Tag Archives: dmi16

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 Visualisation, Data Witnessing, Density Design, Digital Methods, Digital Methods Intiative, digital sts, dmi, Human Rights, Politics of Classification, science and technology studies, sts | 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, Data Visualisation, dataviz, Digital Methods, John Berger, research, science and technology studies, sociology of quantification, sts, visual culture, visual literacy | 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.