Book event: Public Data Cultures
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Join us for a book talk on Public Data Cultures.
The book nurtures critical and creative engagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation and as site of transnational politics. It explores how activists, journalists, artists and others work with public data as well as looking at how critical perspectives can make a difference in practice.
After a short book talk, there will be a collective discussion moment and time to catch up with others with overlapping curiosities.
"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
About the author: Jonathan W. Y. Gray explores the roles digital data, methods and infrastructures in shaping how we know and live together. He is the author of Public Data Cultures (Polity, 2025). At King's College London, he is Reader in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities and co-director of the Centre for Digital Culture. He is also co-founder of the Public Data Lab; research associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris); and has taught with the School for Poetic Computation in NYC. More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org.
Contact name: Laszlo Horvath
Speakers- Jonathan Gray
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