New instance, new #introduction, many hashtags. Hi! I'm an #STS #technopolitics scholar, also thinking w #anthropology #geography #EnvHist #Commodon

This is my non-chattery account for research updates, topics may include:
#feministSTS #multispecies #anticolonial #California #trucks #internet #port #SupplyChain #MediaActivism #labor #FreeRadio #CommunityMedia #SoundStudies #soundscapes #ClimateCrisis #LowPower #LosAngeles #oil #InfrastructureStudies #CriticalLogistics #Radio #FOSS #hacking #Energy #ToxicLA

For anyone interested in #InfrastructureStudies or #CriticalDigitalInfrastructure, this is a fantastic article by Daniel Smith, Ash Kyd, Michael Reid (no relation) and Tim Leslie for the #ABC, uncovering the underwater #fibre #networking cables that provide #internet to Australians, and how they intersect with regional #geopolitics.

There are broader questions here about national capability and technological inter-dependence on other countries

But for me, it was another reminder of how much of our #infrastructure is hidden, unseen, yet able to shape our everyday lives. Surfacing hidden infrastructures helps us think critically about who's shaping those infrastructures, and for what purpose.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/the-cloud-under-the-sea/103137378

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