Oxford Internet Institute

4 July 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More ‘Digital Labour’ – our new publication

15 March 2017

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

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 ... Read More New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa

27 February 2017

Authors: Mohammad Anwar

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 ... Read More Digital gig work and outsourcing in Africa- Update on Geonet

25 October 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Philip Leverhulme Award: Internet Geographies

13 July 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Pokémon Go and the Need to Critically Consider Augmented Realities

27 January 2016

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

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. ... Read More Geographies of Knowledge and Information in Europe: Mapping the Data-Driven Contours of the Digital Single Market

10 November 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”

29 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information

7 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

17 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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. ... Read More “Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps

17 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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) ... Read More Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps

14 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

7 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More 互联网地理：数据阴影和数字分工

1 August 2015

Authors: 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 ... Read More Growing Digital Divides? Measuring Regional Changes in Internet Penetration

16 April 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More The problem with “cyberspace”

12 February 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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. ... Read More New paper: “Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information”

6 November 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More New publication: “Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content.”

6 November 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Ashby Prize awarded to our paper “Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies”