Oxford Internet Institute

12 June 2017

Authors: webteam

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 ... Read More Could Voting Advice Applications force politicians to keep their manifesto promises?

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 Work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute: I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!

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!

1 December 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More The move from a human-readable to a machine-readable web

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”

5 November 2015

Authors: 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 ... Read More Semantic Cities

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

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

7 August 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More 互联网地理：数据阴影和数字分工

10 June 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

  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 ... Read More new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir

29 May 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More “The digital language divide” – our research featured in The Guardian

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’

12 February 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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. ... Read More New paper: “Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information”

11 February 2015

Authors: Mark Graham

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 ... Read More Interview on the Guardian’s Tech Weekly about the Power of Digital Maps

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.”