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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, material participation, Media Studies, open data, Open Data Index, Open Knowledge International, participation, performativity, science and technology studies, sociology of quantification, sts, valuation | Comments closed

New Essay: “The Data City as Public Experiment?”

By jwyg | Published: July 13, 2018

An essay on “The Data City as Public Experiment?” that I wrote with Noortje Marres (Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick) has just come out in London Ideas, a new publication from the Centre for London. You can download a PDF of the piece here. The précis is as follows: Cities have long been […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, data, design, digital, digital methods, publications, science and technology studies, visualisation | Also tagged 596 Acres, Air pollution, Anne Helmond, big data, Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, Centre for London, Citizen Sense, citizen sensing, city data, Data Activism, data city, Data Sublime, data walking, Digital Methods, digital sociology, dioramas, experiments in participation, Geoffrey Bowker, internet of things, Issue Networks, Living Lots NYC, London Ideas, Making Sense, Moritz Stefaner, Nerea Calvillo, Noortje Marres, open data, Orit Halpern, panoramas, platformisation, platforms, Responsible Data, science and technology studies, Selfie City, smart city, Sohei Nishino, Susan Lei, tax justice, University of Warwick, Will Davies | Comments closed

Talks at “Policy-Making in the Big Data Era” conference, University of Cambridge, 17th June 2015

By jwyg | Published: June 14, 2015

On Wednesday I will give three papers at the Policy-Making in the Big Data Era conference at the University of Cambridge. One paper will argue for a broadening of the politics of public information from a focus on the disclosure of datasets to the reshaping of data infrastructures. Another will look at the use and […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, advocacy, conferences, data, datajournalism, digital, digital methods, digitalhumanities, events, open data, openknowledge, policy, research, talks | Also tagged big data, bigdata, bigdata4policy, Controversy Mapping, data infrastructures, data journalism, data revolution, Digital Journalism, Digital Methods, dmi, information infrastructures, internet studies, Issue Mapping, network analysis, new media, open data, policy, science and technology studies, sts | 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.