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jwyg@post.lurk.org

<p>โœจ critical inquiry with &amp; about data, methods, infrastructures<br />โ€จ๐Ÿจ director <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@centrefordigitalculture" class="u-url mention">@<span>centrefordigitalculture</span></a></span>; reader <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hcommons.social/@kingsdh" class="u-url mention">@<span>kingsdh</span></a></span> king&#39;s college london; cofounder <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://vis.social/@publicdatalab" class="u-url mention">@<span>publicdatalab</span></a></span>; research associate digital methods initiative, amsterdam + mรฉdialab, paris.</p><p>๐Ÿ‚ <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/sts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sts</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/datastudi

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  • Post #1443281

    taking cue from other field gatherings, some #scienceandtechnologystudies (#STS) accounts to follow: https://jwyg.github.io/mastodon-sts/ who else can we add? ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿ’พ๐Ÿ‚๐ŸŽ›๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ“ก๐Ÿฎ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿงช๐Ÿšฒ๐ŸŒฒโ˜๏ธ๐Ÿ—‚ @Aepasek @brunostrasser @cassandreces @cbj @chanders @ckohtala @EstherTurnhout@mastodon.social @i_ngli @inquiline@mastodon.social @jonathansterne @k8henne@mastodon.social @maxliboiron@mastodon.lol @NoortjeMarres @samday@climatejustice.social @shobitap @stefanlaser @tscriado @tneale @WarrenPearce

  • Post #1172345

    new article on &amp;quot;pluralising critical technical practice&amp;quot; with Daniela van Geenen and @kfvanes has just been published in Convergence: https://jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/pluralising-ctp we&amp;#39;ll add full details &amp;amp; links for the special issue here when it is out ๐Ÿ‘€ https://publicdatalab.org/projects/pluralising-critical-technical-practices/ #criticaltechnicalpractice #internetstudies #datastudies #artificialintelligence #digitaldevices #digitalmethods #inventivem...

  • Post #1172340

    launch of special issue on critical technical practices in digital research this afternoon! ๐ŸŽŠ https://jonathangray.org/2024/07/10/ctp-special-issue

  • Post #1094182

    &amp;quot;The algorithmic uncanny is the feeling of unease or disorientation that can arise when we encounter the workings of algorithms in our daily lives. An algorithm is a set of instructions or rules that are used to perform a specific task, such as sorting data or making predictions. Algorithms are widely used in digital technologies, such as search engines, social media platforms, and online recommendation systems, to process and analyze data in order to provide us with information, servic...

  • Post #1094172

    How can soundscapes be used as a way to attend to forest life and the many different ways that we narrate and relate to forests? The forestscapes project aims to explore and document generative arts-based methods for recomposing collections of sound materials to support โ€œcollective inquiryโ€ into forests as living cultural landscapes. As part of the project we have an open call for folders of forest sounds. More at: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/07/forestscapes #forests #listening #soundsc...

  • Post #1094168

    Any Berlin recommendations for May/June? So far we&amp;#39;ve been absorbed by Zabriskie&amp;#39;s bookshelves; Indigo Waves at Gropius Bau; Hito Steyerl&amp;#39;s Animal Spirits; and looking forward to O Quilombismo at Kulturen der Welt; Cao Fei at Sprรผth Magers; Zineb Sedira at Hamburger Bahnhof... Here for a few weeks for a fellowship at Potsdam + forestscapes installation at @republica - and looking forward to catching up with friends... https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowshi...

  • Post #1079375

    How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this weโ€™re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: https://troubling-ai.glitch.me #ai #genai #chatgpt #midjourney #mediastudies #internetstudies #artificialintelligence

  • Post #1079361

    Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks ! ๐Ÿ“—๐ŸŽŠ https://jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/public-data-cultures 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

  • Post #1079360

    ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ“— book launch for &amp;quot;public data cultures&amp;quot; with Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint in Amsterdam on 7th January: https://jonathangray.org/2025/11/28/amsterdam #dmi26 #digitalmethods

  • Post #1003460

    it was great to be back at @cimethods with Nerea Calvillo @NoortjeMarres @mdieter @sanjay_digital and many others - thanks so much for having me โœจ https://jonathangray.org/2026/03/18/cim

  • Post #1003459

    ๐Ÿš‚ on way to edinburgh for a book talk on public data cultures tomorrow, 27th March 3-5pm โœจ๐ŸŒฑ๐Ÿ’œ https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/cds-seminar-series-jonathan-gray/ thanks to @karengregory Morgan Currie @alextaylor &amp;amp; all involved in hosting me! ๐Ÿจ #edinburgh #publicdatacultures

