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  • Tag: digital divisions of labour

    • Mapping the Availability of Online Labour

      20 October 2016

      Author:

      Sanna Ojanpera

      Digitalization and the increasing connectivity across the globe have capacitated the emergence of an online labour market. A number of platforms now facilitate transactions between employers and employees, often based in ...
      Read More Mapping the Availability of Online Labour

    • Organising in the “digital wild west”: Can strategic bottlenecks help prevent a race to the bottom for online workers?

      11 May 2016

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      For decades, large firms have been outsourcing and offshoring jobs. Work flowed from developed economies to developing ones, where wages were lower and regulations were of a lighter touch. ...
      Read More Organising in the “digital wild west”: Can strategic bottlenecks help prevent a race to the bottom for online workers?

    • Digital Transformations of Work

      28 January 2016

      Author:

      Alex Wood

      The conference will explore issues such as the degree to which information technology is transforming capitalism and opening up new means of exploitation, whether the traditional regulation of working ...
      Read More Digital Transformations of Work

    • 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”

    • “E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture

      28 October 2015

      Author:

      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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 互联网地理:数据阴影和数字分工

      7 August 2015

      Author:

      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

    • 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

    • Uneven Geographies of Digital Wages

      9 June 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      Dollar Inflow and Median Wage by Country Our previous post contained a few maps that shed light on the geographies of online work. But what we didn’t do there ...
      Read More Uneven Geographies of Digital Wages

    • “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

    • The Work We Want

      26 May 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      The ‘Work We Want’ project has just put together a series of short videos about digital labour: encouraging us to think about not just likely futures, but also the futures ...
      Read More The Work We Want

    • New Video – ‘Code, Content, and Control: Global Geographies of Digital Participation and Representation’

      11 May 2015

      Author:

      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’

    • Mapping the geographies of digital work

      13 April 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      With the rise of online work platforms like Odesk, Elance, and Freelancer, a lot of work can, in theory, be done from anywhere on the planet. This has led ...
      Read More Mapping the geographies of digital work

    • Is oDesk a global marketplace? Visualizing the geographies of digital work

      13 April 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      With the rise of online work platforms like Odesk, Elance, and Freelancer, a lot of work can, in theory, be done from anywhere on the planet. This has led ...
      Read More Is oDesk a global marketplace? Visualizing the geographies of digital work

    • New publication – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers

      31 March 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      Spatial distribution of placenames in the GeoNames gazetteer Spatial distibution of placenames in GeoNames included in the dataset of populated places with more than a thousand inhabitants, compared to ...
      Read More New publication – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers

    • New paper – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers

      31 March 2015

      Author:

      Mark Graham

      Spatial distribution of placenames in the GeoNames gazetteer Spatial distibution of placenames in GeoNames included in the dataset of populated places with more than a thousand inhabitants, compared to ...
      Read More New paper – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers

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