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jonathan w. y. gray
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๐Ÿ“— public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
๐ŸŒฑ codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
๐Ÿซง feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation .. more

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Jonathan Gray is the editor of Dancing Times, the oldest dance magazine still in publication.

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท Oct 23
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! ๐Ÿ“—๐ŸŽŠ jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/p...
It aims to nurture critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. Happy to see it out in the world! ๐Ÿฆ”๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿ’œ
unboxing Public Data Cultures book Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag. Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 19h
how to support care in group learning? @lboungr.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social and I co-organised a project on โ€œgrowing group careโ€ and cocreated a zine with our students Abi Abosejo, Adja Seck, cong fu, Ellie Jennings, Kesara Ariyapongpairoj & Louis Saha ๐ŸŒฑโœจ jonathangray.org/2025/11/25/g...
zine on growing group care
Liliana Bounegru, Pippa Sterk and I recently organised a project on โ€œgrowing group careโ€. As part of the project we cocreated a zine with our students - Abi Abosejo, Adja Seck, Cong Fu, Ellie Jennings...
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Reposted by Jonathan Gray, Fabiรกn Muniesa

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social ยท 20h
Sooo many folks Iโ€™m excited to work with on Mamdaniโ€™s technology transition committee. All hands on deck to bring the Affordability Agenda to life: childcare, housing, transportation.

While its easy to get swept up in personality, this is a group focused on peoples real needs. LETS KEEP THE FOCUS.
Committee on Technology Sarah Aoun Ruha Benjamin, Ida B Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton Myaisha Hayes, MediaJustice Noel Hidalgo, BetaNYC Sam Jacobs, Food Fight Lab Katherine Jin, Democratic Socialists of America Amba Kak, AI Now Institute Huge Ma, Turbovax Matt Mitchell ReNika Moore, ACLU Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study Martha Norrick, Backbone Strategies Julie Samuels, Tech NYC Garfield Swaby, New York Public Library Julie Swoope Democratic Socialists of America Haley Van Dyck Elyse Voegeli, 18F Maia Woluchem, Data & Society The Mamdani administrationโ€™s 17 transition committees: Housing Youth & Education Transportation, Climate & Infrastructure Arts & Culture Community Organizing Community Safety Economic Development & Workforce Development Emergency Response Government Operations Health Immigrant Justice Criminal Legal System Legal Affairs Small Businesses & MWBEs Social Services Technology Worker Justice Photo of a colorful keffiyeh with a name tag on it that says โ€œRuha Benjamin, Technology, A NEW ERA for New York Cityโ€

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 1d
๐ŸŽŠ exciting news!

Reposted by Brian Keegan, Cecilia Rikap

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 2d
look forward to being back in Paris on 2nd dec to speak about public data cultures ๐ŸŒฑ
jonathangray.org/2025/11/24/p...
at @sciencespo.bsky.social with Sรฉverine Dusollier, Yochai Benkler, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, Lรฉo Pascault, Balazs Bodo and @arisimarta.bsky.social
public data cultures in Paris, 2nd December 2025
Looking forward to visiting Sciences Po, Paris on 2nd December to speak about Public Data Cultures. This is part of a panel on โ€œopenness to achieve digital justice: experiments, promises, and flawsโ€ w...
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Reposted by Jonathan Gray, Noortje Marres

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social ยท 8d
Joint book launch at Kingโ€™s ๐ŸŒŸ
Featuring:
โ€ข @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures
โ€ข @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires
โ€ข @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct

In conversation with @noortjem.bsky.social &
@joannazylinska.bsky.social

๐Ÿ“… 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
free ticket ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ โ€“ joint book launch ๐ŸŽŠ Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures ๐Ÿ“šโœจ โ€“ Macadam Building - MB 4.2
joint book launch ๐ŸŽŠ Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures ๐Ÿ“šโœจ โ€“ Macadam Building - MB 4.2, Wed 3 Dec 2025 - Join us for a book launch event for Nick Srnicek'sย Silicon Empires, Maya Gane...
www.tickettailor.com

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 8d
aww thanks so much @timdavies.org.uk ๐Ÿ’œ๐ŸŒฑ would love to hear more about the course @kcorrick.bsky.social! happy to send a review copy / join for a chat with your students if you thought it might be relevant. ๐Ÿตโœจ

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 13d
much look forward to speaking about "regenerative data cultures" at "Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory" symposium at Akademie der Kรผnste in Berlin ๐Ÿชฑ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ‚๐Ÿ”Šโœจ jonathangray.org/2025/11/07/r... with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! ๐Ÿต๐Ÿ’œ
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social ยท 14d
Amelia Acker: "Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty...: from magnetic tape + timesharing computer models from the 1950s,... to file structures + virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 yrs" โ€”ย open access!
Archiving Machines
Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...
mitpress.mit.edu

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 15d
fantastic - thanks so much! added to this channel and will share with our students. ๐Ÿ’œ www.are.na/jonathan-gra...
๐Ÿ—ƒ web archivery | Are.na
links, resources, projects on working with web archives. used for teaching digital methods classes - e.g. https://jwyg.github.io/digitalmethods/web-archives
www.are.na

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social ยท 15d
Great piece by Fred Turner on the pivot from Californian ideology of connection (which built the web) to Texan ideology of extraction and theocracy thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 15d
congrats - this looks great! ๐ŸŽŠ would love to share method and code with our students if it is available. ๐ŸŒฑ

Reposted by Jonathan Gray, Malcolm MacLean, Halil D. Kaya

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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social ยท 16d
I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential

antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Interventionโ€”โ€œCairo Roadโ€ - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusakaโ€™s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 19d
thanks so much Meredith! ๐Ÿ’œ
a cartoon totoro is sitting on top of a hill
ALT: a cartoon totoro is sitting on top of a hill
media.tenor.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social ยท 19d
Congrats on your new book @jwyg.bsky.social!
Jonathan Gray's new book, "Public Data Cultures"

Reposted by Noortje Marres

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 19d
๐Ÿ“š๐ŸŽŠโœจ yay - joint book launch for @nsrnicek.bsky.social's Silicon Empires, @mayameme.bsky.social's Auto-Correct and my Public Data Cultures, in discussion with @joannazylinska.bsky.social & @noortjem.bsky.social on 3rd Dec, 7-9pm ๐Ÿ’œ www.tickettailor.com/events/kings... @politybooks.bsky.social
book covers for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Ganesh's Auto-Correct and Jonathan W. Y. Gray's Public Data Cultures.