  • Post #1003458

    back in Copenhagen! โœจ if youโ€™re in vicinity, there will be a joint book launch for Public Data Cultures at DTU Wed 8th April. then heading to Aarhus University for book talk with Centre for Critical Data Practices on Thu 9th April. links &amp;amp; details๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿฐ๐ŸŒŒ https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures#book-talks

  • Post #949659

    how are networked environments designing, capturing, and capitalising on ways of being social? call for participation from PhD / early career research workshop at @transmediale https://transmediale.de/en/news/research-workshop-2025

  • Post #947732

    The first four books on our Amsterdam University Press digital studies series (of which Iโ€™m a founding editor) have been published - all #openaccess ๐ŸŽŠ๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’œ https://jonathangray.org/2024/07/25/aup-digital-studies This includes books on the platformisation of consumer culture, algorithmic regimes, feminist futures of work and critical data practices.

  • Post #947728

    New #openaccess book on &amp;quot;Dialogues in Data Power&amp;quot; edited by @juliane and @J0bates ๐ŸŽŠ I contributed to a chapter on โ€œIn/visibilities in Data Studies: Methods, Tools, and Interventionsโ€: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/17/invisibilities-data-studies #datastudies #criticaldatastudies

  • Post #761084

    launching a new Digital Investigations Lab โœจ https://jonathangray.org/2026/03/23/digital-investigations-lab co-led by @dv @lbngr &amp;amp; me

  • Post #713919

    &amp;quot;Un-indexing forest media: repurposing search query results to reconsider forest-society relations&amp;quot; with @gabrielecolombo is out in cultural geographies journal: https://jonathangray.org/2023/06/21/unindexing-forest-media #digitalecologies #environmentalhumanities #envhums #sts #commodon #newmedia #forests #geography #digitalmethods #digitalhumanities #search #indexing #unindexing

  • Post #713905

    To what extent can public datasets address questions related to urgent issues? We&amp;#39;re exploring this with &amp;quot;datatesting&amp;quot; a new @digitalgoodnet@mastodon.world project with Global Data Barometer, Silvana Fumega, Amy Johnson, @esimperl, @ODIHQ, @centrefordigitalculture @kingsdh &amp;amp; more! https://jonathangray.org/2024/11/05/datatesting

  • Post #580102

    โ˜ƒ๏ธ snowy book launch for public data cultures at the digital methods winter school in amsterdam โ„๏ธ๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿ’œโœจ some notes and pics: https://jonathangray.org/2026/01/12/dmi26 #dmi26

  • Post #580101

    happy to be starting research leave from jan til june ๐Ÿฐ๐ŸŽŠ๐ŸŒฑโœจ in the spirit of sharing, here are some things i&amp;#39;ll be spending time on: https://jonathangray.org/2026/01/15/research-leave

  • Post #580100

    looking forward to opening of transmediale tonight! https://transmediale.de/en #transmediale #tm26

  • Post #580099

    next week I&amp;#39;ll be talking about Public Data Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin - thanks so much to @algorhythmics for the invitation! โœจ https://jonathangray.org/2026/01/29/humboldt-berlin

  • Post #580098

    some notes on Chia Amisola @chia&amp;#39;s Internet Ambient - exploring the web&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;ecologies, defaults, opacities and territories&amp;quot; โœจ https://jonathangray.org/2026/01/24/chia-amisola

  • Post #580097

    how is the Wayback Machine used in digital investigations? @lbngr, Thais Lobo and I explored thousands of news articles to see how they use web archives to tell stories about what is deleted, altered, banned, broken, hacked and more: https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/follow-the-changes/ with @internetarchive @internetarchiveeurope #osint

  • Post #580096

    looking forward to this book event for Public Data Cultures at the @internetarchiveeurope in Amsterdam on this coming Monday 9th February 2026: https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/internet-archive

  • Post #580095

    a new digital ecologies network โœจ๐ŸŒฑ https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/04/digital-ecologies with Anna Watkins Fisher @slehuede GรผneลŸ Tavmen @Maudbo @lbngr Mike Duggan @dv @joanna Feng Zhu

  • Post #580094

    looking forward to &amp;quot;wayback studio&amp;quot; exploring tools, methods and approaches for critically and creatively repurposing web archives tomorrow with @internetarchiveeurope โœจ then an evening book event on public data cultures: https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/internet-archive

  • Post #580093

    some notes, pictures &amp;amp; links from transmediale/ 2026 - By the Mango Belt &amp;amp; Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring โœจ๐ŸŒŒ๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿต https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/15/transmediale #transmediale #tm26

  • Post #580092

    How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archiveโ€™s Wayback Machine? We had a &amp;quot;wayback studio&amp;quot; in Amsterdam to explore this with friends and colleagues at @internetarchiveeurope @publicdatalab @centrefordigitalculture &amp;amp; more - some notes here: https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/18/wayback-amsterdam