Jonathan W. Y. Gray
Jonathan W. Y. Gray (@jwyg) explores the roles of 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.
projects
The Data Journalism Handbook
A Field Guide to “Fake News”
MiniVAN
Tracing Public Facts
Organising Participation with Air Pollution Data
Save Our Air
What Can Citizen Generated Data Do?
COVID-19 Testing Situations on Twitter
Digital Methods Recipes
The Fog of Finance
Investigating Infodemic
Data Portal Explorer
Infrastructuring the Lab
Ways of Listening to Forests
Out of the Flames: Mapping the Politics of #AmazonFires
Field Guide to Public Data Projects
Assembling a Global Database on Corporate Taxation
A Field Guide to Algorithms
Atmospheres of Denial
East and Southeast Asians: Documenting a Category in the Making
Mapping the Politics of Nature-Based Solutions
Composing Collective Inquiry
Forest Media Practices
Pluralising Critical Technical Practices
Forestscapes
TikTok and the Romanian Presidential Election
Troubling AI
Repurposing Web Archives
K-platforms
Archiving as method
posts
AI in the street: Lessons from everyday encounters with AI innovation
15 January 2026
Climate Reporting: 5 Tips for Sourcing Stories Online
9 October 2025
forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, 21st March 2025
12 March 2025
Job: Digital Methods Research Associate at Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen
16 December 2024
New chapter on "#amazonfires and the online composition of ecological politics" in Digital Ecologies book
13 December 2024
Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research? Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2025
29 November 2024
troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
24 October 2024
Hybrid event for special issue on critical technical practice(s) in digital research, 10th July 2024
14 June 2024
Critical Technical Practice(s) in Digital Research- special issue in Convergence
24 April 2024
Public Data Lab talk at University of Bucharest
11 April 2024
New article on cross-platform bot studies published in special issue about visual methods
24 March 2024
zeehaven - a tiny tool to convert data for social media research
18 December 2023
New article on GitHub and the platformisation of software development
8 December 2023
Article on COVID-19 testing situations on Twitter published in Social Media + Society
25 September 2023
Call for papers: "Generative Methods: AI as collaborator and companion in the social sciences and humanities", Copenhagen, 6-8th December 2023
3 August 2023
Working paper on "Testing 'AI': Do we have a situation?"
8 June 2023
forestscapes listening lab at re:publica 23, Berlin, 5-7th June
4 June 2023
Network exploration on the web: an interview with Gephi Lite
23 May 2023
"Seven moments with Bruno Latour" by Noortje Marres
8 March 2023
New paper: “Visual Models for Social Media Image Analysis: Groupings, Engagement, Trends, and Rankings”
3 March 2023
Introducing forestscapes and open call for forest sounds
30 January 2023
New article: Staying with the trouble of networks
26 January 2023
Exploring forest hashtags in COP27 Twitter with the European Forest Institute
7 December 2022
"What actually happened? The use and misuse of Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)", Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2023
27 October 2022
Article on "Engaged research-led teaching: composing collective inquiry with digital methods and data"
11 July 2022
“Algorithm Trouble” entry in A New AI Lexicon
24 January 2022
EASST session on 'quali-quantitative' methods in STS
20 January 2022
“Ways of Listening to Forests” workshop at Critical Zones exhibition, ZKM, 26th November 2021
9 November 2021
"Data critique and platform dependencies: How to study social media data?", Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2022
14 October 2021
Investigating infodemic – researchers, students and journalists work together to explore the online circulation of COVID-19 misinformation and conspiracies
9 September 2021