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Mark Graham 12 May 2012 13:34PMMapping Wikipedia edits from Europe
I'm still playing with our database of Wikipedia edits (which tells us how many contributions to the encyclopedia originate in each country) and made two more maps of Europe. The height of each country represents the number of edits originating in that place. The shading indicated the number of edits per Internet user (darker reds meaning [...]
- Mark Graham 8 May 2012 17:28PM
Hiring a part-time research assistant to do statistical, spatial, and social analysis
Bernie Hogan and I are hiring a part-time Research Assistant to carry out research into the geography and social structure of Wikipedia in the Middle East and North Africa through large-scale data analysis. The position will involve the analysis of the corpus of Wikipedia text, user-pages and history files and the use of statistical techniques [...]
- Mark Graham 4 May 2012 11:23AM
Augmented information and the reproduction of visibility
I spend a lot of time thinking about the geographies of information that augment our planet (e.g. see a paper on augmented realities and uneven geographies that I recently wrote with Matt Zook). And many people ask me why the layers of information about place really matter. Who cares if London is covered by a denser cloud of information than Lagos? [...]
Cristobal Cobo 4 May 2012 10:03AMChanging Higher Learning Forever?
The first time that I hear about the MOOCS (Massive Open Online Courses, video) I thought that it was a crazy idea (I didn’t liked at all). It sounded to me as using the Internet instead of television to broadcast educational contents without caring who, where and how to learn. But after exploring with more details the ideas of Siemens (in [...]
Rough Consensus 2 May 2012 16:34PMNetwork Effects–We Missed the Inframarginals
When discussing the internet, the economic concept that seems to have made the largest dispersion into popular discourse is the concept of ‘network effects’. “Facebook is unconquerable because of positive network externalities.” “Product X must reach the tipping point so that network effects can take over,” [...]
- Mark Graham 30 Apr 2012 14:00PM
Mapping #kony2012 on Twitter (part 2)
Following on from my last post about mapping #kony2012 on Twitter, I also wanted to offer up a map that shows the proportion of tweets from each country that made reference to the viral video or the LRA leader (or both). We've already seen that most tweets referencing Kony were published from North America, and Western Europe, but this map tells [...]
- Rough Consensus 30 Apr 2012 12:48PM
Losing a Grip on Your Facebook Account? You’re Not the Only One
Having a Facebook page is becoming more and more of a liability. Surely we’ve heard it all before, though. Journalists, authors, bloggers, and even occasionally incredulous Masters’ students love talking about the potential negative Facebook effects, from loss of self-esteem to increased anxiety or jealousy. But there’s a much more tangible one: [...]
Government on the Web 29 Apr 2012 16:45PMDraft Paper: Understanding the Mechanics of Online Collective Action Using 'Big Data'
Type: Paper Experiment?: No Collective Action Citizen-Government Interactions Big Data [...]
OxIS Blog 28 Apr 2012 14:38PMNon-users and Ex-users: Gender and Age
In this post we explore some basic demographic characteristics of non-users and ex-users of the Internet. The first graph shows that the proportions of non- and ex-users among men and women are almost identical. The proportion of non- and ex-users is only 3 percentage points bigger among female population. This difference is within the margin of [...]
Marcelo Thompson 28 Apr 2012 04:29AMRazoabilidade na Rede: além da neutralidade
Nota para auxiliar no debate sobre a neutralidade da rede no contexto do Marco Civil da Internet no Brasil (PL No. 2126 de 2011). Neste momento em que pensamos em adotar uma Constituição para a Internet no Brasil, não devemos nela inserir princípio incompatível com os valores e princípios que Constituições abraçam. Nenhuma Constituição, como regra [...]
- Mark Graham 26 Apr 2012 11:09AM
Mapping Wikipedia edits from South America
If you've ever wondered where edits to Wikipedia come from in South America, the map below might be useful to you. The answer is that almost half of all edits to Wikipedia from South America come from Brazil. These data are actually not that surprising considering that there are almost 80 million Internet users in the country (and Brazil is [...]
- Government on the Web 26 Apr 2012 16:49PM
Prof Helen Margetts serves on UK Digital Advisory Board
OII Director Helen Margetts is one of twelve expert members of the new Digital Advisory Board in the UK. Chaired by UK Digital Champion Martha Lane Fox, the board will support the UK Government to deliver a revolution in online services. [View the story "Digital Advisory Board appointed for Government" on Storify] [...]
Monica Bulger 25 Apr 2012 16:07PMEngageU: Challenges of assessment & public engagement
Funding bodies are increasingly requiring evidence of impact for higher education efforts in outreach and public engagement, yet measuring this impact is challenging. A review of current practice combined with interviews of public engagement experts in the UK underscored the degree to which outcomes of public engagement and outreach efforts are [...]
- Monica Bulger 25 Apr 2012 13:17PM
Child protection study underway
Vicki Nash and I were successful in our bid to the Fell Fund to examine how risk and harm are used in literature addressing children’s use of the Internet. Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova, a recent graduate of Loughborough University, joined us in December and has been making swift progress through the mountain of relevant literature. To date, we [...]
SECT Project 24 Apr 2012 12:03PMOn Friday 20th April, we held a workshop on EEBO-TCP and sustainability at the Lincoln EPA Centre at the University of Oxford. A group of 20 editors, academics, digital technology specialists, and JISC representatives discussed how EEBO-TCP is used in research and teaching, and how we should approach the challenge of making the corpus sustainable [...]
- Mark Graham 20 Apr 2012 09:30AM
Some work done by Monica Stephens, Scott Hale and myself just got picked up by the Brazilian magazine Exame. The spread offers an alternate visualisation to the data that we're collecting about the geographies of Wikipedia. It also includes penguins. I don't speak Portuguese, so am not sure what the penguins have to do with Wikipedia. [...]
- Mark Graham 23 Apr 2012 09:30AM
The geolinguistic contours of digital content in Spain
Following up on our post about augmented realities and uneven geographies, we wanted to post a few more maps that came out of the project. This first one compares content indexed (by Google Maps) in Spanish (Castilian) to content in Catalan. Throughout much of the Catalonian region in the Northeast coastal areas there is considerable more [...]
- Mark Graham 16 Apr 2012 15:15PM
Where do tweets come from? (part 2)
I realise that the graph in my last post about the geography of tweets is hard to read, so am uploading the chart below so that you can get a better sense of where content in Twitter comes from. It shows us that over half of the world's content comes from the US and Brasil alone! Again, all of the caveats of these data are listed in the [...]
- Mark Graham 13 Apr 2012 18:09PM
On March 29, I was invited by Michael Anderson to give a talk at DFID to extend some of the work that I presented at the London Cyberspace Conference last year. DFID have now uploaded my audio and slides and you can watch/listen to the talk below. The idea behind the talk is that while it is important to not forget the [...]
- OxIS Blog 13 Apr 2012 13:54PM
Civic by default - when opting in is not a choice
This is a guest post by OII Research Fellow Rebecca Eynon and Anne Geniets. They discuss the topical issue of the UK's digital inclusion strategy, discussed at last week's OII workshop on low and discontinued Internet use by young people in Britain. Published: 13 April 2012. On 23 March 2012, the Oxford Internet Institute saw stakeholders [...]
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