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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 6d

update: my colleagues tell me that the deadline has now been extended to 12th October!

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 6d

much looking forward to this later today! ✨💜

Copim @copim.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in experimental book publishing?

Join us for a hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project!

📆 4 October 2025
⏰ 12:30 to 18:00 BST
📍 Online and at Borough Road Gallery, London

More details 👉

Collective Infrastructures for Publishing

4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive…

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 7d

thank you Martin! 🌱🦔
(it has been a long time in the making, as you know!..)

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 7d

Grateful for these words from @noortjem.bsky.social and Geoffrey Bowker on final cover of Public Data Cultures ✨ jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Out with @politybooks.bsky.social in Oct (UK) and Dec (US). Suggestions welcome for anyone who might like to do an event, interview or class with it. 💜📗🎊

Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures book. The front of the cover is an image of "7 Pyramide in form einer achtel skugel, 1967," by Eduard Paolozzi. The quotes at the top read:

“In an era when ‘data’ seems so often a tool of oppression and control, this book provides a marvellous, salutary exploration of its deployment for social change. This is a core optimistic message for our times; Gray is the ideal guide.” - Geoffrey C. Bowker, UC Irvine

“This is an enchanting guide to a defining phenomenon of digital culture, which shows how different worlds may come about through practising data otherwise.” - Noortje Marres, author of Digital Sociology

The rest of the book blurb can be found at: https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures

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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 8d

Interested in experimental book publishing?

Join us for a hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project!

📆 4 October 2025
⏰ 12:30 to 18:00 BST
📍 Online and at Borough Road Gallery, London

More details 👉

Collective Infrastructures for Publishing

4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing ‘ServPub’ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive…

buff.ly

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 9d

a less well-documented side of the san francisco my mother and her siblings grew up in. novel feels like an apt format to convey the liveliness and contentions of those years. traces of these stories, communities and mobilisations still there, despite everything.

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 9d

glad to hear this resonated! 💜📖

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 9d

I'm sitting with I Hotel today—put in my hands very recently by @jwyg.bsky.social, and I’m only just beginning to grasp how much it speaks to me.

Karen Tei Yamashita’s sprawling, dazzling book is set in San Francisco but reaches far beyond it.

A copy of Karen Tei Yamashita’s novel “I Hotel” rests on a light wooden table beside a white mug of black coffee on a coaster. The book cover features abstract imagery in shades of purple and blue, with white dots arranged in a domino-like pattern. The cover also notes that it is a National Book Award finalist.

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 9d

What it stages in between is the pulse of Asian American resistance, community, and memory. Reading it now, I feel its charge reverberating through my own work.

Thanks again for the rec, @jwyg.bsky.social ! You have no idea how precisely this plugs into the coordinates I’ve been tracing.

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 9d

I'm sitting with I Hotel today—put in my hands very recently by @jwyg.bsky.social, and I’m only just beginning to grasp how much it speaks to me.

Karen Tei Yamashita’s sprawling, dazzling book is set in San Francisco but reaches far beyond it.

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 29d

✨ call for proposals ✨ - "Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital", London 23-26th June 2026 - coinciding with 25th anniversary of @kingsdh.bsky.social. deadline: 30th September 2025. further details here: jonathangray.org/2025/09/11/d...

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).

📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring

my.corehr.com

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · Aug 14

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)!

📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after)
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026
🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#AcademicJobs

my.corehr.com

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Nov 16

Amitav Ghosh on "Writing and imagining history: narrating the Indian Ocean world", 28th Nov 2024, 7pm 💜 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/writi...

Writing and imagining history: narrating the Indian Ocean world

The Global Cultures Institute and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project IATIO welcome the world-renowned author Amitav Ghosh to present the Institute's 2024-25 Annual Lecture and mark the end of the IATI...

www.kcl.ac.uk

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Nov 17

last chance to sign up for school for poetic computation winter 2025 classes on "solidarity infrastructures", "narrative constellations", "drawing data by hand", "gift interfaces", "relational reconstruction" and "the browser is already a game engine" sfpc.study

Screenshot of website sfpc.study - with light text on dark background. Text reads: "Poetic computation is a relational practice organized around communal study. The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City and online supporting interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It's a place for learning and unlearning. Learn more about us here."
There are boxes with classes reading: "WINTER 2025", "SOLIDARITY INFRASTRUCTURES", "NARRATIVE CONSTELLATIONS", "DRAWING DATA BY HAND", "GIFT INTERFACES", "RELATIONAL RECONSTRUCTION" and "THE BROWSER IS ALREADY A GAME ENGINE".

