Tag Archives: material participation

Twelve Challenges for Critical Data Practice

By jwyg | Published: June 9, 2020

As we’re in the final stages of editorial for the Data Journalism Handbook (forthcoming on Amsterdam University Press) Liliana Bounegru and I are curious to hear from those who have read and/or used the online beta of the book. In particular we’re curious to learn about any projects or activities which were prompted by the “Twelve […]

Posted in books, data, Data Journalism Handbook, data politics, datajournalism, datajournalismhandbook, digital journalism, open access, projects, Public Data Lab, research, science and technology studies | Also tagged algorithm studies, critical data practice, Critical Data Studies, data as relations, data infrastructures, Data Journalism Handbook, participation, uncertainty, visual culture | Comments closed

New Book Chapter: “Making Data Public? The Open Data Index as Participatory Device” in Good Data (Amsterdam, Institute of Network Cultures: 2019)

By jwyg | Published: January 26, 2019

A book chapter on “Making Data Public? The Open Data Index as Participatory Device” co-authored with Danny Lämmerhirt has just been published in a new open access book on Good Data. The book is part of the Theory on Demand series of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam, founded by media theorist and activist […]

Posted in academia, advocacy, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, digital, media studies, open access, policy, publications, research, science and technology studies | Also tagged Critical Data Studies, Data Activism, data infrastructures, data journalism, enumerated entities, enumeration, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, Media Studies, open data, Open Data Index, Open Knowledge International, participation, performativity, science and technology studies, sociology of quantification, statactivism, sts, valuation | 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.