
Mark Graham is an economic geographer. His research focuses on digital labour, the gig economy, and digital inequalities. He is the author, most recently, of The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction.
Professor Mark Graham
Professor of Internet Geography
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Profile
I am the Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, a Research Affiliate in the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment, a Research Associate at the Centre for Information Technology and National Development in Africa at the University of Cape Town, and a Visiting Researcher at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and Technische Universität Berlin. I lead a range of research projects spanning topics between digital labour, the gig economy, internet geographies, and ICTs and development; and am accepting PhD students with an interest in any of that work.
About My Research
I have led three large-scale multi-country studies (including a five-year ERC Starting Grant), which examine the production networks of digital work. This research analyses how workers in the world’s economic margins are enrolled into global value chains and a planetary labour market (for instance, looking at how Kenyan data entry workers or Filipino personal assistants are an integral part of some of the world’s most important digital production networks). It then seeks to examine how the networked and geographic positionalities of those workers impact on the working conditions that they experience.
Together with colleagues on three continents, I have started a participatory action research project called the Fairwork Foundation. This initiative, which I founded in 2018 and now run together with a group of labour lawyers and labour sociologists, has now grown to an international project team of 22 people. It has brought together key stakeholders around the world – including workers, trade unions, platforms, and policy makers – to set minimum fair work standards for the gig economy. Using a transparent methodology and a collectively-determined scoring system, we score gig economy work platforms and conduct extensive qualitative research on working conditions prior to releasing the scores. As of 2020, the project has successfully been piloted in Germany, India and South Africa, enjoining major platforms to make changes to their conditions (e.g. implementing minimum wages) in order to receive a higher score. The project will also be launching in the UK, Chile, Indonesia, and Ecuador later in 2020 (see https://fair.work/ for more information).
Previous research has focused on digital entrepreneurship and the ways that conditions in African cities shape practices of local entrepreneurs (as part of a large project about African ‘knowledge economies‘), and on how the internet can impact production networks (of tea, tourism, and outsourcing) in East Africa, and asked who wins and loses from those changes. I lead the ‘Digital Inequality Group‘ of researchers at Oxford.
Digital Geographies is my most long-standing research area. I ask how people and places are ever more defined by, and made visible through, not only their traditional physical locations and properties, but also their virtual attributes and digital shadows. If the places that we live in are increasingly digital, then there are important questions about who controls, and has access to, our digitally-augmented and digitally-mediated worlds. I have written extensively about this topic in both the academic and popular press and maintain a collection of maps of internet geographies.
I serve as an editor of the journal Environment and Planning A, and am an editorial board member of Information, Communication & Society, Geo: Geography and Environment, Television and New Media, Big Data & Society, Global Perspectives, Digital Geography and Society, and Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation.
Teaching
I teach a course at the OII called ‘Economic Development in Digital Capitalism‘ that focuses on the winners and losers in the contexts of rapidly changing global connectivity. The course examines how the digital economy can impact on the economic positionalities of people and practices at economic peripheries. I have previously taught courses on: Advanced Qualitative Research, Social Research Methods and the Internet, Globalisation, Introduction to Human Geography, the Collection and Analysis of Geographic Data, Economic Geography, and GIS.
Awards
I am grateful to have had much of my research funded by donors such as the European Research Council, the ESRC, the British Academy, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, IDRC, NSF, and the Leverhulme Trust. I am also fortunate to have been able to work with a diverse, creative, and smart group of scholars and activists.
Other
I try to maintain a blog to regularly share thoughts and new outputs. If you want to get in touch, you can find my contact details on this page.
I come from a working class background, and feel strongly about the roles that an elite university like Oxford can (and should) play in broadly disseminating knowledge beyond its walls, and in attempting to amplify the voices of traditionally marginalised groups. Students and colleagues in similar situations, my door is open.
Recent books
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Woodcock, J. and Graham, M. 2019. The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge: Polity.
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Graham, M, Kitchin, R., Mattern, S., and Shaw, J. (eds). 2019. How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. London: Meatspace Press.
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Graham, M and Dutton, W. H. (eds). 2019. Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives (second edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Graham, M. (ed). 2019. Digital Economies at Global Margins. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Select Current Writing
- Graham, M. 2020. Regulate, replicate, and resist – The conjunctural geographies of platform urbanism. Urban Geography.
