jonathan w. y. gray

@jwyg

📗 public data cultures 🌱 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· Jul 11

for those in london, so many good things at asymmetry's pubfest this weekend: www.asymmetryart.org/public-progr... look forward to catching Kyungyong Lim from mediabus (Seoul) on "publishing as method". 📖🌌 #london #seoul

poster for asymmetry's publishers festival (pubfest)

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jul 10

how to critically and creatively engage with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of politics? what can we learn from critical approaches to public data practices? @politybooks.bsky.social are giving a 30% discount on public data cultures for #LondonDataWeek. ✨📗🌌🌱 #LDW26

book cover for Public Data Cultures.
text reads: "PDC30 - 30% discount for London Data Week 2026"

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jun 24

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a moon in the top right hand corner: 🌕
followed by some animals: 🐨🐰🐢🐙🦞🐳🦔🐯🦋
and underneath some ice and snowflakes: 🧊❄️🧊❄️🧊❄️🧊❄️🧊❄️🧊❄️🧊❄️🧊❄️🧊❄️🧊

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· May 28

how can we use the internet to study the internet? look forward to co-learning workshop on digital methods for studying internet culture at Seoul National University, 8-9th June 2026 - with @chamee22.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social Jisu Lee & more! ✨🐰🐨🦔🐢🐬 jonathangray.org/2026/05/28/s... #seoul

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· May 9

new project for "trapping rogue AI web crawlers in an infinite self-generating labyrinth of babble" by @julian0liver.bsky.social - including "zip bombs" unpacking from 127mb > 128gb, designed to fill RAM and crash crawlers: julianoliver.com/projects/sci...

screenshot of text from https://scienceispoetry.net/noodles

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Apr 21

look forward to joining @cindyanguyen.bsky.social for a book talk and conversation at UCLA tonight. ✨🌌 more details here: datax.ucla.edu/news-events/... @uclaseis.bsky.social

book covers for bibliotactics and public data cultures

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jan 28

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

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Nov 6

📚🎊✨ 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· Nov 5

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#

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Nov 3

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...

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Oct 23

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· 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 “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/

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· 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

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jul 18

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

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jul 4

look forward to speaking about public data cultures in Lancaster on Wed 9th July ✨ jonathangray.org/2025/07/03/l...

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jun 20

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...

poster for 21st “Summer School on Chinese and International Communication Theories and Methods” at Fudan University

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jun 19

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...

screenshot of https://forest-restoration.eu/

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jun 12

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! 🌱🐨✨

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· May 23

“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...

excepts on “spiritual bliss attractor state” from Anthropic “System Card: Claude Opus 4 & Claude Sonnet 4” (pp. 62-65)

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· May 21

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...

book covers for "Public Data Cultures" and "The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice"

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· May 15

"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...

Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Mar 31

exploring tiny tech futures with @aytc0.bsky.social @aboxiwu.bsky.social @daniadmiss.bsky.social @danbarnard.bsky.social @timcowlishaw.co.uk & more ✨🌱🫧 jonathangray.org/2025/03/31/t...

poster on tiny tech futures. full version available at: https://tinyurl.com/tinytechfutures

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Mar 12

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

an image for forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, Friday 21st March 2025, 6.30pm. There is a collage featuring images of forest related plants, creatures, infrastructures and objects. Concentric circles represent fields of sound. The background is a gradient from purple to yellow. In the top right is an image of the moon.

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Feb 7

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-...

Book cover for "Dark Laboratory: On Columbus, the Caribbean, and the Origins of the Climate Crisis" by Tao Leigh Goffe.

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jan 30

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

Text reads:
"10th STS Italia Conference
POLITECNICO DI MILANO, 11-13 JUNE, 2025
Conference theme
How might we work towards achieving ‘good’ technoscience? How
can we – with our various technologies and ways of knowing, in
diverse environments facing different challenges, across disciplinary
boundaries and wide distances both geographical as well as socio-
cultural, together with Others of all sorts – achieve good relations?"

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jan 28

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

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jan 26

the wonderful critical coding cookbook is now available as an #openaccess pdf ✨🫧💜 criticalcode.recipes featuring recipes from @xinemata.bsky.social @ann9na.bsky.social @joanachicau.bsky.social @renick.bsky.social @rouxpz.bsky.social @autolumi.bsky.social @anu1905.bsky.social @drs.bsky.social & more

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jan 21

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

Screenshot of Thao Phan presenting on "Testing-in-the-wild: innovation nationalism and the colonial dynamics of new technology testbeds" at Centre for Drones and Culture, University of Cambridge.

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jan 6

Richard Rogers on comparing bias and stereotyping harms across regional flagship LLMs: arxiv.org/html/2407.11... #dmi25

Richard Rogers on auditing LLM bias at Digital Methods Winter School 2025.

jonathan w. y. gray@jwyg· Jan 6

Sabine Niederer shows Carlo De Gaetano's emoji charts comparing biodiversity across different generative AI services 🦋🦜🦌🌴🦉🌸 #dmi25