Tag: place

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! ...
Read More Digitally Augmented Geographies – New Publication

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

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”

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

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

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’

21 January 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus

15 January 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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, ...
Read More Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: geographic networks of edits

16 December 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content

12 December 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Explaining locally-contributed content in Wikipedia about Sub-Saharan Africa

4 December 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

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. ...
Read More Visualising the locality of participation and voice on Wikipedia

10 November 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

  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 ...
Read More Interview about the power of digital maps

6 November 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More New publication: “Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content.”

6 November 2014

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ...
Read More Ashby Prize awarded to our paper “Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies”

14 August 2014

Authors: 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 ...
Read More Diary of an internet geography project #4