- Graham, M., and Anwar, M. A. 2019. The Global Gig Economy: Towards a Planetary Labour Market? First Monday. 24(4). doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i4.9913.
- Graham, M., Hjorth, I., Lehdonvirta, V. 2017. Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024258916687250.
- Graham, M., Straumann, R., Hogan, B. 2016. Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(6) 1158-1178. doi:10.1080/00045608.2015.1072791.(pre-publication version here)
- Graham, M., De Sabbata, S., Zook, M. 2015. Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information Geo: Geography and Environment.2(1) 88-105. doi:10.1002/geo2.8
- Graham, M. 2015. Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector. Environment and Planning A 47 867-883 (pre-publication version here).
For more of my writing, please visit my full list of publications.
Positions held at the OII
- Professor of Internet Geography, July 2016 –
- Senior Research Fellow and Associate Professor, May 2014 – June 2016
- Senior Research Fellow, August 2013 – May 2014
- Director of Research, October 2012 – December 2013
- Research Fellow, October 2009 – July 2013
Students supervised at the OII
Current students
Past students
Research
Past projects
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GCRF Decent Work: FAIRWORK in the Platform Economy in the Global South
Participants: Prof D'Arcy Du Toit, Prof Sandra Fredman, Prof Mark Graham, Prof Richard Heeks, Prof Jean-Paul Van Belle, Dr Jamie Woodcock
This project aims to understand the contextual, contractual and practical nature of platform work, to identify its shortfall from decent work standards and to contribute to the development of its governance and regulation.
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A Fairwork Foundation: Towards fair work in the platform economy
Participants: Professor Mark Graham
The Fairwork Foundation will certify online labour platforms, using leverage from workers, consumers, and platforms to improve the welfare and job quality of digital workers.
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GeoNet: Changing Connectivities and the Potentials of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Knowledge Economy
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Stefano De Sabbata, Nicolas Friederici, Dr Christopher Foster, Sanna Ojanperä, Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar, Dr Fabian Braesemann, Michel Wahome
This research project is examining the geographies, drivers, and effects of Sub-Saharan Africa's emerging information economies at a time of changing connectivity and Internet access across the region.
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Internet Geographies Leverhulme Prize
Participants: Prof Mark Graham, Dr Martin Dittus
As digital augmentations of our world become ever more embedded into everyday life, this project asks where they are, what they are, and who owns, controls, and can shape them.
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Economic Geographies of the Darknet
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Joss Wright, Martin Dittus
This project investigates the economic geographies of illegal economic activities in anonymous internet marketplaces.
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Wikipedia’s Networks and Geographies: Representation and Power in Peer-Produced Content
Participants: Dr Han-Teng Liao, Dr Bernie Hogan, Professor Mark Graham, Dr Scott A. Hale, Dr Heather Ford
This project brings together OII research fellows and doctoral students to shed light on the incorporation of new users and information into the Wikipedia community.
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Wikichains: Encouraging Transparency in Commodity Chains
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Steve New, Joe Shaw
Wikichains is a website that aims to encourage ethical consumption and transparency in commodity chains, by encouraging Internet users from around the world to upload text, images, sounds, and videos of any node on any commodity chain.
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Internet Geographies: Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Joshua Melville, Dr Stefano De Sabbata
This project maps and measures the geographies of information on the Internet.
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Big Data and Human Development
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Fabian Braesemann
The big data and human development research network aims to investigate the potential uses of 'big data' for advancing human development and addressing equity gaps.
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Microwork and Virtual Production Networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Isis Hjorth, Professor Vili Lehdonvirta, Dr Alex J Wood, Professor Helena Barnard
This project aims to understand the implications of gig economy and online freelancing for economic development.
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Geography of Digital Inequality
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Grant Blank, Claudio Calvino
This project combined OxIS and census data to produce the first detailed geographic estimates of Internet use across the UK.
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Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Laura Elizabeth Mann, Dr Christopher Foster, Professor Tim Waema, Charles Katua, Dr Felix Akorli, Claude Bizimana
By using surveys, interviews and in-depth observations, this project examined the expectations and stated potentials of broadband Internet in East Africa and compared those expectations to on-the-ground effects that broadband connectivity is having.
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Does Wikipedia represent ‘the sum of all human knowledge’? Examining the geographical scope of a peer-produced encyclopedia
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Heather Ford, Brent Hecht, Dave Musicant, Shilad Sen
This project aims to develop a set of lenses for analyzing Wikipedia’s geographical scope whilst employing a reflexive analytical process to expose the makings of the ‘big data’ that we will produce.
