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jonathan w. y. gray

@jwyg.bsky.social

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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 .. 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 · 18d

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! 🦔🌌💜

Copies of the book on a train in Totoro bag.

Front and back cover of Public Data Cultures with quotes and book blurb.

jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 2h

fantastic - thanks so much! added to this channel and will share with our students. 💜 www.are.na/jonathan-gra...

🗃 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

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 2h

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 · 2h

congrats - this looks great! 🎊 would love to share method and code with our students if it is available. 🌱

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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 1d

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....

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 3d

thanks so much Meredith! 💜

a cartoon totoro is sitting on top of a hill

ALT: a cartoon totoro is sitting on top of a hill

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 3d

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 · 4d

📚🎊✨ 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.

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

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...

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

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 proximity—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

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

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 · 7d

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...

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Polity @politybooks.bsky.social · 18d

‘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 👇

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

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/

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Digital Humanities @ King's College London @kingsdh.bsky.social · 27d

📢 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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Digital Ecologies @digicologies.bsky.social · Oct 6

🌐🚨 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

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

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

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

much looking forward to this later today! ✨💜

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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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Oct 3

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

jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Oct 3

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 · Oct 2

Collective Infrastructures for Publishing

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

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

glad to hear this resonated! 💜📖

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.

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · Oct 1

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 · Oct 1

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · Sep 11

✨ 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

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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

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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...

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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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