Tag: Representation
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Could Voting Advice Applications force politicians to keep their manifesto promises?
12 June 2017
Author:Andreas Ladner
To what extent do VAAs alter the way voters perceive the meaning of elections, and encourage them to hold politicians to account for election promises? Image: ep_jhu (Flickr CC ...
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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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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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The move from a human-readable to a machine-readable web
1 December 2015
Author:Slate just published a piece of mine about the move from a human-readable web to a more machine readable web. Here’s a short extract from it: Linked data organized ...
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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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Semantic Cities
5 November 2015
Author: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 ...
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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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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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互联网地理:数据阴影和数字分工
7 August 2015
Author:I recently had the opportunity to give a talk to a visiting Chinese delegation to Oxford. The hosts kindly translated my entire slide deck into Chinese. I’ve therefore uploaded ...
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new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir
10 June 2015
Author: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 ...
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“The digital language divide” – our research featured in The Guardian
29 May 2015
Author: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 ...
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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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New paper: “Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information”
12 February 2015
Author:Some colleagues (Shilad Sen, Heather Ford, Dave Musicant, Oliver Keyes, Brent Hecht) and I have put together a paper for CHI on Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information. ...
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Interview on the Guardian’s Tech Weekly about the Power of Digital Maps
11 February 2015
Author:This week’s Guardian Tech Weekly podcast covers the topic of Google Maps’ 10 year anniversary. I was interviewed on the programme and asked to speak about why internet geographies ...
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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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