

Posted in academia, data, datajournalism, digital, digital methods, digitalhumanities, events, open data, research, science and technology studies | Also tagged Digital Methods, digital methods initiative, DMI17, Geoffrey Bowker, new media, science and technology studies, Social Media, Sorting Things Out, sts, Susan Leigh Star | Comments closed

Talk: “What Can Data Journalists and Digital Researchers Learn from Each Other?”, University of Miami, 30th September 2016

By jwyg | Published: September 30, 2016

Today Liliana Bounegru and I gave a talk on what data journalists and digital researchers can learn from each other. This is part of a symposium on “Digital Humanities + Data Journalism” organised by Alberto Cairo at the University of Miami. Our talk was based on our work both in the fields of data journalism […]

Posted in academia, data, datajournalism, datajournalismhandbook, digitalhumanities, events, open data, research, visualisation | Also tagged algorithmic accountability, altmetrics, computational journalism, computational social science, computer assisted reporting, cultural analytics, culturomics, Data Visualisation, dataviz, ddj, dh, digital humanities, Digital Methods, digital sociology, interactive media, networks, visual culture | Comments closed

Panel on Data Infrastructures and their Publics at “Evidence and the Politics of Policymaking” Conference, University of Bath, 14th September 2016

By jwyg | Published: September 13, 2016

As part of my new role as Prize Fellow at the University of Bath, I’m organising a panel on data infrastructures and their publics at a conference on “Evidence and the Politics of Policymaking” this coming Wednesday 14th September 2016. The panel will feature new research and reflections on this topic from: Liliana Bounegru (University […]

Posted in academia, bath, conferences, data, datajournalism, digital methods, events, policy, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Also tagged citizen data, Controversy Mapping, data infrastructure literacy, data infrastructures, Digital Methods, evidence, Liliana Bounegru, open data, participatory design, public policy, Sabine Niederer, sts, Tommaso Venturini, University of Bath | Comments closed

New Report: “Changing What Counts: How Can Citizen-Generated and Civil Society Data Be Used as an Advocacy Tool to Change Official Data Collection?”

By jwyg | Published: March 3, 2016

A new report that I co-authored for Open Knowledge and the CIVICUS DataShift initiative has just been released today, following on from a discussion paper I wrote on “Democratising the Data Revolution”. It is titled “Changing What Counts: How Can Citizen-Generated and Civil Society Data Be Used as an Advocacy Tool to Change Official Data […]

Posted in advocacy, data, datajournalism, open data, openknowledge, publications, research | Also tagged advocacy, citizen data, citizen generated data, civil society, civil society data, data revolution, open data, public information | Comments closed

New Report: “Open Budget Data: Mapping the Landscape”

By jwyg | Published: September 3, 2015

How might changing the way that information about public money is organised, circulated and utilised in society shape the character of democratic engagement and political accountability in decision-making about public funds? How are ideals from the open data movement gaining traction amongst advocates and practitioners of financial transparency, to what end, and with what consequences? […]

Posted in data, datajournalism, digital methods, open data, policy, publications, research | Also tagged Data Activism, Digital Methods, digital methods initiative, digital sts, financial transparency, follow the money, gephi, Issue Mapping, network analysis, open budget data, open budgets, open data, open knowledge, openness, public money | Comments closed

Talks at “Policy-Making in the Big Data Era” conference, University of Cambridge, 17th June 2015

By jwyg | Published: June 14, 2015

On Wednesday I will give three papers at the Policy-Making in the Big Data Era conference at the University of Cambridge. One paper will argue for a broadening of the politics of public information from a focus on the disclosure of datasets to the reshaping of data infrastructures. Another will look at the use and […]

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Dr. Jonathan Gray is 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. More about his work can be found here. He is on Twitter at @jwyg.