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Who represents the Arab world online? Mapping and measuring local knowledge production and representation in the Middle East and North Africa
Participants: Dr Bernie Hogan, Professor Mark Graham, Richard Farmbrough, Clarence Singleton, Dr Heather Ford, Dr Ilhem Allagui, Dr Ali Frihida, Ahmed Medhat Mohamed
Using Wikipedia to explore the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are pushed to the side, in representations of the Arab world online.
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Using Twitter to Map and Measure Online Cultural Diffusion
Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Dr Scott A. Hale, Devin Gaffney, Dr Ning Wang
This project is using Twitter data to comprehensively uncover where Internet content is being created; whether the amount of content created in different places is changing over time; and how content moves across time and space in the Social Web.
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Interactive Visualizations for Teaching, Research, and Dissemination
Participants: Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Mark Graham, Dr Scott A. Hale, Dr Monica Bulger, Joshua Melville
"InteractiveVis" aims to support easy creation of interactive visualisations for geospatial and network data by researchers: it will survey existing solutions, build currently missing features, and smooth over incompatibilities between existing libraries.
Books
Woodcock, J. and Graham, M. 2019. The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge: Polity.
Graham, M, Kitchin, R., Mattern, S., and Shaw, J. (eds). 2019. How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. London: Meatspace Press.
Graham, M and Dutton, W. H. (eds). 2019. Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives (second edition). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Graham, M. (ed). 2019. Digital Economies at Global Margins. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Graham, M and Dutton, W. H. (eds). 2014. Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hammett, D., Twyman, K. C., and Graham, M. 2014. Research and Fieldwork in Development. London: Routledge.
Pamphlets
Graham, M and Shaw, J. (eds). 2017. Towards a Fairer Gig Economy. London: Meatspace Press. (also translated into Italian)
Shaw, J and Graham, M. (eds). 2017. Our Digital Rights to the City. London: Meatspace Press.
Shaw, J and Graham, M. (eds). 2017. Il nostro diritto digitale alla città. Rome: Openpolis.
Graham, M., S. Hale and M. Stephens. 2011. Geographies of the World’s Knowledge. Convoco! Edition.
Graham, M., S. Hale and M. Stephens. 2011. Eine Geographie Des Wissens Der Welt. Convoco! Edition.
Selected publications
Graham, M. 2020. Regulate, replicate, and resist – The conjunctural geographies of platform urbanism. Urban Geography. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2020.1717028
Anwar, M. A. and Graham, M. 2020. Digital Labour at Economic Margins: African Workers and the Global Information Economy, Review of African Political Economy.
Graham, M., Woodcock, J., Heeks, R., Mungai, P., Van Belle, J-P., du Toit, D., Fredman, S., Osiki, A., van der Spuy, A., Silberman, S. 2020. The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for improving platform work in a global context. Geoforum. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2020.01.023
Anwar, M. A. and Graham, M. 2020. Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Freedom, Flexibility, Precarity and Vulnerability in the Gig Economy in Africa, Competition and Change. Special Issue on Digitalisation and Labour in the Global Economy.
Stephany, F., Braesemann, F. & Graham, M. 2020. Coding together – coding alone: the role of trust in collaborative programming, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2020.1749699
Anwar, M. A. and Graham, M. (2019) Hidden Transcripts of the Gig Economy: Labour Agency and the New Art of Resistance among African Gig Workers. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19894584
Dittus, M. and Graham, M. 2019. Mapping Wikipedia’s Geolinguistic Contours. Digital Culture & Society. 5(1). 147-164.
Braesemann, F., Stoehr, N., and Graham, M.. 2019. Global networks in collaborative programming Regional Studies, Regional Science. 6(1). 371-373 doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2019.1588155
Graham, M., and Anwar, M. A. 2019. The Global Gig Economy: Towards a Planetary Labour Market? First Monday. 24(4). doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i4.9913. (republished in In Larsson A and Teigland R (Eds) ‘The Digital Transformation of Labor: Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare. London: Routledge).
Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., and Zook, M. 2019. The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production. The Journal of Development Studies. DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2018.1554208.
