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    • New Paper: Personal clashes and Status in Wikipedia Edit Wars

      4 November 2016

      Author:

      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. ...
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    • First year of HUMANE

      12 April 2016

      Author:

      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 ...
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    • A global division of microwork

      8 October 2014

      Author:

      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 ...
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    • Geographic Knowledge in Freebase

      21 September 2014

      Author:

      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 ...
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    • Geographies of Google Search

      5 September 2014

      Author:

      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 ...
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    • Technology and Fieldwork: Ethnographic quandaries

      2 December 2013

      Author:

      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

    • Christine Hine on virtual ethnography’s E3 Internet

      29 November 2013

      Author:

      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

    • Digital Visual Anthropology: Envisaging the field

      28 November 2013

      Author:

      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 ...
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    • Glorious Backfires in Digital Ethnography: Becoming an Urban Explorer

      12 November 2013

      Author:

      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 ...
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