Tag Archives: John Berger

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 Visualisation, data work, data worlds, Density Design, fake news, Isotype Institue, 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, Data Visualisation, History and Philosophy of Science, Infographics, Media Studies, Methodological Reflexivity, Narrativity, New Media Studies, public spending, sts, Tufte, Ways of Seeing, Ways of Seeing Data | 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, dmi16, 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.