Anwar, M. A., and Graham, M. 2019. Does economic upgrading lead to social upgrading in contact centers? Evidence from South Africa. African Geographical Review. DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2019.1589730
Wood, A., Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, A., and Hjorth, I. 2019. Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy. Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038519828906
Wood A.J, Graham M and Anwar M. A. 2019. Minimum Wages for Online Labor Platforms? Regulating the Global Gig Economy. In Larsson A and Teigland R (Eds) ‘The Digital Transformation of Labor: Automation, the Gig Economy and Welfare. London: Routledge. 74-79.
Graham, M. 2019. Changing Connectivity and Digital Economies at Global Margins. In Graham, M. (ed) 2019 Digital Economies at Global Margins. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 1-18.
Foster, C., Graham, M., and Waema, T. M. 2019. Making Sense of Digital Disintermediation and Development: The Case of the Mombasa Tea Auction. In Graham, M. (ed) 2019 Digital Economies at Global Margins. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 55-78.
Graham, M., Hjorth, I., and Lehdonvirta, V. 2019. Digital Labor and Development: Impacts of Global Digital Labor Platforms and the Gig Economy on Worker Livelihoods. In Graham, M. (ed) 2019 Digital Economies at Global Margins. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 269-294.
Graham, M. 2019. There are no rights ‘in’ cyberspace. In Wagner, B., Kettemann, M. C., and Vieth, K. (eds). Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 24-32.
Wood, A., Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, A., and Hjorth, I. 2019. Good Gig, Bad Big: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy. Work, Employment and Society. 33(1). 56-75 https://doi.org/10.1177/0950017018785616
Graham, M. and Anwar, M.A. 2018. Digital Labour In: Digital Geographies Ash, J., Kitchin, R. and Leszczynski, A. (eds.). Sage: London. 177-187.
Graham, M. and Anwar, M. A. 2018. Two Models for a Fairer Sharing Economy. In Davidson, N. M., Finck, M., Infranca, J. J. (eds). The Cambridge Handbook of The Law of the Sharing Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 316-327.
Wood, A., Lehdonvirta, V., and Graham, M. 2018. Workers of the Internet unite? Online freelancer organisation among remote gig economy workers in six Asian and African countries. New Technology, Work and Employment. 33(2). 95-112. 10.1111/ntwe.12112. (pre-publication version here)
Graham, M., De Sabbata, S., Straumann, R., and Ojanperä, S. 2018. Uneven Digital Geographies…and Why They Matter. In Kollektiv Orangotango+ (eds). This is Not an Atlas. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 310-318.
Shaw, J., and Graham, M. 2018. Ein Informationelles Recht auf Stadt. In Bauriedl, S., and Strüver, A. (eds). Smart City – Kritische Perspektiven auf die Digitalisierung in Städten. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. 177-204.
Dittus, M., Wright, J., and Graham, M. 2018. Platform Criminalism: The ‘Last-Mile’ Geography of the Darknet Market Supply Chain. In Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference (WWW ’18). International World Wide Web Conferences Steering Committee, Republic and Canton of Geneva, Switzerland, 277-286. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186094 (pre-publication version here)
Lehdonvirta, V., Kässi, O., Hjorth, I., Barnard, H., and Graham, M. 2018. The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders. Journal of Management. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206318786781
Graham, M. and Woodcock, J. 2018. Towards a Fairer Platform Economy: Introducing the Fairwork Foundation. Alternate Routes. 29. 242-253.
Zook, M. and Graham, M. 2018. Hacking Code/Space: Confounding the Code of Global Capitalism. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 43 (3). 390-404. 10.1111/tran.12228.
Graham, M. 2018. The Virtual Palimpsest of the Global City Network. In The Globalizing Cities Reader. eds. X. Ren and R. Keil. Abingdon:Routledge. 198-204.
Stephens, M., Tong, L., Hale, S., and Graham, M. 2018. Misogyny, Twitter, and the Rural Voter. In Watrel, R. H., Weichelt, R., Davidson, F. M., Heppen, J., Fouberg, E. H., Archer, J. C., Morrill, R. L., Shelley, F. M., Martis, K. C. (eds). Atlas of the 2016 Elections. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. 55-57.
Graham, M. 2018. Rethinking the Geoweb and Big Data: Future Research Directions. In Thinking Big Data in Geography: New Regimes, New Research. Thatcher, J., Eckert, J., and Shears, A. (eds). University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln. 231-236.
