Oxford Internet Institute

17 October 2017

Authors: Nicolas Friederici

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, ... Read More CfP for sessions at GCEG: Digital Economies, Digital Connectivity, Digital Margins

13 September 2017

Authors: Martin Dittus

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, ... Read More Introducing Martin Dittus, Data Scientist and Darknet Researcher

12 September 2017

Authors: Martin Dittus

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 ... Read More Exploring the Darknet in Five Easy Questions

12 July 2017

Authors: 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 ... Read More World regions’ access to the internet

25 June 2017

Authors: 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 ... Read More Who can access the internet?

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

4 May 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

  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 ... Read More Digital Hegemonies: The Localness of Search Engine Results

16 March 2017

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Mapping The Global Knowledge Economy

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

14 December 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Are mobile phones transforming Africa?

20 October 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development

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

17 May 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More New publication – Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research

30 March 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information

19 January 2016

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (new publication)

22 December 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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) ... Read More New publication: Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection’

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”

28 October 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More “E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture

8 October 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

I recently had the opportunity to give a plenary talk at the Global Conference on Economic Geography. The talk was part of a broader session on digital economies that Matthew ... Read More Digital Economies: Video of Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography