Better and locally sensitive use of data could cut traffic jams

6 November 2019

Authors: Mark Malbas

Ever been stuck in queuing traffic which seems to have no explanation? Have you ever encountered a roundabout which creates more congestion than can be relieved? No surprise there: ...
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Fairwork Foundation’s First Annual Report Released!

17 October 2019

Authors: Mark Graham

The Fairwork Foundation – an organisation supported by the OII – is delighted to announce the release of our first major report, The Five Pillars of Fairwork. This report ...
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Rethinking the Geoweb and Big Data: Future Research Directions

4 April 2018

Authors: Mark Graham

This short chapter is a reflection on future directions that research on the geoweb and big data could take. It is derived from a reflection that the editors of ...
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Help us shape the Fairwork Foundation: request for feedback

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 ...
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Hacking code/space: Confounding the code of global capitalism

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 ...
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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 ...
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Labour oversupply in the platform economy

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 ...
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The Right to the City: New Ebook from Verso

10 November 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

‘Who is the city for?’ That is the question tackled in a new (free) publication by Verso Books. Joe Shaw and I have a chapter in there. The blurb ...
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I co-wrote a song about Internet Geography: ‘ Use the Digital to Make the World you Want to See’

19 October 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

I recently co-wrote a song about my research (and my team’s research) with the talented ‘science troubadour’, Jonny Berliner. The song, is essentially about why thinking about the geography ...
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There is no such thing as ‘offline’ or ‘online’

19 October 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

This is a topic that both I have other have written about for a while, but wanted to write a quick update with links to two relevant papers for ...
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The shape of work to come

19 October 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

Nature just published a published a long article about the ‘three ways that the digital revolution is reshaping workforces around the world.’ Amir Anwar and I were interviewed for ...
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New paper – Hacking Code/Space: Confounding the Code of Global Capitalism

28 September 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

I have a new paper out: Zook, M. and Graham, M. 2018. Hacking Code/Space: Confounding the Code of Global Capitalism. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. (in press). This paper, ...
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Mapping internet users

10 July 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

We have a new visualisation posted over on the Geonet blog depicting the geography of internet access. Head over there for the full post and some interesting summary stats.

Want to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute? I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!

5 May 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

I am hiring a Digital Geographer to work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute for two years on a full-time contract (we’ll also consider part-time options for the ...
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Digitally Augmented Geographies – New Publication

2 March 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

I have another new publication out this week. Thanks to the editors (Rob Kitchin, Tracey Lauriault, and Matt Wilson) for all of their efforts in putting this book together! ...
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Digital Divides in the United Kingdom

1 March 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

If you’ve ever wondered what local geographies of internet access look like in the UK, I have a new paper out with Grant Blank and Claudio Calvino that can ...
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An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content, Control, and the Urbanization of Information – New Paper

10 February 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

After much work, many discussions, a lot of writing and rewriting, and many many presentations around the world, Joe Shaw and I have our ‘Informational Right to the City’ ...
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An ‘Informational Right to the City’? – Piece in New Internationalist

9 February 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

Together with Joe Shaw, I have written a short article for New Internationalist titled: An ‘Informational Right to the City’? As our cities become increasingly digital, and as corporate giants ...
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New paper: Our Digital Rights to the City

8 February 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

The pamphlet ‘Our Digital Rights to the City’ is now out on Meatspace Press. We are pleased to offer it for free download (epub, mobi, pdf), as a low-cost ...
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The Geography of Twitter

3 February 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

A few months ago, Antonello Romano and I published some maps of Twitter. Those maps showed which parts of the world produced more content than others. However, what they failed ...
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