@jwyg
📗 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
... @itforchange.bsky.social @nickdearden.bsky.social @jamesonions.bsky.social @foxglovelegal.bsky.social @balancedeconomy.bsky.social & many more. great to see this gathering of researchers, advocacy groups, think tanks and many others 🐰🦔🐢🥁 (2/2)
look forward to "resisting big tech empires" on 25 April 2026 ✨ www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...
with @globaljusticenow.bsky.social @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @nsrnicek.bsky.social @doctorow.pluralistic.net @danmcquillan.bsky.social @cmmonwealth.bsky.social ⬇️ (1/2)
🆕 Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed
Join us for the launch of @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com's new book: 'Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed', featuring the authors in conversation with IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & PhD Candidate Iacopo Gronchi.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/dlw2Ddw
Title: Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions for the fight against technofascism with authors and research areas
The current moment is characterized by resurgent struggles against technofascism. These struggles include community resistance against data centers, strategic actions against tech companies complicit in genocidal violence, and organizing efforts across many sectors against the proliferation of AI in the workplace. This open panel gathers people engaged in these sites of struggle to collectively consider the following question: how can STS approaches advance these struggles against fascist technopower, and work towards constructing more liberatory futures? In addressing this question, we seek to surface the incipient militant potential of STS, often submerged under scholarship that muddies strategic analysis and disarms political action through the register of subversive critique. Through close attention to relationality and sociality, STS may help build solidarities while unsettling the sedimented categories that impede movement building (Breymen et al, 2017). By incorporating materialist, political economic accounts of technology, STS may help push beyond the boundaries of "ethical tech” by revealing the imbrications of economic and financial processes with technoscience (Birch, 2013). And as a roving, interdisciplinary field attuned to embodied and situated practices (Haraway, 1988), an STS lens may help ensure that analyses are constantly attentive to the lively contingencies of on-the-ground struggles.
We seek to explore theories born through political struggle, and examples of how STS theory informs praxis. Submissions may include, but are not limited to: strategic reflections from organizers and activists; historical accounts that can inform future organizing and activism; or the analysis of organizing artefacts (e.g., propaganda, slogans, campaigns) and their role in advancing political struggle. We will facilitate this panel as an open discussion among folks situated across different sites of struggle, aiming to provide a space for advancing the struggle against technofascism through the development of relationships, theories, and strategic insights.
hi STS people! are you engaged in political struggle against fascism? do you have things to share: strategic reflections, organizing artefacts, etc.? do you have thoughts about how we will win? if so, you should submit something to our open panel at 4S this year! www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
looking forward to being back in Edinburgh! ✨
Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester:
March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures
April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage
April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep
See eventbrites below
Join us for a book talk on Public Data Cultures by Jonathan Gray. EFI 2.35 from 3-5pm
@edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social
Our book is published!!!
mitpress.mit.edu/978191598348...
There is supposed to be an open access version available, which does not seem to be actually available, and which I am doggedly pursing, but for now: hurrah! Print enjoyers, get your copies!
🌿 Digital X Climates network has officially launched at King's 🌎
Led by academics from @kingsdh.bsky.social, it is dedicated to advancing research, dialogue and public engagement on the entanglements of digital technologies with environmental, social and political ecologies.
Find out more ⬇️
And if you're interested in keeping in touch about next steps, there's a new email list here: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/weba...
thanks to @lboungr.bsky.social @silvertje.bsky.social @fvandervlist.bsky.social for additional input to the writeup! 🌌
enjoyed this "wayback studio" moment at @internetarchive.eu with @anthbrtn.com @iiil.li @idilg.bsky.social @hetsalwel.bsky.social @esthrr.bsky.social @digitalmethods.net @d-eepculture.bsky.social @publicdatalab.bsky.social @digitalculturekcl.bsky.social & many more! ✨
How do researchers, journalists & artists work with the Wayback Machine?
At a recent gathering in Amsterdam, we explored how web archives support digital investigations, platform research & media art — and how we can build better tools & collaborations.
👉 www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w...
some notes, pictures & links from @transmediale.bsky.social 2026 - By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring ✨🌌💜🍵 jonathangray.org/2026/02/15/t...
#transmediale #tm26
Monday night was a great night's work with the event at @internetarchive.eu HQ in Amsterdam. @jwyg.bsky.social talked about his research and launched his new book "Public Data Cultures". Looking forward to more events in the near future.
On Monday I was at @internetarchive.eu in Amsterdam for @jwyg.bsky.social talk about his new book, Public Data Cultures. Instant purchase!
A man stands at a podium with a screen behind him, and speaks to the audience sitting in the room in front of him.
A man stands at a podium with a screen behind him.
A man smiles as he asks a question from the audience.
A man with glasses asks a question while others in the audience ponder the topic at hand.
It was a distinct pleasure to welcome @jwyg.bsky.social to our HQ in Amsterdam for his book talk on his newly released book "Public Data Cultures". Thank you to everyone who came, listened intently, asked intelligent questions, bought his book and created a wonderful community event on Monday.
looking forward to "wayback studio" exploring tools, methods and approaches for critically and creatively repurposing web archives tomorrow with @internetarchive.eu ✨
then an evening talk on public data cultures: jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/i...
a new digital ecologies network ✨🌱
jonathangray.org/2026/02/04/d...
with Anna Watkins Fisher, @slehuede.bsky.social @tavmos.bsky.social Maud Borie @lboungr.bsky.social @mikeduggan4.bsky.social @yuanpan90.bsky.social @paoloruffino.bsky.social David Young @joannazylinska.bsky.social & Feng Zhu
looking forward to this book talk on Public Data Cultures at @internetarchive.eu in Amsterdam on this coming Monday 9th February 2026 ✨ jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/i...
how is the wayback machine used in digital investigations? @lboungr.bsky.social, Thais Lobo and I looked at 9 ways of using web archives to tell stories about what is deleted, altered, banned, broken, hacked and more: blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/f...
@archive.org @internetarchive.eu #osint
Logo of the Internet Archive WayBack Machine, in black and red text on a white background.
Journalists don’t just report from the web anymore—they report on it 🕵️♀️
Learn 9 Ways Web Archives Are Used In Digital Investigations on how reporters track deleted pages, uncover hidden connections, document edits & follow what vanishes,
Read FOLLOW THE CHANGES ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/f...
Today at CDL/ @humboldtuni.bsky.social: We look forward to welcoming @jwyg.bsky.social (King's College) for a talk and discussion of Jonathan's recent book "Public Data Cultures", from 2PM: medienwissenschaft-berlin.org/public-data-...
some notes on Chia Amisola's Internet Ambient - exploring the web's "ecologies, defaults, opacities and territories" ✨ jonathangray.org/2026/01/24/c...
next week I'll be talking about Public Data Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin - thanks so much to @algorhythm.bsky.social for the invitation! ✨ jonathangray.org/2026/01/29/h...
ahh nice - let's hang out! will dm you :)
yeh! shame didn’t work out to join & hope to see you soon! ✨
see you soon! ✨
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