#criticaldatastudies — Public Fediverse posts

Happy to share my newest writing «Missing Data as Political Force» with you.

While "missing data" is often considered a problem, as in the context of adequate representation, the current authoritarian wave shows that data can offer recognition and oppression. For example, ICE's brutal use of personal data to target individuals with migration backgrounds. Conversely, restricting access to data and services can be employed as political pressure.

To navigate this "paradox of exposure" (as coined by Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein) and missing data's relational nature (as argued by Alessandra Jungs de Almeida), I draw on theories of social and data justice, namely Bonnycastle’s continuum of social justice and Fraser’s abnormal justice, to show how missing data lies between social equality and oppression and can be analysed based on (mis)distribution, (mis)recognition, and (mis)representation.

• Full Issue: https://www.diid.it/diid/index.php/diid/issue/view/diid-87
• My paper: https://www.diid.it/diid/index.php/diid/article/view/frischknecht

#criticaldatastudies #datactivism #missingdata #politicalforce

Special Issue “Big Visual Data als neue Form des Wissens” – jetzt online-first
Die Einleitung zum Sonderheft der Schweizerischen Zeitschrift für Soziologie ist jetzt verfügbar. Sechs Beiträge erkunden Potenziale & Herausforderungen visueller Daten in der Wissensproduktion. Print: Juli 2025.
👉 https://www.socio-journal.ch/article/view/7178/7919
#BigImageData #Wissensproduktion #Epistemologie #Soziologie #CriticalDataStudies #CriticalAlgorithmStudies

"In recent years, critical data studies from the Global South have gained traction, generating debates on power, knowledge production, and the politics of data. While these discussions challenge universalist frameworks, they also risk essentializing the ‘Global South’, requiring a more nuanced approach. This special issue centres Latin America as a site of theoretical, methodological, and empirical inquiry, highlighting its potential to generate new insights into datafication, power, and artificial intelligence. Rather than treating Latin America as a passive recipient of Global North theories, this issue foregrounds its epistemological and methodological contributions to global debates. Engaging with frameworks such as capitalism, coloniality, and dependency theory, the articles explore the region's heterogeneity and intellectual traditions in social sciences, humanities, and science and technology studies. This introduction proposes a research agenda for Latin American critical data studies – one that reflects historical legacies while envisioning possible data futures through interdisciplinary and critical engagement. It interrogates the politics of knowledge production, emphasizing the need for non-extractive, dialogical approaches to studying data in, from, and with Latin America. By centering Latin American scholarship and experiences, this special issue challenges dominant narratives in critical data studies and offers alternative theoretical perspectives that are globally informed yet locally grounded."

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20539517251330160

#LatinAmerica #GlobalSouth #CriticalDataStudies #STS #AI #Datafication #Capitalism #Coloniality #DependencyTheory

Happy to share that a few weeks ago I successfully defended my dissertation as the first doctoral student of Digital Humanities at the University of Bern (insigni cum laude).

My study under the title «Generative Data Design: Data Visualization as Argumentative Process in The Digital Humanities» developed a practical and critical design method that conceptualizes data visualization as an argumentative process (contrary to the idea of visualizations being neutral and objective) supporting the interpretation of digital cultural heritage collections.

A great thank you goes to my supervisors Tobias Hodel and Ulrike Felsing (University of Bern) as well as Kurt Fendt (MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing). And of course to all my friends, family and colleagues who supported this journey in a diversity of ways. 🙏

Next up: Publication process.

#digitalhumanities #datavisualization #criticaldatastudies #generativedesign #desingresearch

👉 𝗗𝗼𝗻’𝘁 𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁 – 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁 𝗻𝗼𝘄! Learn more and register today: https://impact.dataschool.nl/events/making-a-difference-societal-impact-through-collaborative-research/

#CriticalDataStudies #Academia #ActionResearch #SocietalChange #CollaborativeResearch

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

Glad to be part of new #openaccess book on "Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society" edited by @gastev @kfvanes @TraceyPLauriault on @AmsterdamUPress.

