jonathan w. y. gray

📢 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

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

much looking forward to this later today! ✨💜

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

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

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. 💜📗🎊

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.

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.

glad to hear this resonated! 💜📖

✨ 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...

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).

📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025

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#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring

📢 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

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#AcademicJobs

picture of piece on "data not found" in CURSOR mag

a little piece on "data not found" in latest edition of CURSOR, a cyberfeminist micro magazine: jonathangray.org/2025/07/18/c...

If you teach data studies or critical/creative data practices and you're potentially interested in adopting "Public Data Cultures" on a course you teach - let me know! 💌 Polity have asked for teachers and courses for sending out review copies. ✨

it's been 3 months since @aboxiwu.bsky.social and I sowed some seeds in our tiny tech futures garden thanks to @daniadmiss.bsky.social, Arts Catalyst, flematu sessay and all the greats we continue to learn from and dream with 🌱 💚

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

📚 I look forward to giving a workshop next week on critical data practices and digital media research methods with @jwyg.bsky.social‬ at the 2025 Fudan University Summer School on Communication Theory and Research Methods in Shanghai.

#criticaldatastudies #communicationstudies #researchmethods

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

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...

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

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...

✨ Grateful for the invitation to speak at Seoul National University next week w/ @jwyg.bsky.social on digital methods, critical data practice, @publicdatalab.bsky.social‬, and the Data Journalism Handbook (buff.ly/bYrnCzC). Excited to learn from SNU colleagues in STS & digital media and culture!

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! 🌱🐨✨

Conference Design RESAW25, Siegen, June 4-6, 2025

🕸️ I am really looking forward to THE DATAFIED WEB conference now (while the buzz of #rp25 is slowly fading).

The preconference is starting tomorrow!

The full RESAW 2025 program can be viewed on our conference website 👉 datafiedweb.net. Hashtag is #RESAW25 on Mastodon & elsewhere. See you in a bit!

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

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

“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...

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

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...

The Data Journalism Handbook The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a…

📚 I look forward to speaking this Thursday at the University of Milan-Bicocca about The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice - a book I had the privilege to co-edit with @jwyg.bsky.social buff.ly/JRywQB8

🔗 Event details:
buff.ly/njsCoF6

This is going to be an amazing book!

This is really very good - I was lucky to get some sneak peaks at a few chapters - really comprehensive and enjoyable to read, I'm looking forward to getting my paws on a whole copy 📖🤓

Thanks again for looking at it and for sharing! 😌💜

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

"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...

Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal The Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Digital Culture at King’s College London are delighted to host the launch of the DISCO Network’s Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refus...

📚 Join us at King’s College London on 21 May for the launch of Technoskepticism: Between Possibility and Refusal, a book by @disconetwork.bsky.social exploring the possibilities that technoskepticism can create.

📍 Strand Campus and online, 17:30
🔗 Sign up: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/techn...

Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities delivered by Professor Roopika Risam, Dartmouth College.

Excited to welcome Prof @roopikarisam.bsky.social for a talk on "Everything Is Awful, But Maybe We Can Change Things: Digital Humanities in Times of Crisis" on 1st May 2025: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/every...