Tag: data shadows

10 November 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

I recently had the opportunity to give a Kapuścinski public lecture titled “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era.” You can watch the whole lecture at the link ...
Read More Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”

28 October 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

I’m delighted to be giving a Kapuściński Development Lecture on Nov 9. The talk will be titled ‘E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development’ You can ...
Read More “E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture

29 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The latest issue of New Geographies is now out, and contains an exciting collection of papers: My contribution to the issue is titled ‘Information Geographies and Geographies of Information.’ It is ...
Read More New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information

7 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

Network of Wikipedia edits between world regions, normalised for each target region. The edges are coloured according to the source region. Percentages denote self-edits (not depicted). I am very ...
Read More New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

17 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

We very recently published a paper that brings together a lot of the internet mapping work that we’ve been doing: Graham, M., S. De Sabbata, and M. A. Zook. ...
Read More “Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps

17 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

We very recently published a paper that brings together a lot of the internet mapping work that we’ve been doing: Graham, M., S. De Sabbata, and M. A. Zook. (2015) ...
Read More Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps

14 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

Our research group spends a lot of time mapping the internet and the digital information that flows within it. So we decided to attempt to bring together a lot ...
Read More New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

7 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

I recently had the opportunity to give a talk to a visiting Chinese delegation to Oxford. The hosts kindly translated my entire slide deck into Chinese. I’ve therefore uploaded ...
Read More 互联网地理：数据阴影和数字分工

1 July 2015

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

Description This graph illustrates the number of journal articles produced around the world. Data The data used in this graph are from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, which “provides ...
Read More The Geographies of Science

10 June 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

  A chapter that I co-authored with Ilhem Allagui and Bernie Hogan has just been published in the book ‘Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir.’ You can ...
Read More new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir

29 May 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The Guardian has just published a long piece about The Digital Language Divide. It features a lot of our work into internet and information geographies. In fact, I’m not ...
Read More “The digital language divide” – our research featured in The Guardian

11 May 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The Open University has just posted a webcast presentation of our paper due to be delivered at ICCG 2015 this July. Titled “Code, Content, and Control: Global Geographies of ...
Read More New Video – ‘Code, Content, and Control: Global Geographies of Digital Participation and Representation’

21 January 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The previous post demonstrated not only that Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa are net-importers of content on Wikipedia (Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, receives 10.7 more ...
Read More Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus

15 January 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The previous posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed the varying types of local engagement that different regions have, the primary reason that Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, ...
Read More Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: geographic networks of edits

16 December 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

The previous two posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed both the different types of local engagement that different regions have, and the primary reason that Sub-Saharan ...
Read More Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content

12 December 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

An earlier post showed how different parts of the world have very different levels of engagement with local content in Wikipedia. The data presented there showed that a majority ...
Read More Explaining locally-contributed content in Wikipedia about Sub-Saharan Africa

4 December 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

On Sunday, I use an extended stopover in San Francisco airport to pop into the Wikimedia Headquarters and chat about uneven geographies of voice and representation on the platform. ...
Read More Visualising the locality of participation and voice on Wikipedia

21 November 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

Heather Ford and I recently had the opportunity to visit some of the Programmable City group in Maynooth, Ireland as part of their ‘Code and the City‘ workshop. Our ...
Read More Video – “Semantic cities: Coded geopolitics and rise of the semantic web”

19 November 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

  Scott Hale, Devin Gaffney, and I have a paper out in The Professional Geographer. Graham, M., Hale, S., and Gaffney, D. 2014. Where in the World Are You? Geolocation and Language ...
Read More New paper published: ‘Where in the World Are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter’