Oxford Internet Institute

4 November 2016

Authors: Milena Tsvetkova

Our study on disagreement in Wikipedia was just published in Scientific Reports (impact factor 5.2). In this study, we find that disagreement and conflict in Wikipedia follow specific patterns. ... Read More New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars

12 April 2016

Authors: Taha Yasseri

1st of April marks the anniversary of the start of our project!In this post we give a short recap of our activities in HUMANE during its first year. The ... Read More First year of HUMANE

8 October 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

The first image below shows that a large portion of the world’s microwork carried out through ODesk is carried out in Asia: particular in the Philippines, Bangladesh, India, and ... Read More A global division of microwork

21 September 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

Findings Geographic content in Freebase is largely clustered in certain regions of the world. The United States accounts for over 45% of the overall number of place names in ... Read More Geographic Knowledge in Freebase

5 September 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

Data The data were collected through the Google Custom Search API. We searched for each country name in English and up to 23 other languages, that is all languages ... Read More Geographies of Google Search

2 December 2013

Authors: Heather Ford

John McManus studies Turkish football fans in the diaspora at Oxford University’s Center on Migration, Policy and Society (Compas). Editor’s note: This event report is the final post in the ... Read More Technology and Fieldwork: Ethnographic quandaries

29 November 2013

Authors: Heather Ford

Christine Hine is an early pioneer of virtual ethnography and has been at the forefront of movements towards redefining ethnography for the digital age. She is currently a Reader ... Read More Christine Hine on virtual ethnography’s E3 Internet

28 November 2013

Authors: Heather Ford

Shireen Walton is a D.Phil student in Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford and member of the Oxford Digital Ethnography Group. Shireen studies online communities ... Read More Digital Visual Anthropology: Envisaging the field

12 November 2013

Authors: Heather Ford

For four years, Bradley Garrett (@Goblinmerchant) explored abandoned hospitals, railways, tunnels and rooftops as part of his PhD ethnography studying an elite group of urban explorers.  Brad has in ... Read More Glorious Backfires in Digital Ethnography: Becoming an Urban Explorer