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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
📚🎊✨ 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
November 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
November 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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...
November 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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! 🦔🌌💜
October 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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
October 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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. 💜📗🎊
October 3, 2025 at 11:50 AM
a little piece on "data not found" in latest edition of CURSOR, a cyberfeminist micro magazine: jonathangray.org/2025/07/18/c...
July 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
look forward to speaking about public data cultures in Lancaster on Wed 9th July ✨ jonathangray.org/2025/07/03/l...
July 4, 2025 at 6:11 AM
look forward to speaking about public data cultures + @publicdatalab.bsky.social with @lboungr.bsky.social at Fudan University, Shanghai on 30th June: jonathangray.org/2025/06/20/f...
June 20, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Looking for a research associate to explore societal engagement with forest restoration on digital media – with @lboungr.bsky.social @wildflyingpanda.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social & more. Grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! jonathangray.org/2025/05/31/s...
June 19, 2025 at 3:55 PM
looking forward to speaking at Seoul National University with
@lboungr.bsky.social about public data cultures, critical data practices and repurposing digital media for collective inquiry: jonathangray.org/2025/06/10/s... grateful for help sharing with those who might be interested! 🌱🐨✨
June 12, 2025 at 10:52 AM
“spiritual bliss attractor state” - a “consistent gravitation toward consciousness exploration, existential questioning, and spiritual/mystical themes” in latest Claude system card (pp. 62-65):
www-cdn.anthropic.com/6be99a52cb68...
May 23, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Look forward to talking about public data cultures and data journalism with @lboungr.bsky.social at University of Milano-Bicocca, Thursday 22nd May 2025 at 2.30pm:
www.sociologia.unimib.it/it/eventi/pu...
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 AM
"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...
May 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
March 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f...
with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan
March 12, 2025 at 7:11 PM
much look forward to co-hosting this evening with @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social on her new book "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" on 10th march. details & tickets here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/dark-...
February 7, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Last few days to apply for #STS Italia Conference on ✨Technoscience for Good: Designing, Caring and Reconfiguring✨ 11-13 June 2025 stsitalia.org/call-for-abs... with keynotes from @ruha9.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social @karengregory.bsky.social @kylzjarrett.bsky.social @emilianotrere.com
January 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
how to save stuff on the internet? short, sweet & useful zine on diy web archiving by @bitarchivist.net @ilya.webrecorder.net @quinnanya.me @akijas.bsky.social @literaturegeek.bsky.social ✨💾🐢 zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... #webarchiving
January 28, 2025 at 9:43 PM
January 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
fantastic talk from @thaophan.bsky.social on drone testing and nations as testbeds for colonial experimentation and dispossession: www.centrefordronesandculture.com/events/testi...
here's the film: www.careful.industries/ai-in-the-st...
with @amygaeta.bsky.social @cfi-cambridge.bsky.social
#sts
January 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Richard Rogers on comparing bias and stereotyping harms across regional flagship LLMs: arxiv.org/html/2407.11... #dmi25
January 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Sabine Niederer shows Carlo De Gaetano's emoji charts comparing biodiversity across different generative AI services 🦋🦜🦌🌴🦉🌸
#dmi25
January 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Gabriele Colombo @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on escalating evocative prompting - a bunny which is happier and happier (until cosmos), a body-builder who is stronger and stronger (until croissant), a scene which is more and more biodiverse... #dmi25
January 6, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Sabine Niederer and Gabriele Colombo on prompt design strategies such as:
→ Ambiguous prompting for bias research
→ Prompting and counter-prompting
→ Evocative prompting
→ Provocative prompting
→ Comparative reverse-engineered prompting
→ Abstract prompting
#dmi25
January 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM