Tag Archives: Medialab

Publication: A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders

By jwyg | Published: January 8, 2018

Today sees the launch of A Field Guide to “Fake News” and Other Information Disorders, a new free and open access resource to help students, journalists and researchers investigate misleading content, memes, trolling and other phenomena associated with recent debates around “fake news”. The field guide responds to an increasing demand for understanding the interplay […]

Posted in academia, data, datajournalism, digital, digital journalism, digital methods, open access, Public Data Lab, publications, research, science and technology studies, visualisation | Also tagged A Field Guide to Fake News, Density Design, Digital Journalism, Digital Methods, digital methods initiative, Digital Methods Winter School 2018, École Normale Supérieure of Lyon, First Draft, King's College London, open access, Public Data Lab, Sciences Po, Shorenstein Center, TANTLab, Techno-Anthropology | 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 journalism, 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, open data, participatory data infrastructures, participatory design, platformisation, Public Data Lab, Sage Publishing, science and technology studies, sharing economy, sociotechnical systems | Comments closed

Prize Fellowship at University of Bath

By jwyg | Published: September 9, 2016

This month I’ll be starting a new Prize Fellowship at the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath. The Prize Fellowships mark fifty years since the founding of the university in 1966. This is a fantastic opportunity for me to develop the research agenda that I’ve been working on around the politics of […]

Posted in academia, bath, data, datactive, datajournalism, digital, digital methods, digitalhumanities, open data, openknowledge, policy, research, science and technology studies | Also tagged digital methods initiative, Institute for Policy Research, University of Bath | Comments closed

Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po

By jwyg | Published: January 17, 2016

For the next few months I’ll be a Visiting Researcher at Sciences Po in Paris, collaborating on several research initiatives with the médialab led by Professor Bruno Latour and the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA). This will include mapping controversies around the taxation of multinational companies, as well as developing research on data infrastructures […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, datajournalism, digital methods, open data, research, science and technology studies, taxjustice | Also tagged Bruno Latour, data infrastructures, public information, Sciences Po, Tax | 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.