Oxford Internet Institute

7 April 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

I had the opportunity to contribute to this new BCC World Service programme ‘Will AI kill development?’. Listen here, or contact me for an mp3 if you’re unable to ... Read More Will AI kill development?

7 April 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

Amir Anwar and I have a new article out in First Monday. The piece think through what a planetary labour market entails, how it is relationally, spatially, and discursively ... Read More New article – The Global Gig Economy: Towards a Planetary Labour Market?

4 March 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a new article out with some colleagues: Wood, A., Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, A., and Hjorth, I. 2019. Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the ... Read More Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy

6 February 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

Amir Anwar and I have a new chapter out in The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy. The full piece is available to download at the ... Read More Two Models for a Fairer Sharing Economy

30 January 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

We are seeking to appoint a Researcher to work with us at the Fairwork Foundation. This position provides an exciting opportunity to work with our team to co-develop standards ... Read More We’re Hiring! Work with us as a Researcher

27 January 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a chapter out in a nice-looking new book that has put together by Ben Wagner, Matthias Kettemann, and Kilian Vieth. The chapter is an attempt to think ... Read More There are no rights ‘in’ cyberspace – new publication

3 August 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

Cross post from the Fairwork Foundation blog. We are about to launch a new phase of the Fairwork project in South Africa with our colleague at the University of Cape Town, ... Read More We’re Hiring! Postdoc to focus on ‘fair work’ on digital work platforms in South Africa

31 July 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

The Geonet team has a new publication out that summarises some of our their research to-date. You can download the full paper here, or get a free open-access version ... Read More New publication: Digital Connectivity and African Knowledge Economies

31 July 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

I’m currently working on a book chapter about our ‘digital labour and gig economy‘ research. The chapter attempts to contextualise plans and projects to expand digital labour schemes by governments, third-sector organisations, ... Read More Three visions for how information and communication technologies alter positionalities at global economic margins

6 April 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

Our Towards a Fairer Gig Economy Pamphlet is being translated into Italian in weekly instalments. Here’s the first one: https://www.openpolis.it/esercizi/verso-unaltra-gig-economy/ You can still get the original at the link ... Read More Ripensare la gig economy, per un lavoro più giusto

23 March 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

In an earlier post, I described a new initiative that we recently started: The Fairwork Foundation. The goal of the Foundation is to certify key standards in the platform ... Read More Help us shape the Fairwork Foundation: request for feedback

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff University, 28–31 August 2018   Session sponsor: the Digital Geographies Working Group ... Read More CFP – Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice