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jonathan w. y. gray
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πŸ“— public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
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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 Β· Oct 23
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! πŸ“—πŸŽŠ 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! πŸ¦”πŸŒŒπŸ’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 Β· 2d
ahh - I believe the ebook will be available in December! 🌱

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· 2d
ahh - thanks for your interest! did you try links here? jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...
Public Data Cultures
a page about Public Data Cultures (Polity Books, 2025)
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· 2d
πŸŒ±πŸ“— exploring public data cultures with School of Communications and Arts, University of SΓ£o Paulo on 4th Dec jonathangray.org/2025/11/24/s...
#publicdatacultures
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· 3d
how to support care in group learning? @lboungr.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social and I co-organised a project on β€œgrowing group care” and cocreated a zine with our students Abi Abosejo, Adja Seck, cong fu, Ellie Jennings, Kesara Ariyapongpairoj & Louis Saha 🌱✨ jonathangray.org/2025/11/25/g...
zine on growing group care
Liliana Bounegru, Pippa Sterk and I recently organised a project on β€œgrowing group care”. As part of the project we cocreated a zine with our students - Abi Abosejo, Adja Seck, Cong Fu, Ellie Jennings...
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social Β· 3d
Sooo many folks I’m excited to work with on Mamdani’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 administration’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 β€œRuha Benjamin, Technology, A NEW ERA for New York City”

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· 4d
🎊 exciting news!

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· 5d
look forward to being back in Paris on 2nd dec to speak about public data cultures 🌱
jonathangray.org/2025/11/24/p...
at @sciencespo.bsky.social with SΓ©verine Dusollier, Yochai Benkler, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, LΓ©o 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 β€œopenness to achieve digital justice: experiments, promises, and flaws” w...
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Dr Margie Cheesman @margchee.bsky.social Β· 5d
New article w @cearadau.bsky.social
Connecting feminist theory with technology studies, our lens - technosocial reproduction - explains how tech interventions should replenish rather than deplete the overlooked work people already do to sustain life.

www.eflux.com/architecture...
Humanitarianism - Margie Cheesman et al. - Technosocial Reproduction and Humanitarian Reason
A white van rolled through the gates of a refugee camp in mainland Greece, its driver unloading a stack of pre-packaged lunches.
www.e-flux.com

Reposted by Jonathan Gray, Noortje Marres

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social Β· 11d
Joint book launch at King’s 🌟
Featuring:
β€’ @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures
β€’ @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires
β€’ @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct

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

πŸ“… 3 Dec, 19:00-21:00
www.tickettailor.com/events/kings...
free ticket 🎟️ – joint book launch 🎊 Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures πŸ“šβœ¨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2
joint book launch 🎊 Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures πŸ“šβœ¨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2, Wed 3 Dec 2025 - Join us for a book launch event for Nick Srnicek'sΒ Silicon Empires, Maya Gane...
www.tickettailor.com

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· 11d
aww thanks so much @timdavies.org.uk πŸ’œπŸŒ± 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. 🍡✨

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· 16d
much look forward to speaking about "regenerative data cultures" at "Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory" symposium at Akademie der KΓΌnste in Berlin πŸͺ±πŸŒ±πŸ‚πŸ”Šβœ¨ jonathangray.org/2025/11/07/r... with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! πŸ΅πŸ’œ
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social Β· 17d
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" β€”Β 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 Β· 18d
fantastic - thanks so much! added to this channel and will share with our students. πŸ’œ www.are.na/jonathan-gra...
πŸ—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 Β· 18d
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 Β· 18d
congrats - this looks great! 🎊 would love to share method and code with our students if it is available. 🌱

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

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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social Β· 19d
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...
Interventionβ€”β€œCairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· 22d
thanks so much Meredith! πŸ’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 Β· 22d
Congrats on your new book @jwyg.bsky.social!
Jonathan Gray's new book, "Public Data Cultures"

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· 23d
πŸ“šπŸŽŠβœ¨ 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 πŸ’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 Β· 23d
this looks great πŸ‘€βœ¨ 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 Β· 24d
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 proximityβ€”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 Β· 24d
what is full stack feminism? new @dhquarterly.bsky.social piece by Caroline Bassett, Kylie Jarrett & @swebb.bsky.social on intersectional feminist #digitalhumanities ✨ 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 Β· 26d
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 πŸŽŸοΈπŸ’œ www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...
cover of "resisting AI"

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social Β· Oct 24
β€˜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.’ Geoffrey C. Bowker
Public Data Cultures is out now! @jwyg.bsky.social

Link below πŸ‘‡

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social Β· Oct 22
congrats to @archive.org for reaching 1 trillion pages archived on #waybackmachine. 🎊 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 β€œthe web we’ve built” - celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived - Wednesday 22nd October - Internet Archive. screenshot of impact stories on https://blog.archive.org/trillion/

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social Β· Oct 14
πŸ“’ We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (online programmes)

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

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

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
my.corehr.com

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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social Β· Oct 6
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

πŸ—“οΈ 2-3 February 2026
πŸ“ @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 Β· 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 Β· Oct 4
much looking forward to this later today! βœ¨πŸ’œ
copim.bsky.social Copim @copim.bsky.social Β· Oct 2
Interested in experimental book publishing?

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

πŸ“† 4 October 2025
⏰ 12:30 to 18:00 BST
πŸ“ Online and at Borough Road Gallery, London

More details πŸ‘‰
Collective Infrastructures for Publishing
4 October 2025, 12:30 to 18:00 BST: A hybrid symposium sharing insights gathered from the ongoing β€˜ServPub’ experimental book pilot project. We will be discussing experimental tools, non-extractive…
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