jonathan w. y. gray

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.

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...

ahh - I believe the ebook will be available in December! 🌱

Public Data Cultures a page about Public Data Cultures (Polity Books, 2025)

ahh - thanks for your interest! did you try links here? jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

🌱📗 exploring public data cultures with School of Communications and Arts, University of São Paulo on 4th Dec jonathangray.org/2025/11/24/s...
#publicdatacultures

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 “Ruha Benjamin, Technology, A NEW ERA for New York City”

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.

zine on growing group care Liliana Bounegru, Pippa Sterk and I recently organised a project on “growing group care”. As part of the project we cocreated a zine with our students - Abi Abosejo, Adja Seck, Cong Fu, Ellie Jennings...

how to support care in group learning? @lboungr.bsky.social @pippasterk.bsky.social and I co-organised a project on “growing 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...

🎊 exciting news!

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 “openness to achieve digital justice: experiments, promises, and flaws” w...

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 Séverine Dusollier, Yochai Benkler, @ceciliarikap.bsky.social, Léo Pascault, Balazs Bodo and @arisimarta.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...

aww thanks so much @timdavies.org.uk 💜🌱 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. 🍵✨

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! 🍵💜

Archiving Machines Archiving Machines advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data ...

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!

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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🗃 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

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

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...

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

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....

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...

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

thanks so much Meredith! 💜

Jonathan Gray's new book, "Public Data Cultures"

Congrats on your new book @jwyg.bsky.social!

book covers for Nick Srnicek's Silicon Empires, Maya Ganesh's Auto-Correct and Jonathan W. Y. Gray's Public Data Cultures.

📚🎊✨ 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

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...

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!

Stacks and intersections! New article on intersectional feminist DH by our director and colleagues now available to read in @dhquarterly.bsky.social ⬇️

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

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/...

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#

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

🌐🚨 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

cover of "resisting AI"

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...

‘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 👇

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.

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! 🦔🌌💜

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/

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

📢 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