Jonathan Gray

This article builds on a collaboration on East and Southeast Asians: Documenting a Category in the Making wit…

We sought to answer the following questions: When did the notion of NBS first appear online? Who, corporate o…

Two authors talk about the journey of data reporting from a novelty discipline to an established field of jou…

A case study examining how a team of researchers, journalists and students used digital recipes and data to d…

Labour’s proposals offer an invitation to radically rethink the role that digital infrastructures can play in…

By looking more closely at how fake news moves and mobilizes people, we can develop a richer picture of not o…

A new research report published today looks at the current state and future prospects of a global public data…

There are many social and political repercussions for how data is created and used in 21st-century collective…

Three hundred years after the death of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and seven hundred years after the death of R…

Contemporary data infrastructures have had transformative effects; not only on methods, technologies and stan…

The UK’s higher education institutions spend more than £180m on journal subscriptions every year. We need to …

Climate negotiations should happen in the open, and be accountable to citizens. We're starting to make sure t…

Vast data collection must be reshaped to suit progressive ends.

Students and staff call for a ‘new university’ movement with greater democratisation of higher education and …

On 21 February, thousands of transparency activists, software developers, designers, researchers, public serv…

Opening up information about contracts is an essential step towards an evidence-based debate about UK public …

How do we know that the money we collectively give to our governments is being properly spent? We don't. A ne…

David Cameron's lobbying bill exposes the hollowness of his muscular claims about cracking down on crony capi…

Intended to meet the needs of citizens, the movement has come to embody digital rather than political opennes…

Scholarship is not just about publication, but about interaction, interpretation, exchange, deliberation, dis…

State and corporate interests have sought to crack down on the power to share information digitally. But coul…

In his À la recherche du temps perdu Marcel Proust writes of memories unfurling and unfolding like Japanese p…

Aspiring data journalists and civic data hackers should strive to cut back on data-driven hype and to cultiva…

Yesterday Google marked the 112th birthday of Jorge Luis Borges with this colourful sketch. The sketch allude…