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jonathan w. y. gray
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📗 public data cultures https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures
🌱 codirector @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social reader @kingsdh.bsky.social king's college london cofounder @publicdatalab.bsky.social
🫧 feminist STS, internet studies, poetic computation
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 29d
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 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! 🦔🌌💜
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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kingsdh.bsky.social
Joint book launch at King’s 🌟
Featuring:
• @jwyg.bsky.social, Public Data Cultures
• @nsrnicek.bsky.social, Silicon Empires
• @mayameme.bsky.social, Auto-Correct

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

📅 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 📚✨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2
joint book launch 🎊 Silicon Empires x Auto-Correct x Public Data Cultures 📚✨ – Macadam Building - MB 4.2, Wed 3 Dec 2025 - Join us for a book launch event for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Gane...
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November 18, 2025 at 4:32 PM
jwyg.bsky.social
much look forward to speaking about "regenerative data cultures" at "Human Machine: Soil, Sound, Memory" symposium at Akademie der Künste in Berlin 🪱🌱🍂🔊✨ jonathangray.org/2025/11/07/r... with @wesleygoatley.bsky.social @tamigraph.bsky.social @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social & many more! 🍵💜
jonathangray.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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shannonmattern.bsky.social
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" — 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
November 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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digitalgoodnet.bsky.social
Jonathan Gray, one of our Digital Good Research Fund project leads, has recently published a new book looking at the practices and cultures of how data is made public in the age of the Internet.

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jwyg.bsky.social jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 29d
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 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! 🦔🌌💜
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.
November 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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will-davies.bsky.social
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...
thebaffler.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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sarasalem.bsky.social
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...
Intervention—“Cairo 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....
antipodeonline.org
November 10, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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merbroussard.bsky.social
Congrats on your new book @jwyg.bsky.social!
Jonathan Gray's new book, "Public Data Cultures"
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
jwyg.bsky.social
📚🎊✨ 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 💜 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.
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
jwyg.bsky.social
this looks great 👀✨ 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...
darc.au.dk
November 6, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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camdighum.bsky.social
Stacks and intersections! New article on intersectional feminist DH by our director and colleagues now available to read in @dhquarterly.bsky.social ⬇️
November 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
jwyg.bsky.social
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#
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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digicologies.bsky.social
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

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

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
jwyg.bsky.social
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 🎟️💜 www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...
cover of "resisting AI"
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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politybooks.bsky.social
‘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 👇
October 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
jwyg.bsky.social
Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks.bsky.social! 📗🎊 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! 🦔🌌💜
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.
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
jwyg.bsky.social
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 “the 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/
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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kingsdh.bsky.social
📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (online programmes)

📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term
🗓 Apply by: 26 October 2025

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

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring
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October 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
jwyg.bsky.social
much looking forward to this later today! ✨💜
copim.bsky.social Copim @copim.bsky.social · Oct 2
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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October 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
jwyg.bsky.social
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
October 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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digitaldang.bsky.social
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.
October 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
jwyg.bsky.social
glad to hear this resonated! 💜📖
digitaldang.bsky.social Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · Oct 1
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.
October 1, 2025 at 6:37 AM
jwyg.bsky.social
✨ 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...
September 11, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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kingsdh.bsky.social
📢 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
August 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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kingsdh.bsky.social
📢 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
August 14, 2025 at 9:31 AM
jwyg.bsky.social
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
July 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM