Jay Owens is a writer and researcher based in London, UK. Her work explores dust and digital media – both complex, ambivalent ecosystems where grand technological dreams come to clash with messier practical realities. Jay is a former Research Director at the audience insight platform Pulsar, helping media and technology companies (including Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, & Samsung) understand the present state of things online. Her research and comment on technology, media culture and behaviour has received coverage in the Guardian, WIRED, VICE and advertising press.
