Tag: geography
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‘Digital Labour’ – our new publication
4 July 2017
Author:New forms of digital work have emerged which, in theory, can be done from anywhere. Does this mean that geography no longer matters to digital work? Not exactly. My ...
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New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa
15 March 2017
Author:We have a new publication out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., Straumann, R. K., De Sabbata, S., & Zook, M. (2017). Engagement in the knowledge economy: Regional patterns of content ...
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Digital gig work and outsourcing in Africa- Update on Geonet
27 February 2017
Author:This is a short post about the research that I lead into digital work and the digital economy in Sub-Saharan Africa. The work that I do (in tandem with my ...
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Philip Leverhulme Award: Internet Geographies
25 October 2016
Author:I am extremely happy to report the news that I have been awarded one of the 2016 Philip Leverhulme prizes! I hope to use the resources offered by the ...
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Pokémon Go and the Need to Critically Consider Augmented Realities
13 July 2016
Author:Pokémon Go is currently taking the world by storm. The game uses smartphones to overlay the material world with digital elements, encouraging users to travel around to different places ...
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Spatial discourses around Internet access in the developing world (new paper)
1 April 2016
Author:The ways in which we envision and talk about the internet matter. This is especially the case in the context of plans and projects to use the internet for ...
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Geographies of Knowledge and Information in Europe: Mapping the Data-Driven Contours of the Digital Single Market
27 January 2016
Author:The Digital Agenda presented by the European Commission proposes to realize the potential afforded by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in order to encourage innovation, economic growth, and progress1. ...
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Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”
10 November 2015
Author: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 ...
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New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information
29 September 2015
Author: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 ...
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New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia
7 September 2015
Author: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 ...
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“Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps
17 August 2015
Author: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. ...
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Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps
17 August 2015
Author: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) ...
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New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information
14 August 2015
Author: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 ...
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互联网地理:数据阴影和数字分工
7 August 2015
Author: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 ...
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Growing Digital Divides? Measuring Regional Changes in Internet Penetration
1 August 2015
Author:Ralph Straumann
Internet penetration between 2009 and 2013 per world region (click for larger version) Our previous mappings showed that access to the internet is highly uneven, leaving large swaths of the ...
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The problem with “cyberspace”
16 April 2015
Author:Source: Robert Thompson, The Guardian, Online section, 29 March 2001, page 4. In Dodge (2008: 106) Why should we be careful when we use the term “cyberspace”? That is the ...
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New paper: “Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information”
12 February 2015
Author:Some colleagues (Shilad Sen, Heather Ford, Dave Musicant, Oliver Keyes, Brent Hecht) and I have put together a paper for CHI on Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information. ...
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New publication: “Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content.”
6 November 2014
Author:A special issue of the journal innovations has just been published. The issue focused on the topic of ‘digital inclusion’ and features a short piece that I wrote. Graham, M. 2014 ...
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Ashby Prize awarded to our paper “Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies”
6 November 2014
Author:Image taken from: Graham, M and M. Zook. 2013. Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies: Exploring the Geo-linguistic Contours of the Web. Environment and Planning A 45(1) 77-99. I am ...
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Wikipedia and breaking news: The promise of a global media platform and the threat of the filter bubble
11 August 2014
Author:Heather Ford
I gave this talk at Wikimania in London yesterday. In the first years of Wikipedia’s existence, many of us said that, as an example of citizen journalism and journalism ...
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