Tag Archives: data journalism

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, civic hacking, data formats, data infrastructure, data infrastructure literacy, data infrastructures, 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

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, alternative facts, collaborative journalism, computer assisted reporting, critical data practice, Critical Theory, crowdsourcing, data infrastructures, 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

Preprint on “Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists”, Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies

By jwyg | Published: October 19, 2017

We’ve recently uploaded a new preprint for a book chapter on “Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists”, which is to be published in the forthcoming Routledge Handbook to Developments in Digital Journalism Studies (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018) edited by Scott Eldridge II and Bob Franklin. This is part of a series of collaborations with Tommaso Venturini, […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, datajournalism, digital, digital methods, networks, Public Data Lab, publications, research, science and technology studies, sociology, visualisation | Also tagged data storytelling, gephi, graphs, multimodal, network analysis, network literacies, Public Data Lab, storytelling, storytelling devices, styles of reasoning, visual network analysis, visual network exploration | Comments closed

Joining King’s College London as Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies

By jwyg | Published: October 2, 2017

This has been under wraps for a while, but it has just been publicly announced that I’ll be joining the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London as Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies. The department is a world-leading centre for doing social and cultural research both with and about the digital. It is one […]

Posted in academia, critical theory, data, Data Worlds, digital, digital methods, digitalhumanities, networks, open data, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Also tagged critical data practice, Critical Data Studies, critical technical practice, data infrastructures, Data Visualisation, Digital Methods, information infrastructure studies, internet studies, King's College London, network analysis, networks, New Media Studies, participatory data infrastructures, participatory design, platform studies, science and technology studies, sociology of quantification, software studies | 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 imaginaries, data infrastructure literacy, data infrastructures, 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

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

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.

Tag Archives: data journalism

New Article: “Redistributing Data Worlds: Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Democracy”, Statistique et Société, 5(3)

Preprint on “Visual Network Exploration for Data Journalists”, Routledge Handbook of Developments in Digital Journalism Studies

Joining King’s College London as Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies

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

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

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

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