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New Article: “Data Infrastructure Literacy”, Big Data & Society

By jwyg | Published: July 11, 2018

An article on “Data infrastructure literacy” that I co-authored with with Carolin Gerlitz and Liliana Bounegru has just been published in Big Data & Society. The abstract and full reference for the article are copied below. The article is open access and you can download the PDF here. Data infrastructure literacy Jonathan Gray, Carolin Gerlitz, […]

Posted in academia, actor-network theory, advocacy, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, digital journalism, digital methods, digitalhumanities, open access, open data, publications, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Also tagged Alain Desrosières, algorithmic accountability, Bruno Latour, Carolin Gerlitz, Celia Lury, collective inquiry, CompStat, Critical Data Studies, Data Activism, data critique, data infrastructure literacy, data journalism, Data Literacy, data publics, data revolution, data worlds, Datafication, Digital Methods, digital sociology, Emmanuel Didier, Erik Borra, Esther Weltevrede, Evelyn Ruppert, experiments in participation, Facebook, FarmSubsidy, Geoffrey Bowker, Ian Hacking, information infrastructure studies, infrastructuralism, infrastructure studies, inventive data practives, inventive methods, Isabelle Bruno, John Durham Peters, Liliana Bounegru, migration, National Information Infrastructure, Nina Wakeford, Noortje Marres, open data, OpenSpending, public finance, public spending, reverse-engineering, Richard Rogers, science and technology studies, Sheila Jasanoff, socio-technical imaginaries, socio-technical infrastructures, sociology of quantification, sts, Theodore Porter, Twitter, UN, United Nations, Wendy Espeland, What Do They Know | Comments closed

New Article: “Redistributing Data Worlds: Open Data, Data Infrastructures and Democracy”, Statistique et Société, 5(3)

By jwyg | Published: January 28, 2018

I’ve just had an article published in the latest issue of Statistique et Société, a journal dedicated to exploring “how statistics intervenes in society, plays a role that is often unnoticed, and is in turn transformed by it”. The article is titled “Quand les mondes de données sont redistribués : Open Data, infrastructures de données […]

Posted in academia, data, Data Worlds, datajournalism, open access, publications, research, science and technology studies, sociology | Also tagged accountability, challenges, civic hacking, data formats, data infrastructure, data infrastructure literacy, data infrastructures, data journalism, data portals, data speak, data work, data worldmaking, data worlds, datasets, democracy, Emmanuel Didier, Geoffrey Bowker, hackathons, hackdays, history of statistics, Ian Hacking, labs, machine readable, open data, open licenses, science and technology studies, Société Française de Statistique, sociology of quantification, sociology of statistics, Statistique et Société, sts, Theodore Porter, transparency, worldmaking | Comments closed

Digital Methods Winter School 2017 on “Data Infrastructures: Database Stories, Dumps and Query Driven Narratives”, University of Amsterdam, 9-13th January 2017

By jwyg | Published: October 6, 2016

I’m involved in co-organising the 2017 edition of the annual Digital Methods Initiative Winter School which is on the theme of “Data Infrastructures: Database Stories, Dumps and Query Driven Narratives”. I’ll be speaking at the event alongside Professor Geoffrey Bowker (School of Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, Irvine), who is one of the […]

Posted in academia, data, datajournalism, digital, digital methods, digitalhumanities, events, open data, research, science and technology studies | Also tagged data journalism, Digital Methods, digital methods initiative, DMI17, Geoffrey Bowker, new media, science and technology studies, Social Media, Sorting Things Out, sts | Comments closed

Who Will Shape the Future of the Data Society?

By jwyg | Published: October 4, 2016

This piece was cross-posted on the blog of the International Open Data Conference 2016, which takes place in Madrid on 6-7th October 2016, as well as on the Open Knowledge International Blog, the LSE Impact Blog and the Institute for Policy Research Blog. The contemporary world is held together by a vast and overlapping fabric […]

Posted in academia, advocacy, conferences, data, datajournalism, digital, digital methods, open data, openknowledge, policy, research, science and technology studies | Also tagged Critical Data Studies, data infrastructures, data publics, data worlds, Geoffrey Bowker, IODC16, open data, public data, science and technology studies, sts | Comments closed

Dr. Jonathan Gray is 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. More about his work can be found here. He is on Twitter at @jwyg.