Oxford Internet Institute

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

15 February 2017

Authors: Oxford Internet Institute

The Internet has changed people’s ways of communication, as well as the formation process of public opinion. This network allows a worldwide flow of ideas in a transversal direction ... Read More The international community under construction

28 September 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

Wikipedia has a geography. This is something that my colleagues and I have explored previously in a variety of scholarship. For a new book on ‘Open Development’, my colleague Stefano ... Read More The geography of Wikipedia edits

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

6 June 2016

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

In this year’s Development Studies Association Conference, we will present a paper titled ‘Measuring the Hidden Contours of the Global Knowledge Economy with a Digital Index’. In this paper ... Read More Presenting the Digital Knowledge Economy Index at the Upcoming Development Studies Association Conference

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

17 November 2015

Authors: Joe Shaw

I am delighted to announce that our call for papers surrounding information and the right to the city has been extremely successful. Mark Graham and myself will be running ... Read More AAG Sessions: An Informational Right to the City?

5 November 2015

Authors: Heather Ford

Google results from a search for ‘Jerusalem’, 5 Nov. 2011 If you Google the city ‘Jerusalem’ today, you will most likely see something like the screenshot above. In addition ... Read More Semantic Cities

30 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The Datasthesia team recently turned one of our digital maps into a material printed object. They also kindly shared their files so that we could replicate the process with ... Read More 3D printed internet geographies

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

22 September 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

Our team recently had the opportunity of working with some submission data from SAGE journals. Amongst other things, the data tell us where authors of articles come from, and primary ... Read More The geography of academic knowledge

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

1 July 2015

Authors: Sanna Ojanpera

Description This graph illustrates the number of journal articles produced around the world. Data The data used in this graph are from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, which “provides ... Read More The Geographies of Science

10 June 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

  A chapter that I co-authored with Ilhem Allagui and Bernie Hogan has just been published in the book ‘Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir.’ You can ... Read More new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir

29 May 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The Guardian has just published a long piece about The Digital Language Divide. It features a lot of our work into internet and information geographies. In fact, I’m not ... Read More “The digital language divide” – our research featured in The Guardian

11 May 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

The Open University has just posted a webcast presentation of our paper due to be delivered at ICCG 2015 this July. Titled “Code, Content, and Control: Global Geographies of ... Read More New Video – ‘Code, Content, and Control: Global Geographies of Digital Participation and Representation’

10 April 2015

Authors: Stefano De Sabbata

Arzu, Kathryn, Scott, Ralph, and I wrote a short extended abstract for the workshop Wikipedia, a Social Pedia: Research Challenges and Opportunities  at ICWSM 2015, presenting the idea of using ... Read More Collaborative Visualizations for Wikipedia Critique and Activism (new publication)