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  taking cue from other field gatherings, some #scienceandtechnologystudies (#STS) accounts to follow: https://jwyg.github.io/mastodon-sts/ who else can we add? 🍄💾🍂🎛🌱📡🏮🐛🧪🚲🌲☁️🗂 @Aepasek @brunostrasser @cassandreces @cbj @chanders @ckohtala @EstherTurnhout@mastodon.social @i_ngli @inquiline@mastodon.social @jonathansterne @k8henne@mastodon.social @maxliboiron@mastodon.lol @NoortjeMarres @samday@climatejustice.social @shobitap @stefanlaser @tscriado @tneale @WarrenPearce

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  new article on "pluralising critical technical practice" with Daniela van Geenen and @kfvanes has just been published in Convergence: https://jonathangray.org/2023/12/12/pluralising-ctp we'll add full details & links for the special issue here when it is out 👀 https://publicdatalab.org/projects/pluralising-critical-technical-practices/ #criticaltechnicalpractice #internetstudies #datastudies #artificialintelligence #digitaldevices #digitalmethods #inventivem...

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  launch of special issue on critical technical practices in digital research this afternoon! 🎊 https://jonathangray.org/2024/07/10/ctp-special-issue

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  "The algorithmic uncanny is the feeling of unease or disorientation that can arise when we encounter the workings of algorithms in our daily lives. An algorithm is a set of instructions or rules that are used to perform a specific task, such as sorting data or making predictions. Algorithms are widely used in digital technologies, such as search engines, social media platforms, and online recommendation systems, to process and analyze data in order to provide us with information, servic...

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  How can soundscapes be used as a way to attend to forest life and the many different ways that we narrate and relate to forests? The forestscapes project aims to explore and document generative arts-based methods for recomposing collections of sound materials to support “collective inquiry” into forests as living cultural landscapes. As part of the project we have an open call for folders of forest sounds. More at: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/07/forestscapes #forests #listening #soundsc...

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  Any Berlin recommendations for May/June? So far we've been absorbed by Zabriskie's bookshelves; Indigo Waves at Gropius Bau; Hito Steyerl's Animal Spirits; and looking forward to O Quilombismo at Kulturen der Welt; Cao Fei at Sprüth Magers; Zineb Sedira at Hamburger Bahnhof... Here for a few weeks for a fellowship at Potsdam + forestscapes installation at @republica - and looking forward to catching up with friends... https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowshi...

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  How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: https://troubling-ai.glitch.me #ai #genai #chatgpt #midjourney #mediastudies #internetstudies #artificialintelligence

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  Public Data Cultures is out today on @politybooks ! 📗🎊 https://jonathangray.org/2025/10/23/public-data-cultures 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! 🦔🌌💜

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  🌱📗 book launch for "public data cultures" with Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint in Amsterdam on 7th January: https://jonathangray.org/2025/11/28/amsterdam #dmi26 #digitalmethods

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  it was great to be back at @cimethods with Nerea Calvillo @NoortjeMarres @mdieter @sanjay_digital and many others - thanks so much for having me ✨ https://jonathangray.org/2026/03/18/cim

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  🚂 on way to edinburgh for a book talk on public data cultures tomorrow, 27th March 3-5pm ✨🌱💜 https://efi.ed.ac.uk/event/cds-seminar-series-jonathan-gray/ thanks to @karengregory Morgan Currie @alextaylor & all involved in hosting me! 🐨 #edinburgh #publicdatacultures

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  back in Copenhagen! ✨ if you’re in vicinity, there will be a joint book launch for Public Data Cultures at DTU Wed 8th April. then heading to Aarhus University for book talk with Centre for Critical Data Practices on Thu 9th April. links & details📗🐰🌌 https://jonathangray.org/publicdatacultures#book-talks

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  how are networked environments designing, capturing, and capitalising on ways of being social? call for participation from PhD / early career research workshop at @transmediale https://transmediale.de/en/news/research-workshop-2025

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  The first four books on our Amsterdam University Press digital studies series (of which I’m a founding editor) have been published - all #openaccess 🎊📚💜 https://jonathangray.org/2024/07/25/aup-digital-studies This includes books on the platformisation of consumer culture, algorithmic regimes, feminist futures of work and critical data practices.

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  New #openaccess book on "Dialogues in Data Power" edited by @juliane and @J0bates 🎊 I contributed to a chapter on “In/visibilities in Data Studies: Methods, Tools, and Interventions”: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/17/invisibilities-data-studies #datastudies #criticaldatastudies

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  launching a new Digital Investigations Lab ✨ https://jonathangray.org/2026/03/23/digital-investigations-lab co-led by @dv @lbngr & me

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  "Un-indexing forest media: repurposing search query results to reconsider forest-society relations" with @gabrielecolombo is out in cultural geographies journal: https://jonathangray.org/2023/06/21/unindexing-forest-media #digitalecologies #environmentalhumanities #envhums #sts #commodon #newmedia #forests #geography #digitalmethods #digitalhumanities #search #indexing #unindexing

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  To what extent can public datasets address questions related to urgent issues? We're exploring this with "datatesting" a new @digitalgoodnet@mastodon.world project with Global Data Barometer, Silvana Fumega, Amy Johnson, @esimperl, @ODIHQ, @centrefordigitalculture @kingsdh & more! https://jonathangray.org/2024/11/05/datatesting

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  ☃️ snowy book launch for public data cultures at the digital methods winter school in amsterdam ❄️🌌💜✨ some notes and pics: https://jonathangray.org/2026/01/12/dmi26 #dmi26

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  happy to be starting research leave from jan til june 🐰🎊🌱✨ in the spirit of sharing, here are some things i'll be spending time on: https://jonathangray.org/2026/01/15/research-leave

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  looking forward to opening of transmediale tonight! https://transmediale.de/en #transmediale #tm26

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  next week I'll be talking about Public Data Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin - thanks so much to @algorhythmics for the invitation! ✨ https://jonathangray.org/2026/01/29/humboldt-berlin

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  some notes on Chia Amisola @chia's Internet Ambient - exploring the web's "ecologies, defaults, opacities and territories" ✨ https://jonathangray.org/2026/01/24/chia-amisola

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  how is the Wayback Machine used in digital investigations? @lbngr, Thais Lobo and I explored thousands of news articles to see how they use web archives to tell stories about what is deleted, altered, banned, broken, hacked and more: https://blog.archive.org/2026/02/02/follow-the-changes/ with @internetarchive @internetarchiveeurope #osint

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  looking forward to this book event for Public Data Cultures at the @internetarchiveeurope in Amsterdam on this coming Monday 9th February 2026: https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/internet-archive

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  a new digital ecologies network ✨🌱 https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/04/digital-ecologies with Anna Watkins Fisher @slehuede Güneş Tavmen @Maudbo @lbngr Mike Duggan @dv @joanna Feng Zhu

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  looking forward to "wayback studio" exploring tools, methods and approaches for critically and creatively repurposing web archives tomorrow with @internetarchiveeurope ✨ then an evening book event on public data cultures: https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/02/internet-archive

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  some notes, pictures & links from transmediale/ 2026 - By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring ✨🌌💜🍵 https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/15/transmediale #transmediale #tm26

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  How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine? We had a "wayback studio" in Amsterdam to explore this with friends and colleagues at @internetarchiveeurope @publicdatalab @centrefordigitalculture & more - some notes here: https://jonathangray.org/2026/02/18/wayback-amsterdam