Oxford Internet Institute

16 April 2018

Authors: Martin Dittus

Martin Dittus, Joss Wright, and Mark Graham have published a new paper and dataset on the economic geography of darknet marketplaces. Does recent growth of darknet markets signify a slow ... Read More Darknet markets: global platforms used for local retail trade

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

8 March 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

A network that I am part of – the The Future of Work in Developing Countries initiative – has just put out a new publication titled ‘The Future of ... Read More The Future of Work in the Global South

8 March 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

A network that I am part of – the The Future of Work in Developing Countries initiative – has just put out a new publication titled ‘The Future of ... Read More The Future of Work in the Global South

3 March 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a new paper out. The paper focuses on attempts by ‘airline hackers’ to subvert the code/spaces of international travel. Download a full version of the paper at ... Read More Hacking code/space: Confounding the code of global capitalism

16 February 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

This month, I started work on a new project together with my new colleague Jamie Woodcock: The Fairwork Foundation. With generous funding from the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and ... Read More Towards a Fairer Platform Economy: Introducing the Fairwork Foundation

16 February 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

This month, I started work on a new project together with my new colleague Jamie Woodcock: The Fairwork Foundation. With generous funding from GIZ, we will get to spend ... Read More Towards a Fairer Platform Economy: Introducing the Fairwork Foundation

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it because this will be the first ... Read More The rise of the planetary labour market

30 January 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it because this will be the first ... Read More The rise of the planetary labour market

10 January 2018

Authors: Vili Lehdonvirta

Gig economy platforms seem to provide extreme temporal flexibility to workers, giving them full control over how to spend each hour and minute of the day. What constraints do ... Read More Flexibility in the gig economy: How workers manage time on online piecework platforms

22 December 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

When I give talks about issues that arise in the context of a global market for digital work, one of the most important things that comes up is the ... Read More Labour oversupply in the platform economy

18 December 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

I’m happy to report on a new co-authored paper that I have out. The piece asks what difference changing connectivity has made for East African firms. The piece emerges from ... Read More Digital Control in Value Chains: Challenges of Connectivity for East African Firms

9 November 2017

Authors: Martin Dittus

You may have seen the news earlier this year that two large darknet marketplaces, Alphabay and Hansa, have been taken down by international law enforcement. Particularly interesting about these ... Read More A distributed resilience among darknet markets?

17 October 2017

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

We will attend next year’s Global Conference of Economic Geography (GCEG) in full strength, running two hopefully lively sessions. Both run under the larger theme “Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, ... Read More CfP for sessions at GCEG: Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins

17 October 2017

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

The Geonet team will attend next year’s Global Conference of Economic Geography (GCEG) in full strength, running two hopefully lively sessions. Both run under the larger theme “Digital Economies, ... Read More CfP sessions at GCEG: Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins