Excited to be part of this new project! 🙌😃

k-platforms: co-developing tools and methods for studying digital platforms and cultures in South Korea What are Korean platforms? What are their histories? How do they compare to platforms elsewhere? How can we do research with and about them? I’m part of a new project on Korean platforms, together Lil...

✨ new project ✨ "k-platforms: codeveloping tools and methods for studying digital platforms and cultures in South Korea" with @lboungr.bsky.social @chamee22.bsky.social & June Jeon jonathangray.org/2026/04/16/k...
#kakao #naver #ai #apps #southkorea #platformstudies #internetstudies

happy tax day

Public Data Cultures a page about Public Data Cultures (Polity Books, 2025)

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📗🐰🌌 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...

wish i could have been there today! 🦔

Image of two great books: Public Data Cultures by Jonathan Gray and Archiving Machines by Amelia Acker

Critical Data Studies always ends up with the best reading list.

much looking forward to reading this! ✨📖

Listening to Jonathan Gray set the scene with a pretty clear argument:

🚂 on way to edinburgh for a book talk on public data cultures at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social ✨🌱💜 efi.ed.ac.uk/event/cds-se...
thanks to @karengregory.bsky.social Morgan Currie @alex-taylor.bsky.social & all involved in hosting me! 🐨

public data cultures at Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick Notes on a visit to the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at University of Warwick for a book talk and PhD symposium.

it was good to be back at @cimethods.bsky.social with Nerea Calvillo, @noortjem.bsky.social, @michael-dieter.bsky.social Sanjay Sharma and many others - thanks so much for having me ✨ jonathangray.org/2026/03/18/cim

This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.

Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.

launch of Digital Investigations Lab Launching the Digital Investigations Lab at King’s College London bringing together researchers and practitioners from academia, civil society, and the arts and media to share and discuss the investig...

launching a new Digital Investigations Lab ✨ jonathangray.org/2026/03/23/d...
co-led by David Young @lboungr.bsky.social & I

Join us for this book talk on Public Data Cultures by Jonathan Gray. The book nurtures criticalengagements with public data as cultural material, medium of participation, and as site of transnational politics.

🗓️ Fri, 27 March, 3pm -5pm
📍Room 1.55, EFI
🎟️ https://edin.ac/46V2BUn

Chia Amisola’s "Elegiac" unfolds browser windows into a generative myth from archived media 🎨🎶📝

Created for the Internet Archive x @GrayArea.org Trillionth Webpage Net Art Commissions, it evokes a web that disappears even as the Archive stays 🌐

More ⤵️
blog.archive.org/internet-arc...

#Wayback1T

... @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)

Resisting Big Tech Empires - Global Justice Now 📅 April 25, 2026 | ⏰ 11am–6pm📍 London. Join international speakers including Cory Doctorow, Anita Gurumurthy and Nick Srnicek to challenge big tech power and explore how we can reclaim technology as a...

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

Low Carbon Research Methods Current research norms are increasingly unsustainable for the planet and scholars alike. Dominant modes of research and research dissemination place a premiu...

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 launches at King's | King's College London Academics from the Department of Digital Humanities lead the new network examining digital infrastructures and climate realities.

🌿 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! ✨

Ways of working with the Wayback Machine - Internet Archive Europe Guest post by Jonathan W. Y. Gray. How do researchers, journalists, and artists work with archived pages from the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine? What kinds of tools, methods, and approaches do th...

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...

notes on transmediale 2026 - By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring some notes and pictures from transmediale 2026 - By the Mango Belt & Tamarind Road: Compassing, Protocoling, Metaphoring

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

Public Data Cultures a page about Public Data Cultures (Polity Books, 2025)

Buy your copy of Public Data Cultures by @jwyg.bsky.social

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.