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  • Tag: digital divide

    • AI trust and AI fears: A media debate that could divide society

      9 January 2018

      Author:

      Vyacheslav Polonski

      We are at a tipping point of a new digital divide. While some embrace AI, many people will always prefer human experts even when they’re wrong. Unless you live under ...
      Read More AI trust and AI fears: A media debate that could divide society

    • The Tyranny of Digital Inclusion

      31 December 2017

      Author:

      Marco Haenssgen

      In a previous blog post, I argued that mobile phone use can have negative consequences for people’s behaviour. If we assume for the sake of the argument that people ...
      Read More The Tyranny of Digital Inclusion

    • Did you consider Twitter’s (lack of) representativeness before doing that predictive study?

      10 April 2017

      Author:

      Grant Blank

      Twitter data have many qualities that appeal to researchers, but are probably not suitable for research where representativeness is important. Image: Bernard Goldbach (Flickr). Twitter data have many qualities ...
      Read More Did you consider Twitter’s (lack of) representativeness before doing that predictive study?

    • New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

      15 March 2017

      Author:

      Sanna Ojanpera

      We have a new publication out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., Straumann, R. K., De Sabbata, S., & Zook, M. (2017). Engagement in the knowledge economy: Regional patterns of content ...
      Read More New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Digital Divides of Internet Access in the United Kingdom

      1 March 2017

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      If you’ve ever wondered what local geographies of internet access look like in the UK, I have a new paper out with Grant Blank and Claudio Calvino that can shed ...
      Read More Digital Divides of Internet Access in the United Kingdom

    • Estimating the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain: London and the South East Show Highest Internet Use — But Why?

      1 March 2017

      Author:

      David Sutcliffe

      Small area estimation techniques allow us to estimate Internet use in small geographies in Britain: the first attempt to estimate Internet use at any small-scale level. Read the full ...
      Read More Estimating the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain: London and the South East Show Highest Internet Use — But Why?

    • Philip Leverhulme Award: Internet Geographies

      25 October 2016

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      I am extremely happy to report the news that I have been awarded one of the 2016 Philip Leverhulme prizes! I hope to use the resources offered by the ...
      Read More Philip Leverhulme Award: Internet Geographies

    • Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”

      10 November 2015

      Author:

      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”

    • New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information

      29 September 2015

      Author:

      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

    • Here’s why visions of ubiquitous connectivity aren’t going to be realised any time soon

      28 September 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      The last few months have seen a wealth of stories about visions to connect the world. Facebook, Google, large international organisations, states, and even Bono, dream of a world ...
      Read More Here’s why visions of ubiquitous connectivity aren’t going to be realised any time soon

    • New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

      7 September 2015

      Author:

      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

    • “Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps

      17 August 2015

      Author:

      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

    • Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps

      17 August 2015

      Author:

      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

    • New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

      14 August 2015

      Author:

      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

    • Growing Digital Divides? Measuring Regional Changes in Internet Penetration

      1 August 2015

      Author:

      Ralph Straumann

      Internet penetration between 2009 and 2013 per world region (click for larger version) Our previous mappings showed that access to the internet is highly uneven, leaving large swaths of the ...
      Read More Growing Digital Divides? Measuring Regional Changes in Internet Penetration

    • The Archipelago of Disconnection

      22 July 2015

      Author:

      Ralph Straumann

      The archipelago of disconnection (click for larger version) The two previous blog posts in this small series discussed Internet population and growing Internet access worldwide. In this post we ...
      Read More The Archipelago of Disconnection

    • Changing Internet Access

      14 July 2015

      Author:

      Ralph Straumann

      The Importance of Being Connected The Internet is ever more important to contemporary economic, social, and political activity. Thus, it is important to map who and where is (and ...
      Read More Changing Internet Access

    • The World Online

      8 July 2015

      Author:

      Ralph Straumann

      Internet Population cartogram (click for larger version) Description This map shows the total number of Internet users in a country (size of the country) as well as the percentage ...
      Read More The World Online

    • new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir

      10 June 2015

      Author:

      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

    • “The digital language divide” – our research featured in The Guardian

      29 May 2015

      Author:

      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

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