Joe Shaw is an OII DPhil student. His research is concerned with the geography of information, property market technologies (PropTech) and critical urbanism.
Email: joe.shaw@oii.ox.ac.uk
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Joe’s DPhil research is examining disruption and innovation within the ‘PropTech’ industry. In particular, he is interested in the market effects of platforms that promise heightened accuracy and efficiency in the property valuation process. His research seeks to explain how such technologies are transforming property market practices, and how this is affecting different processes and spaces of urbanisation.
Joe studied at the University of Manchester and spent five years working in architectural practice and construction before pursuing a MSc in urban geography at the London School of Economics. Here he conducted ethnographic research surrounding the volunteer recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. More recently, he worked as a Senior Analyst for Human Digital, a digital research agency owned by M&C Saatchi.
Research interests
Digital urbanism, information geographies, urbanisation, real estate, finance and ‘financialisation’, marketing, political economy, risk/disaster, gentrification, regeneration, PropTech, FinTech, Smart Cities, IoT/IoE, the geoweb, user-generated content, post-politics, cybernetics, Henri Lefebvre, Jean Baudrillard, ethnography, digital mapping, digital methods
Positions held at the OII
- Research Assistant, January 2015 – December 2015
- DPhil student, October 2014 –
Supervisors
- Professor Mark Graham (OII)
- Professor Danny Dorling (School of Geography)
Latest blog posts
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The Right to the City: free e-book from Verso
Date Published: 13 November 2017
Authors: Joe Shaw
We’re pleased to say that Mark Graham and I have had our recent paper on digital information and Henri Lefebvre’s right to the city ... Read More The Right to the City: free e-book from Verso
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AAG Sessions: An Informational Right to the City?
Date Published: 17 November 2015
Authors: Joe Shaw
I am delighted to announce that our call for papers surrounding information and the right to the city has been extremely successful. Mark Graham ... Read More AAG Sessions: An Informational Right to the City?
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CfP at AAG 2016: An Informational Right to the City? Rethinking the Production, Consumption, and Governance of Digital Geographic Information
Date Published: 3 September 2015
Authors: Joe Shaw
After presenting our paper on the same theme at ICCG 2015 in Palestine, myself and Mark Graham are planning a session for the Association ... Read More CfP at AAG 2016: An Informational Right to the City? Rethinking the Production, Consumption, and Governance of Digital Geographic Information
Current projects
Past projects
Books
- (2017) Il nostro diritto digitale alla città. openpolis.
- (2017) Our Digital Rights to the City. Oxford: Meatspace Press.
- (2017) Towards a Fairer Gig Economy. Meatspace Press.
Chapters
- (2018) "Ein informationelles Recht auf Stadt? Code, Content, Kontrolle und die Urbanisierung von Information" In: Smart City - Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten Bauriedl, S. and Strüver, A. (eds.). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 177-204.
- (2017) "An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content, Control, and the Urbanization of Information" In: The Right to the City: A Verso Report. London: Verso.
Journal articles
- (2018) "Platform Real Estate: theory and practice of new urban real estate markets", Urban Geography.
- (2017) "An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content, Control, and the Urbanization of Information", Antipode. 49 (4) 907-927.
Internet publications
- (2017) Book Review: Networks of New York: An Internet Infrastructure Field Guide by Ingrid Burrington. LSE Review of Books.
Presentations
- (2017) Place-faking: fermenting resistance through digital productions of space. RGS-IBG London.
- (2017) Our Digital Rights to the City. Museum of Architecture, London, UK..
- (2017) Data-Driven Gentrification: small data and the dissolving city. University of York, UK..
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The Right to the City: free e-book from Verso
13 November 2017
Author: Joe Shaw
We’re pleased to say that Mark Graham and I have had our recent paper on digital information and Henri Lefebvre’s right to the city ... Read More The Right to the City: free e-book from Verso
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AAG Sessions: An Informational Right to the City?
17 November 2015
Author: Joe Shaw
I am delighted to announce that our call for papers surrounding information and the right to the city has been extremely successful. Mark Graham ... Read More AAG Sessions: An Informational Right to the City?
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CfP at AAG 2016: An Informational Right to the City? Rethinking the Production, Consumption, and Governance of Digital Geographic Information
3 September 2015
Author: Joe Shaw
After presenting our paper on the same theme at ICCG 2015 in Palestine, myself and Mark Graham are planning a session for the Association ... Read More CfP at AAG 2016: An Informational Right to the City? Rethinking the Production, Consumption, and Governance of Digital Geographic Information
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Code, Content, and Control: An Informational Right to the City?
25 January 2015
Author: Joe Shaw
I am pleased to announce that myself and Mark Graham have had an abstract accepted to the 7th International Conference for Critical Geography in ... Read More Code, Content, and Control: An Informational Right to the City?