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Public Data Lab

@publicdatalab.bsky.social
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Interdisciplinary research network developing materials and formats for collective inquiry with & about digital data, digital methods & digital infrastructures. publicdatalab.org

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Come and join us for a fun early evening exploration of the AI in the Street project, feat. Yasmine Boudiaf, Mukul Patel, Noortje Marres, Alex Taylor, @halcyene.bsky.social @tmsqrll.bsky.social, Dominique Barron, Annie Radcliffe and me at Newspeak House luma.com/p4fmir78
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AI in the street: lessons from everyday encounters with AI innovation 
Join us for an early evening exploration 
4pm - Creative diagramming workshop 
5pm - project presentation 
5:20pm Panel discussion feat Careful Industries, Ada Lovelace Inst, the LGA, and Foxglove Legal 
6pm: Drinks and networking 
4pm - 7pm, 27 January at Newspeak House
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
looking forward to winter book events for public data cultures in coming months ❄️📗💜✨ jonathangray.org/2026/01/05/b... including with @digitalmethods.net @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social @internetarchive.eu @unioftheartslondon.bsky.social @cimethods.bsky.social @mctd.bsky.social #dmi26
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winter book events for public data cultures ❄️📗
Looking forward to some winter book events for public data cultures in coming weeks and months. ❄️📗
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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
✨job✨ assistant or associate professorship in platform studies at medialab, University of Geneva. Deadline 1st September. publicdatalab.org/2025/06/26/p...
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Professeur-e en "Etudes des plateformes numériques (platform Studies)" (6417)
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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
✨ Grateful for the invitation to speak at Seoul National University next week w/ @jwyg.bsky.social on digital methods, critical data practice, @publicdatalab.bsky.social‬, and the Data Journalism Handbook (buff.ly/bYrnCzC). Excited to learn from SNU colleagues in STS & digital media and culture!
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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
applications open for Summer School in Digital Methods for Critical Consumer Studies in Como, 22-26 September 2025: publicdatalab.org/2025/05/28/c...
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Summer School in Digital Methods for Critical Consumer Studies - Applications open – Public Data Lab
The Public Data Lab is an interdisciplinary network exploring what difference the digital makes in attending to public problems.
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
"Public Data Cultures" now has a cover! It nurtures critical and creative engagements with data as cultural material, medium of participation and site of transnational politics. Out with @politybooks.bsky.social this autumn & now available for pre-order. 🌱📗✨🎊💜 jonathangray.org/publicdatacu...
Book cover for Public Data Cultures (Polity, forthcoming 2025).
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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
What next for Memespector-GUI? Seeking feedback and input to inform next steps with this #opensource tool providing a graphical user interface for research with and about computer vision APIs: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/13/m...
Screenshot of Memespector GUI tool.
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Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society @edcdcs.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Join us at EFI to hear @jwyg.bsky.social & @lboungr.bsky.social of @publicdatalab.bsky.social as they share their work developing collaborative methods - 'Repurposing digital media for collective inquiry – notes from the Public Data Lab (2017-2025)' *4pm, 2nd April* edin.ac/3DCDVEF
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Anders Kristian Munk @akmunk.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📢 🚨PHD POSITION📢🚨 lnkd.in/dxVWYx4c ⚡❤️ Computational anthropology, 🤖😀 human-centred AI, and 🏴‍☠️🗿 cultural value alignment with LLMs. Come work with me (supervisor), @britwinthereik.bsky.social (co-supervisor), and the team @echodtu.bsky.social and HCI. Deadline May 1, 2025 Starting August 1, 2025
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Looking forward to forestscapes listening lab at @scigallerylon.bsky.social's Pulse of the Planet, Friday 21 March, 6.30pm: publicdatalab.org/2025/03/12/f... with @maudbo.bsky.social @lboungr.bsky.social @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social & Angela YT Chan
an image for forestscapes listening lab at Science Gallery London, Friday 21st March 2025, 6.30pm. There is a collage featuring images of forest related plants, creatures, infrastructures and objects. Concentric circles represent fields of sound. The background is a gradient from purple to yellow. In the top right is an image of the moon.
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Liliana Bounegru @lboungr.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
🔍 How can creative coding techniques like soundscaping and video recomposition help us unpack political issues + influencer practices on TikTok? 🎵📹 📖 Insights from explorations w/ @publicdatalab.bsky.social around the 2024 Romanian elections at @digitalmethods.net winter school:
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The great Romanian election TikTok replay – Public Data Lab
In December 2024, the European Commission launched an investigation following “serious indications that foreign actors interfered in the Romanian presidential elections using TikTok.” The elections…
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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
✨job✨ - the Media of Cooperation Research Centre at the University of Siegen is hiring a Digital Methods Research Associate. Read more and apply here: publicdatalab.org/2024/12/16/j...
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Job: Digital Methods Research Associate at Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen – Public Data Lab
The Media of Cooperation Research Centre at the University of Siegen is hiring a Digital Methods Research Associate. Further details can be found here and copied below. [- – – – – – – ✄ – – – snip – –...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
publication day of ✨digital ecologies✨ book - including our chapter with @lboungr.bsky.social @gabrielecolombo.bsky.social on #amazonfires and the online composition of ecological politics: jonathangray.org/2024/12/10/a...
Tracing variations and different visual articulations of pre-2003 burning forest image shared by Macron and others in association with 2019 Amazon fires. The image shows variations of the same image clustered into different sections (labelled A, B, C). Some ofthem have text, some of them have overlaid elements and characters.
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Have you got a screenshot of an encounter with AI which is unsettling, strange, surprising, laughable or troubling? Still time to submit to our call for screenshots! A selection will be featured in an online publication and workshop. Deadline end of 10th Dec (any time zone): troubling-ai.glitch.me
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troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸
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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The @digitalmethods.net Winter School in Amsterdam will take place on 6-10th January 2025 with the theme “Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?”. Apply by 9th December. 📝✨ publicdatalab.org/2024/11/29/d... #digitalmethods
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Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research? Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2025 – Public Data Lab
The annual Digital Methods Winter School in Amsterdam will take place on 6-10th January 2025 with the theme “Chatbots and LLMs for Internet Research?”. The deadline for applications is 9 December 2024...
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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
do you have screenshots of troubling interactions with AI? submit them to our call for screenshots to be featured in an online publication and workshop - now extended until 10th december 2024: publicdatalab.org/2024/10/24/t...
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Public Data Lab @publicdatalab.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
hiii! 👋🏼 We're an interdisciplinary research network developing materials and formats for collective inquiry with and about digital data, methods and infrastructures - from forest soundscaping and climate media to offshore finance, political bots and algorithmic culture. (Also suspended on Twitter/X)
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