Tag: Mapping
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Platform Real Estate
7 November 2019
Author:Like the legal profession, it has often been said that the world of real estate is characterised by ‘oily connections‘ and personal networks in a manner that leaves it ...
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CfP for sessions at GCEG: Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins
17 October 2017
Author:We will attend next year’s Global Conference of Economic Geography (GCEG) in full strength, running two hopefully lively sessions. Both run under the larger theme “Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, ...
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Introducing Martin Dittus, Data Scientist and Darknet Researcher
13 September 2017
Authors:We’re sitting upstairs, hunched over a computer, and Martin is showing me the darknet. I guess I have as good an idea as most people what the darknet is, ...
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Exploring the Darknet in Five Easy Questions
12 September 2017
Authors:Darknet marketplaces are typically set up to engage in the trading of illicit products and services, and are considered criminal in most jurisdictions. Image: Dennis Yip (Flickr). Many people ...
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World regions’ access to the internet
12 July 2017
Author:Ralph Straumann
The previous post in this mini-series, Who can access the internet?, looked at internet penetration in country context. In this post, we compare world regions and their access to ...
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Who can access the internet?
25 June 2017
Author:Ralph Straumann
This map shows internet penetration, i.e. the percentage of the population of countries that has accessed the internet within a 12 month period, from any device (click for full ...
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Want to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute? I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!
5 May 2017
Author: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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Digital Hegemonies: The Localness of Search Engine Results
4 May 2017
Author:I have a new paper out in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers with Andrea Ballatore and Shilad Sen. In it, we ask (and empirically answer) questions about ...
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Mapping The Global Knowledge Economy
16 March 2017
Author:The geography of published and codified knowledge has always had stark core-periphery patterns. Just look at the below map of where academic articles are published from. Academic articles per ...
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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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Are mobile phones transforming Africa?
14 December 2016
Author:The latest version of the Economist contains a boldly-titled piece: ‘Mobile phones are transforming Africa‘. The general sense in the piece is that, where connectivity exists, mobile phones and ...
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The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development
20 October 2016
Author:My colleagues Nicolas Friederici, Sanna Ojanperä, and I have recently finished a paper in which we analyse ‘Grand Visions’ of how Internet connectivity affects development in Africa. In the paper, we ...
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The geography of Wikipedia edits
28 September 2016
Author: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 ...
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New publication – Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research
17 May 2016
Author:This chapter outlines how one might utilize the massive amounts of web-based, geographically-referenced digital social data for geographical research. Because much of these data are user-generated and produced through ...
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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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Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information
30 March 2016
Author:I was asked by my colleague and friend Oliver Belcher to act as a discussant in a session that he put together at the 2016 meeting of the Association ...
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Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (new publication)
19 January 2016
Author:A new publication of ours in now out in The African Technopolitan. Graham, M., and Foster, C. 2016. Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, The African Technopolitan. 5 78-85. The ...
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New publication: Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection’
22 December 2015
Author:Ralph Straumann and I have a new short publication out: Straumann, R. K., Graham, M. 2016. Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection.’ Regional Studies, Regional Science. 3(1) ...
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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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“E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture
28 October 2015
Author:I’m delighted to be giving a Kapuściński Development Lecture on Nov 9. The talk will be titled ‘E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development’ You can ...
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