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 20d
this looks great ๐Ÿ‘€โœจ README Software Art Festival 20 Years On: darc.au.dk/blog/nyhed/a...
with @spold.bsky.social @olgagoriunova.bsky.social @arns.bsky.social @saulalbert.bsky.social @uebergeek.bsky.social @ann9na.bsky.social & many more!
README Software Art Festival 20 Years On. Launch of Video Archive (6 Nov 2025)
We welcome you to the event celebrating the launch of the archive of the 2004 Readme Dorkbot videos. To mark this occasion and discuss the last 20 years in art, culture and computation, some of the or...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 21d
also this piece from the full stack feminism project on critical feminist methodologies for exploring bias and discrimination by @swebb.bsky.social Jeneen Naji & @izzyfox.bsky.social academic.oup.com/dsh/article/...
On proximityโ€”exploring experiences of bias and discrimination in digital humanities
Abstract. This article explores proximity as a critical feminist methodology in digital humanities, emphasizing its role in addressing bias in digital tech
academic.oup.com

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 21d
what is full stack feminism? new @dhquarterly.bsky.social piece by Caroline Bassett, Kylie Jarrett & @swebb.bsky.social on intersectional feminist #digitalhumanities โœจ dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000... #dh @fullstackfeminism.bsky.social @camdighum.bsky.social @sussexdigitalhums.bsky.social
screenshot of "Stacks and Intersections: Feminist Thinking in Digital Humanities, a view from 'these islands'": https://dhq.digitalhumanities.org/vol/19/3/000807/000807.html#

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท 23d
what is an anti-fascist approach to AI? look forward to @philosopher1923.bsky.social event on @danmcquillan.bsky.social's "resisting AI" with @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social later today - free & online - tickets here ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ๐Ÿ’œ www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...
cover of "resisting AI"

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social ยท Oct 24
โ€˜When #data seems so often a tool of oppression and control, this book provides a marvellous exploration of its deployment for social change. This is a core optimistic message for our times; Gray is the ideal guide.โ€™ Geoffrey C. Bowker
Public Data Cultures is out now! @jwyg.bsky.social

Link below ๐Ÿ‘‡

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท Oct 22
congrats to @archive.org for reaching 1 trillion pages archived on #waybackmachine. ๐ŸŽŠ glad @lboungr.bsky.social and I could share how we use it in research, teaching and digital investigations, featured on celebration page alongside Tactical Tech and others: blog.archive.org/trillion/ #wayback1t
poster for โ€œthe web weโ€™ve builtโ€ - celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived - Wednesday 22nd October - Internet Archive. screenshot of impact stories on https://blog.archive.org/trillion/

Reposted by Jonathan Gray, Fabiรกn Muniesa

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social ยท Oct 14
๐Ÿ“ข Weโ€™re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (online programmes)

๐Ÿ“” Contract: Full-time, fixed term
๐Ÿ—“ Apply by: 26 October 2025

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

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
my.corehr.com

Reposted by Jonathan Gray, Gillian Rose, Jamie Lorimer

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social ยท Oct 6
๐ŸŒ๐Ÿšจ CALL FOR PAPERS ๐Ÿšจ๐ŸŒ

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

๐Ÿ—“๏ธ 2-3 February 2026
๐Ÿ“ @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท Oct 4
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 ยท Oct 4
much looking forward to this later today! โœจ๐Ÿ’œ
copim.bsky.social Copim @copim.bsky.social ยท Oct 2
Interested in experimental book publishing?

Join us for a hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing โ€˜ServPubโ€™ experimental book pilot project!

๐Ÿ“† 4 October 2025
โฐ 12:30 to 18:00 BST
๐Ÿ“ Online and at Borough Road Gallery, London

More details ๐Ÿ‘‰
Collective Infrastructures for Publishing
4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing โ€˜ServPubโ€™ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractiveโ€ฆ
buff.ly

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท Oct 3
thank you Martin! ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿฆ”
(it has been a long time in the making, as you know!..)

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท Oct 3
Grateful for these words from @noortjem.bsky.social and Geoffrey Bowker on final cover of Public Data Cultures โœจ 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. ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ“—๐ŸŽŠ
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: โ€œIn an era when โ€˜dataโ€™ 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.โ€ - Geoffrey C. Bowker, UC Irvine โ€œThis is an enchanting guide to a defining phenomenon of digital culture, which shows how different worlds may come about through practising data otherwise.โ€ - 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 ยท Oct 2
Interested in experimental book publishing?

Join us for a hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing โ€˜ServPubโ€™ experimental book pilot project!

๐Ÿ“† 4 October 2025
โฐ 12:30 to 18:00 BST
๐Ÿ“ Online and at Borough Road Gallery, London

More details ๐Ÿ‘‰
Collective Infrastructures for Publishing
4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing โ€˜ServPubโ€™ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractiveโ€ฆ
buff.ly

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social ยท Oct 1
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.