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• Mark Graham 23 May 2013 15:01PM

  New Media & Society Themed Section on 'Search'

  A themed section on 'search' that I put together with my colleagues Ralph Schroeder and Greg Taylor is now out in New Media and Society.  The section includes the following pieces: 0 0 2013-04-04T10:51:00Z 2013-05-23T05:34:00Z 1 16 94 OII 1 1 109 14.0 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB JA X-NONE [...]

• Laura Mann 20 May 2013 19:30PM

  Postcards from Rwanda

  Last week I was in Rwanda for our project’s outreach meetings: a chance to share our preliminary findings and ideas with our research participants. My Uncle Martin asked me to send him a postcard and trying to be a dutiful niece, I checked out the postcards on offer. A postcard is a country’s chance to share its scenery with the world. This is how [...]

• Joss Wright 16 May 2013 21:33PM

  Open Rights Group Report: “Digital Surveillance”

  The Open Rights Group have recently released “Digital Surveillance – Why the Snoopers’ Charter is the wrong approach: A call for targeted and accountable investigatory powers”. The report sets out various arguments as to why the proposed Communications Data Bill in the UK, which aims to massively extend the scope of surveillance [...]

• Mark Graham 14 May 2013 13:36PM

  We're hiring: Quantitative Internet Geographer/Sociologist

  We're hiring a full-time researcher to work with Grant Blank, Bernie Hogan and myself at the Oxford Internet Institute (on a one-year contract in the first instance). The successful candidate will be working on two projects: (1) Helping us to continue our work on the geographies of Wikipedia. i.e. modelling and mapping patterns in Wikipedia data [...]

• Policy and Internet Blog 14 May 2013 09:12AM

  Online Crowd-sourcing of Scientific Data Could Document the Worldwide Loss of Glaciers to Climate Change

  There are about 300,000 glaciers worldwide, representing 69% of the world’s fresh water, and a dependable water supply to more than a billion people. Glaciers also provide a key (and very visible) indicator for climate change. Klaus Thymann, a director at Project Pressure — the world’s first crowdsourced archive of glacier images [...]

• Anne-Marie Oostveen 12 May 2013 22:30PM

  Don’t miss MuseumNext

  If you are in Amsterdam this week, don’t miss MuseumNext at the Beurs van Berlage. MuseumNext is Europe’s big conference on innovation and technology in museums. The aim is to provide a clear insight into how technology and media are shaping museums and the world around them. This year MuseumNext focuses on ‘What’s Next’. My colleague [...]

• Cristobal Cobo 8 May 2013 11:32AM

  Future Internet Assembly: ‘from the lab into the real world’

  ‘From the lab into the real world’ [A User-Centered Approach] from Cristobal Cobo Romaní According to Wikipedia User-centered design is a ‘multi-stage problem solving process that not only requires designers to analyse and foresee how users are likely to use a product, but also to test the validity of their assumptions with regards to user [...]

• Policy and Internet Blog 7 May 2013 08:58AM

  Crowdsourcing Translation During Crisis Situations: Are ‘Real Voices’ Being Excluded from the Decisions and Policies it Supports?

  International NGOs and government actors have embraced crowdsourcing to manage the flood of information produced during crisis. However, when crowdsourced material crosses the language barrier into English, it often becomes inaccessible to the original contributors. Gwyneth Sutherlin is a doctoral student at the University of Bradford, where she [...]

• Han-Teng Liao 7 May 2013 03:19AM

  Basic geo-lingusitic analysis on Chinese search engine result pages (SERPs)

  This blog post provides some basic geo-linguistic analysis of the findings explained in the previous blog post. Geo-linguistic information can be extracted from the data to consider the geographic and linguistic factors of the web links . geo-IP First, based … Continue reading → [...]

• Elizabeth Dubois 6 May 2013 12:46PM

  Digital Oxford

  On May 4, 2013 I participated in a day long forum which kicks off the University of Oxford’s campaign to become digital – or at least to have some sort of vision for integrating digital technology into the workings of this very old institution. The meeting was attended by everyone from Oxford UP reps to museum curators to public relations [...]

