Tag Archives: Data Visualisation

New paper: “Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project” in Information, Communication & Society

By jwyg | Published: February 20, 2019

Information, Communication & Society have just published an article that I wrote on “Data witnessing: attending to injustice with data in Amnesty International’s Decoders project”. The article is open access and the abstract and full reference are copied below. This piece would not have been possible without the time and input from the list of […]

Posted in academia, data, data activism, publications, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Also tagged Amnesty Decoders, Amnesty International, Critical Data Studies, Data, Data Activism, data and society, data infrastructures, data practices, data publics, data studies, Data Witnessing, data work, data worlds, Decoders, digital witnessing, Media Studies, media witnessing, New Media Studies, science and technology studies | 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, Data Journalism Handbook, ddj, Digital Methods, experiments in participation, fake news, genealogy, post-truth, programmer journalists, science and technology studies, social media data | Comments closed

Graph of Total Number of Websites on the Internet (1991-2015)

By jwyg | Published: October 9, 2017

I was recently looking for a chart illustrating the estimated growth of the total number of websites online, while preparing for a series of lectures I’m giving on digital methods (including reviewing cultural and social histories of the web, as well as different ways of doing research both with and about hyperlinks and search engines). […]

Posted in data, design, digital methods, visualisation | Also tagged history of the internet, hyperlinks, Tim Berners-Lee, web pages, world wide web | 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 journalism, 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

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 alternative facts, data experiences, 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

Book Chapter: “Ways of Seeing Data” in Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (London, Palgrave Macmillan)

By jwyg | Published: February 21, 2017

A book chapter that I co-authored on “Ways of Seeing Data: Towards a Critical Literacy for Data Visualizations as Research Objects and Research Devices” has just been published in Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research (London: Palgrave Macmillan). It was written with Liliana Bounegru (University of Groningen / University of Ghent), Stefania Milan (University […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, datajournalism, design, digital, digital methods, history, humanities, infographics, isotype, open data, publications, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Also tagged critical literacy, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Data, History and Philosophy of Science, Infographics, John Berger, Media Studies, Methodological Reflexivity, Narrativity, New Media Studies, public spending, sts, Tufte, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Seeing Data | Comments closed

Analysing Amnesty International’s Urgent Action Database

By jwyg | Published: October 26, 2016

Amnesty International have just published the results of a data sprint about their historical database of Urgent Actions, which I coordinated as part of the Digital Methods Initiative Summer School 2016. A selection of outcomes published by Amnesty International can be found here. A selection of further materials from the Summer School project can be […]

Posted in academia, advocacy, data, design, digital, digital methods, science and technology studies, visualisation | Also tagged Amnesty Decoders, Amnesty International, AmnestyDecoders, Data Activism, Data Analysis, Data Witnessing, Density Design, Digital Methods, Digital Methods Intiative, digital sts, dmi, dmi16, Human Rights, Politics of Classification, science and technology studies, sts | 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 journalism, dataviz, ddj, dh, digital humanities, Digital Methods, digital sociology, interactive media, networks, visual culture | Comments closed

Talk: “Ways of Seeing Data: Towards a Critical Literacy for Data Visualisations as Research Objects and Devices”, University of Amsterdam, 14th January 2016

By jwyg | Published: January 15, 2016

Yesterday I gave a presentation on “Ways of Seeing Data” at the Digital Methods Winter School Mini-Conference at the University of Amsterdam. The presentation was based on a forthcoming publication co-authored with Liliana Bounegru, Stefania Milan and Paolo Ciuccarelli in which we propose a heuristic framework for advancing critical literacies to read, understand, create and […]

Posted in academia, conferences, data, datajournalism, digital methods, history, humanities, infographics, neurath, open data, publications, research, science and technology studies, technology | Also tagged critical literacy, data infrastructure, dataviz, Digital Methods, dmi16, John Berger, research, science and technology studies, sociology of quantification, sts, visual culture, visual literacy | Comments closed

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.