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Digitally Augmented Geographies – New Publication
2 March 2017
Author: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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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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Pokémon Go and the Need to Critically Consider Augmented Realities
13 July 2016
Author: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 ...
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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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New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information
29 September 2015
Author: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 ...
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New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia
7 September 2015
Author: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 ...
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“Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps
17 August 2015
Author: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. ...
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Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps
17 August 2015
Author: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) ...
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New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information
14 August 2015
Author: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 ...
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New Video – ‘Code, Content, and Control: Global Geographies of Digital Participation and Representation’
11 May 2015
Author: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 ...
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Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus
21 January 2015
Author:The previous post demonstrated not only that Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa are net-importers of content on Wikipedia (Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, receives 10.7 more ...
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Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: geographic networks of edits
15 January 2015
Author:The previous posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed the varying types of local engagement that different regions have, the primary reason that Sub-Saharan Africa, in particular, ...
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Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content
16 December 2014
Author:The previous two posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed both the different types of local engagement that different regions have, and the primary reason that Sub-Saharan ...
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Explaining locally-contributed content in Wikipedia about Sub-Saharan Africa
12 December 2014
Author:An earlier post showed how different parts of the world have very different levels of engagement with local content in Wikipedia. The data presented there showed that a majority ...
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Visualising the locality of participation and voice on Wikipedia
4 December 2014
Author:On Sunday, I use an extended stopover in San Francisco airport to pop into the Wikimedia Headquarters and chat about uneven geographies of voice and representation on the platform. ...
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Interview about the power of digital maps
10 November 2014
Author:I recently had the opportunity to participate in an interview about digital maps. The interview is in BBC Radio 4’s excellent ‘Digital Human’ programme on Maps. In it, I ...
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New publication: “Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content.”
6 November 2014
Author: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 ...
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Ashby Prize awarded to our paper “Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies”
6 November 2014
Author: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 ...
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Diary of an internet geography project #4
14 August 2014
Author:Heather Ford
Continuing with our series of blog posts exposing the workings behind a multidisciplinary big data project, we talk this week about the process of moving between small data and big data ...
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