• Han-Teng Liao 6 May 2013 12:08PM

  “Wikipedias” (or its copycat) dominate “Chinese” search engine result pages (SERPs)

  It has been reported that (and speculated why) the global leader of search engines Google has consistently favoured the global leader of user-generated encyclopedias Wikipedia by showing relevant pages frequently and prominently in the search engine result pages (thereafter SERPs) … Continue reading → [...]

• Han-Teng Liao 6 May 2013 08:46AM

  Continental Internet hypothesis: the case of China’s Internet

  After discussing the historical hypothesis of maritime Internet, this blog post will discuss the emerging continental Internet and how it is distinctive from the maritime Internet, using China’s Internet as a case. “Domestic” terrestrial versus “international” submarine cables? Technologically and … Continue [...]

• Han-Teng Liao 30 Apr 2013 08:41AM

  Maritime Internet hypothesis: beyond the North Atlantic

  I further argue that the Maritime Internet hypothesis is of great importance to Chinese Internet research and Chinese studies because of the following reasons. .... [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="auto"] Han Chinese population in the world[/caption] Continue reading → [...]

• Han-Teng Liao 30 Apr 2013 05:27AM

  Gallery: the Shift to Asia (Submarine Cables)

  Submarine communications cables make the global Internet, thereby indicating the uses, investment, expectations, geographic diffusion and historical dependencies of its development. Based on the figures and arguments made in this article , the two animated images below show how the … Continue reading → [...]

• Mark Graham 29 Apr 2013 14:33PM

  Wikipedians without borders

  Our team recently held a workshop for Wikipedia editors in Amman in order to discussion barriers to participation and representation in Wikipedia (with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa). The event had participants from all over the region (from Morocco, Algeria, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, The Palestinian Territories, [...]

• Mark Graham 25 Apr 2013 21:26PM

  New article published - Thai Silk Dot Com: Authenticity, Altruism, Modernity and Markets in the Thai Silk Industry

  An article that I had accepted into Globalizations has made its way into print: Graham, M. 2013. Thai Silk Dot Com: Authenticity, Altruism, Modernity and Markets in the Thai Silk Industry. Globalizations. 10(2) 211-230. The abstract is below, and you can access a pre-publication version at this link. The production of silk occupies a [...]

• Anne-Marie Oostveen 24 Apr 2013 20:32PM

  New book chapter: User Involvement in Future Internet Projects

  We have a chapter in the FIA 2013 book to be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) next month [1]. In this chapter we address user involvement in the Future Internet community. We were interested to find out whether current FI projects support user-led innovation and in this way empower ordinary people, citizens and [...]

• Policy and Internet Blog 22 Apr 2013 14:32PM

  Time for Debate About the Societal Impact of the Internet of Things

  Despite the growing ubiquity and connectivity of the consumer devices and other objects that make up the “Internet of Things“, very little is understood about the likely social impacts of the technology. Jeremy Crump is chair of the BCS Internet of Things working group and a Director at Cisco Systems. In February 2013 he chaired a joint [...]

• William H. Dutton 20 Apr 2013 16:31PM

  Information Communication and Society

  Our journal, Information Communication and Society (iCS), has had a step-jump in its readership and role in the field over the last several years. The editor, Brian Loader, and I were recalling our first meeting in the late 1990s, when Brian first proposed the journal. We are in the midst of the 16th volume with subscriptions continuing to rise, [...]

• Elizabeth Dubois 19 Apr 2013 16:17PM

  The best and worst of social media: Liberal leadership candidates.

  Social media may feel pretty mundane for those of us who have more sets of log-in credentials than fingers and toes, but in the political game a lot of these tools are still very new. Social media favors the fun, the timely, the shareable, and the creative. Here is a re-cap of the best and worst attempts at social media use by Liberal leadership [...]

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