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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · Dec 1

Cool project here from @jwyg.bsky.social

troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸

troubling-ai.glitch.me

troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸

troubling-ai.glitch.me

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Mingcan Rong @mingcan-rong.bsky.social · Dec 6

Our workshop ‘From Archives to AI: Researching and Imagining Socioenvironmental Relations’ will be held at Bristol on 12 Feb 2025, which includes talks by @oliviamason.bsky.social @mattinbiglari.bsky.social @jwyg.bsky.social & a panel discussion chaired by Mark Jackson! 🤩

Please find details below!

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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · Mar 25

Join us next week at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social to hear @jwyg.bsky.social & @lboungr.bsky.social of @publicdatalab.bsky.social share their work on developing collaborative methods for exploring public issues.

📅 Weds 2nd April, 16:00 - 17:30
🔗Register now at edin.ac/3DCDVEF

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Jul 18

a little piece on "data not found" in latest edition of CURSOR, a cyberfeminist micro magazine: jonathangray.org/2025/07/18/c...

picture of piece on "data not found" in CURSOR mag

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Jul 16

If you teach data studies or critical/creative data practices and you're potentially interested in adopting "Public Data Cultures" on a course you teach - let me know! 💌 Polity have asked for teachers and courses for sending out review copies. ✨

jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · May 15

"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Jul 4

look forward to speaking about public data cultures in Lancaster on Wed 9th July ✨ jonathangray.org/2025/07/03/l...

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Jun 25

📚 I look forward to giving a workshop next week on critical data practices and digital media research methods with @jwyg.bsky.social‬ at the 2025 Fudan University Summer School on Communication Theory and Research Methods in Shanghai.

#criticaldatastudies #communicationstudies #researchmethods

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Jun 20

look forward to speaking about public data cultures + @publicdatalab.bsky.social with @lboungr.bsky.social at Fudan University, Shanghai on 30th June: jonathangray.org/2025/06/20/f...

poster for 21st “Summer School on Chinese and International Communication Theories and Methods” at Fudan University

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Jun 19

Looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lboungr.bsky.social @wildflyingpanda.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/s...

screenshot of https://forest-restoration.eu/

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · Jun 17

✨ Grateful for the invitation to speak at Seoul National University next week w/ @jwyg.bsky.social on digital methods, critical data practice, @publicdatalab.bsky.social‬, and the Data Journalism Handbook (buff.ly/bYrnCzC). Excited to learn from SNU colleagues in STS & digital media and culture!

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Jun 12

looking forward to speaking at Seoul National University with
@lboungr.bsky.social about public data cultures, critical data practices and repurposing digital media for collective inquiry: jonathangray.org/2025/06/10/s... grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! 🌱🐨✨

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Sebastian Gießmann @sebgiessmann.bsky.social · Jun 3

🕸️ I am really looking forward to THE DATAFIED WEB conference now (while the buzz of #rp25 is slowly fading).

The preconference is starting tomorrow!

The full RESAW 2025 program can be viewed on our conference website 👉 datafiedweb.net. Hashtag is #RESAW25 on Mastodon & elsewhere. See you in a bit!

Conference Design RESAW25, Siegen, June 4-6, 2025

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · May 23

“spiritual bliss attractor state” - a “consistent gravitation toward consciousness exploration, existential questioning, and spiritual/mystical themes” in latest Claude system card (pp. 62-65):
www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68...

excepts on “spiritual bliss attractor state” from Anthropic “System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4” (pp. 62-65)

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · May 21

Look forward to talking about public data cultures and data journalism with @lboungr.bsky.social at University of Milano-Bicocca, Thursday 22nd May 2025 at 2.30pm:
www.sociologia.unimib.it/it/eventi/pu...

book covers for "Public Data Cultures" and "The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice"

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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · May 20

📚 I look forward to speaking this Thursday at the University of Milan-Bicocca about The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice - a book I had the privilege to co-edit with @jwyg.bsky.social buff.ly/JRywQB8

🔗 Event details: buff.ly/njsCoF6

The Data Journalism Handbook

The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a…

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · May 15

Thanks again for looking at it and for sharing! 😌💜

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