Here's my chapter on “Speculative Data Infrastructures: Prototyping a Public Database on Corporate Tax Avoidance”: https://jonathangray.org/2024/10/11/speculative-data-infrastructures

#mediastudies #taxjustice #taxavoidance #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #criticaldatapractice #teaching #commodon #sts #newmedia #internetstudies

Data Stories now has a Call for Papers on #ResearchCreation and #CriticalDataStudies for the #AAG2025 Annual Meeting in Detroit. Please see our blog for further details: https://datastories.maynoothuniversity.ie/?p=444

Our members @danvers and @DrPinkeee have organised a talk with the title “You’ve gotta fight for your rights!”.

Join them on June 25 (online and at Uni Bielefeld) to learn how to enact your #datarights!

#dataliteracy #criticaldatastudies #datafication #digitalselfdefense
@medienbildung

Register for free: https://www.bigdataliteracy.net/2024/06/11/youve-gotta-fight-for-your-rights/

@sts #STS #Professorship #call at #GoetheUniversity, Frankfurt/Germany.

Are you interested in Critical Reflection and/or Governance of Computational Technologies?

consider applying at Frankfurt to work with us
https://www.c3s-frankfurt.de/workshop-2

#Computation
#digitalisation
#digital
#CriticalDataStudies
#Code

#ScienceAndTechnologyStudies

A new paper on AI incidents and 'networked trouble' from our PhD researcher Tommy Shane: https://kingsdh.net/2023/12/20/ai-incidents-networked-trouble/

#ai #artificialintelligence #aitrouble #algorithms #algorithmstudies #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #digitalmethods #trouble #feministsts #sts #mediastudies #commodon

hey folks, collecting together evidence that we're doing something. could you let me know if you are using my work, or the Global Data Justice project's work to teach with, or for anything else interesting? thanks!
#datagovernance #privacy #datajustice #ai #criticaldatastudies

Do you research how data are repaired and cared for in everyday ways?

@Ch_Hogberg, @robkitchin and I would love for you to join us at Nordic STS in June. The deadline for abstract submissions is this Wednesday, March 1.

https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/english/research/news-and-events/events/conferences/2023/nordic-sts/accepted-panels.html

#data #datastudies #criticaldatastudies #sts #mediastudies #digitalhumanities

Looking forward to visiting Berlin for a fellowship and workshop on "Environmental Data, Media, and the Humanities" in May - focusing on repurposing forest media: https://jonathangray.org/2023/02/22/berlin-fellowship

@maximilian @lbngr
@dh_potsdam

#berlin #sts #datastudies #mediaart #digitalmethods #ecologies #feministsts #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #newmedia #digitalculture #commodon #platformstudies #softwarestudies
#algorithmstudies #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #datapractices #datastudies #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #forests #formats #freesoftware #newmediaart #newmediastudies #soundscapes #environmentalhumanities

How can problems with network practices can be taken as invitations to attend to the diverse settings in which network graphs are created and used?

New article by @jwyg
and @lbngr in our department together with Daniela van Geenen @tommv @jacomyma and Axel Meunier: https://kingsdh.net/2023/02/07/new-article-staying-with-the-trouble-of-networks/

#networks #networkpractices #gephi #openaccess #datapractices #trouble #criticaldatastudies #criticaldatapractice #commodon #mediastudies #dataviz

✨📝New article✨ "Staying with the trouble of networks" by Daniela van Geenen, Jonathan Gray (@jwyg), Liliana Bounegru (@lbngr), Tommaso Venturini (@tommv), Mathieu Jacomy (@jacomyma) and Axel Meunier: https://publicdatalab.org/2023/01/26/staying-with-trouble-networks/

#openaccess #networks #datapractices #gephi #trouble #criticaldatastudies #criticaldatapractice #commodon #mediastudies #dataviz

in case useful for anyone teaching or learning data journalism this semester, here are some resources and links that we share with our students at @kingsdh:

https://jwyg.github.io/awesome-data-journalism/

#datapractices #datajournalism #ddj #datastudies #criticaldatapractice #criticaldatastudies #journalism #journodon #commodon

As fully autonomous ships get closer to reality, fleet operators imagine operations centers where a single “captain” can oversee multiple vessels. Found this video fascinating. https://youtu.be/UPtdgiIrlJI #criticalinfrastructrestudies #criticallogistics #criticaldatastudies

