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3 March 2013
Forbes
What's to be Done about Big Data?
In an interview with the authors of Big Data, Gil Press says that the book is an excellent introduction for a general audience to this hot topic of conversation and provides a launch pad for a much-needed conversation about Big Data.
28 February 2013
Straits Times
Sad if no ethics in social media
In a speech at an event during Malaysia's Social Media Week, PM Datuk Seri Naji Razak referred to Mark Graham's work on Twitter usage as evidence that Malaysia stands out as a forward looking country.
27 February 2013
The Malaysian Insider
Najib: Election 2013 first social media election
The Malaysian Prime Minister has predicted that the forthcoming election will be Malaysia's first social media election. He quoted research by Mark Graham which indicated that Malaysia and Brazil have very high levels of Twitter use.
22 February 2013
Weekendavisen
On the eve of the Oscar ceremony, Danish paper Weekendavisen interviews Taha Yasseri whose work on Wikipedia can predict the success of films up to a month pre-release.
20 February 2013
BBC Radio Oxford
James Cannon, BBC Radio Oxford
Dr Taha Yasseri talks to BBC Oxford about how conflicting viewpoints that appear online can be resolved on a collaborative platform like Wikipedia.
20 February 2013
University of Oxford
Mathematical model 'describes' how online conflicts are resolved
Researchers have produced a mathematical model to describe how conflicting opinions are resolved over articles that appear on Wikipedia, the collaboratively-edited encyclopaedia.
18 February 2013
DW Akademie
Tweets help visualise information density of African cities
'Cities have become both digital and digitized' says Mark Graham whose work on geocoded tweets in African cities is answering questions on his research for Deutsche Welle Akademie.
15 February 2013
Jeune Afrique
Réseaux sociaux: les capitales africaines de Twitter, quartier par quartier
Francophone African news site reports on Mark Graham’s datamaps of tweets from key African cities and features every one of the maps, noting comparisons between predominantly French speaking and English speaking cities.
14 February 2013
The Guardian Data Store
Who uses Twitter in Africa? Where are they based? The Guardian Data Store says that Mark Graham’s datamaps of tweets from key African cities provide a unique insight.
14 February 2013
Monocle
The Urbanist: A weekly look at the people and ideas shaping our urban lives. Maps.
Monocle's editor Andrew Tuck interviews Mark Graham about maps. Episode 70 (14 February)
12 February 2013
Oxford Internet Institute
The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied, and the future research agenda.
11 February 2013
Oxford Internet Institute
OII News: New Projects, Summer Doctoral Programme, Events, Webcasts
"We are delighted to announce that Google will be supporting a number of OII projects over the next three years, as well as an MSc scholarship. With four new faculty positions also in the process of being filled, this latest expansion will allow us ..."
6 February 2013
The Atlantic
How the Internet Reinforces Inequality in the Real World
In this in-depth article, Mark Graham discusses the different ways we can think about and study the digital information about real-world places in the geoweb.
25 January 2013
Wired
Big data and the death of the theorist
Mark Graham is skeptical about on the death of the scientific theory at the hands of big data analysis: "when talking about 'big data' and the humanities, there will always be things that are left unsaid, things that haven't been measured or codified".
25 January 2013
New Scientist
Uncharted territory: Where digital maps are leading us
The problem with many digital maps is that it is difficult to know how they have been curated - and who, what and where is left out. And the map-making choices made by the likes of Google or Microsoft are often unclear, says Mark Graham.
15 January 2013
The Guardian
Early career researchers making their own luck – with help from the Internet
Kathryn Eccles opens the Guardian series for early career academics with an article on how her career went from part-time history teaching to digital humanist after she worked on a research project at the OII.
12 January 2013
The Economist
An increasing range of child-tracking devices designed to protect children are being offered to parents. But Anne-Marie Oostveen points out that accidents are more likely than assault and these devices won’t stop a child falling in a river.
12 January 2013
Jarrow and Hebburn Gazette
Tweets decide SAFC v Toon fans’ debate
Regional newspaper, the Jarrow and Hebburn Gazette highlights the references to the football clubs of the North East in the Premier League Twitter map created by the OII team.
11 January 2013
University of Oxford
Chasing data shadows: Twitter map of football fans
A team from the OII has created an interactive Twitter map to find out where conversations about premier league football clubs originate. It shows that there are fewer Manchester United fans in London and the south-east than is popularly assumed.
11 January 2013
ITV
Most Man U fans do not come from the south, study shows
ITV reports the work of the OII team on the interactive Premier League Twitter map.
11 January 2013
India Blooms
Now a Twitter map of football fans
India based web-site reports the work of the OII team on the interactive Premier League Twitter map.
11 January 2013
Anchorfan
Oxford Internet Institute maps Premier League Twitter conversations in UK
Social Sport News site reports on the interactive map produced by Mark Graham and the OII team which maps twitter conversations about Premier League football clubs.
11 January 2013
The Guardian
Pupils are disadvantaged if they don't have internet access at home
Chris Davies argues that computers and internet access are so integral to the way teenagers study at home that those without are at a distinct disadvantage and need extra support. He is co-author with Rebecca Eynon of ‘Teenagers and Technology’.
11 January 2013
Daily Telegraph
Twitter map finally reveals exactly where Manchester United fans live
The Daily Telegraph highlights the ‘fascinating’ map plotting Twitter conversations about Premier League Football clubs created by a team at the OII.
11 January 2013
The Guardian
Which Premier League teams are the most popular in search area? A Twitter interactive map
The interactive map of geotagged Tweets mentioning Premier League teams or associated hashtags created by the team at the OII features on the Data Store Show and Tell page of the Guardian.
Last updated on: 23 May 2013