My latest piece for Logic Magazine is available! What happens when ships become data? A lot of weird stuff, possibly. https://logicmag.io/pivot/ghost-ships/

#criticalinfrastructrestudies #criticallogistics #criticaldatastudies

I have an article, “Ghost Ships,” in the new issue of Logic. It’s about why global shipping runs on paper, the gold rush to change that, and the Middle Passage. I believe it’ll be available openly at some point, but you can buy it in print or digitally now: https://logicmag.io/pivot/ #criticallogistics #criticainfrastructure #logistics #criticaldatastudies

#ResearchTopic
#CfP 

Open for #Submissions 📢



#Postpandemic Technopolitical Democracies



🗓️15 January 2023 for manuscripts


👉https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/28882/postpandemic-technopolitical-democracies

#geography #digitalgeography #politicalgeography #politicalscience #COVID #technopolitics #democracy #datasovereignty #digitalrights #datacooperatives #biosurveillance #smartcities #CriticalDataStudies #misinformation #cybercontrol

#AcademicMastodon

Hey friends. I'm a 4th year PhD Candidate at the #Umich School of Information. Researching the Big Tech-ification of the U.S. healthcare industry. Some tags I guess to make myself findable: #feministHCI #STS #criticaldatastudies #platformstudies

👋 Re-introducing myself as more folks come to Mastodon.

📚 I study health and other inequities, especially how technologies and media shape them.

#healthjustice #healthcommunication #algorithmstudies #criticaldatastudies #datastudies #bioethics #mediastudies #STS #feministSTS #digitalhealth #platformstudies #socialmedia #AI #communicationstudies #criticaltheory #feminism #internetresearch #newmedia #commodon #health #surveillance #privacy #medialaw #popularculture #filmstudies #digitaldivide

...and here's my hashtag bio:

#commodon #soundstudies #remix #copyright #scifi #dataethics #STS #AIethics #music #uprightbass #jazz #reggae #ska #antifascist #antiracist #mediastudies #criticaldatastudies #platforms #mediaindustries #surveillance #privacy #communicationlaw #communicationpolicy #futurism #internetresearch #culturalstudies #socialtheory #academia #highered #DC #Maryland #Brooklyn

Happy to be on Mastodon!

A bit about me: I study health inequities, especially how technologies and media shape them.

#healthjustice #healthcommunication #algorithmstudies #criticaldatastudies #datastudies #bioethics #feministbioethics #mediastudies #STS #feministSTS #digitalhealth #platformstudies #socialmedia #AI #communicationstudies #criticaltheory #feminism #internetresearch #newmedia #wellbeing #health #surveillance #privacy #medialaw #popularculture #filmstudies #digitaldivide

an #introduction ... 📝

my work explores the role of digital data, methods and infrastructures in the composition of collective life.

i'm currently focusing on...
- 📘 a book on public data practices
- 🌳 arts-based digital methods for exploring environmental issues
- 🐌 a special issue on critical technical practices in digital research
- 🗃 documenting online mobilisations of east and southeast asian communities in the uk

i'm senior lecturer in critical infrastructure studies at the department of digital humanities, king's college london; cofounder of publicdatalab.org; and research associate at digitalmethods.net + medialab.sciencespo.fr.

more at: http://jonathangray.org/

tag heap: #algorithmstudies #antiracism #aoir #archiving #art #climatechange #commons #compost #criticaldatastudies #criticaltechnicalpractice #criticaltheory #datapractices #datastudies #decolonisation #digitalcommons #digitalculture #digitalhumanities #ecology #feminism #feministsts #forests #formats #freesoftware #infrastructurestudies #internetstudies #issuemapping #london #lowtech #newmediaart #newmediastudies #participatorydesign #philosophy #platformstudies #scienceandtechnologystudies #socialtheory #softwarestudies #soundscapes #speculativefiction #sts #zines

I'm looking for critical papers/articles on collaborative office software (GDocs, Office 365), perhaps as part of platform capitalism.

Any pointers appreciated.
#mastohelp #mediastudies #softwarestudies #criticaldatastudies