Graham, M., Ojanpera, S., Anwar, M. A., and Friederici, N. 2017. Digital Connectivity and African Knowledge Economies. Questions de Communication. 32. 345-360.
Foster, C., Graham, M., Mann, L., Waema, T., and Friederici, N. 2017. Digital Control in Value Chains: Challenges of Connectivity for East African Firms. Economic Geography. 94(1) 68-86.
Ballatore, A., Graham, M., and Sen, S. 2017. Digital Hegemonies: The Localness of Search Engine Results. Annals of the American Association of Geographers. 107(5) 1194-1215 DOI:10.1080/24694452.2017.1308240.
Graham, M., Hjorth, I., Lehdonvirta, V. 2017. Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods. Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research. 23 (2) 135-162. https://doi.org/10.1177/1024258916687250.
Ojanperrä, A., Graham, M., Straumann, R., De Sabbata, S., and Zook, M. 2017. Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of Content Creation with a Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Information Technologies and International Development. 13. 33-51.
Blank, G., Graham, M., Calvino, C. 2017. Local Geographies of Digital Inequality. Social Science Computer Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439317693332
Shaw, J. and Graham, M. 2017. An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content, Control, and the Urbanization of Information. Antipode. 49(4) 907-927. 10.1111/anti.12312
Friederici, N. Ojanperä, S., and Graham, M. 2017. The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. 79(2) 1-20.
Graham, M. 2017. Digitally Augmented Geographies. In Understanding Spatial Media. eds. Kitchin, R., Lauriault, T. P., and Wilson, M. W. London: Sage. 44-55.
Foster, C. and Graham, M. 2017. Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks. Global Networks. 17(1) 68-88 DOI: 10.1111/glob.12142.
Ford, H. and Graham, M. 2016. Provenance, Power, and Place: Linked Data and Opaque Digital geographies. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. doi:10.1177/0263775816668857 34(6). 957-970. (pre-publication version here).
Smart, C., Donner, J., and Graham, M. 2016. Connecting the World from the Sky: Spatial Discourses Around Internet Access in the Developing World. Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2909609.2909659
Straumann, R. K., Graham, M. 2016. Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection.’Regional Studies, Regional Science. 3(1) 96-98.
Mann, L and Graham, M. 2016 The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations. Journal of Development Studies 52:4, 530-548, DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2015.1126251. (pre-publication version here)
Graham, M., and Foster, C. 2016. Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, The African Technopolitan. 5 78-85.
Graham, M., Mann, L., Friederici, N. and Waema, T. 2016. Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector, The African Technopolitan. 5 93-95
Ford, H., and Graham, M. 2016. Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web. In Code and the City. eds. Kitchin, R., and Perng, S-Y. London: Routledge. 200-214.
Poorthuis, A., Zook, M., Shelton, T., Graham, M, and Stephens, M. 2016. Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research. In Key Methods in Geography. eds. Clifford, N., French, S., Cope, M., and Gillespie, T. London: Sage. 248-269.
Graham, M., Straumann, R., Hogan, B. 2015. Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(6) 1158-1178. doi:10.1080/00045608.2015.1072791.(pre-publication version here)
Graham, M. 2015. Information Geographies and Geographies of Information New Geographies 7 159-166.
Graham, M., De Sabbata, S., Zook, M. 2015. Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information Geo: Geography and Environment.2(1) 88-105. doi:10.1002/geo2.8
Graham, M. 2015. Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector. Environment and Planning A 47 867-883 (pre-publication version here).
Graham, M., Andersen, C., and Mann, L. 2015 Geographical Imagination and Technological Connectivity in East Africa. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 40(3) 334-349. (pre-publication version here).
Graham, M and De Sabbata, S. 2015 Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers. Environment and Planning A 47(6). 1254-1264. (pre-publication version here).
Sen, S. W., Ford, H., Musicant, D. R., Graham, M., Keyes, O. S. B., Hecht, B. 2015 Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information. CHI 2015 (pre-publication version here).
Allagui, I., Graham, M., and Hogan, B. 2015. Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir. In Wikipedia, objet scientifique non identifie. eds. Barbe, L., Merzeau, L., and Schafer, V. Paris: Presses Universitaries du Paris Ouest. 177-194.
Zook, M., Graham, M., and Boulton, A. 2015. Crowd-sourced Augmented Realities: Social Media and the Power of Digital Representation. In Mediated Geographies International Handbook. eds. Mains, S., Cupples, J.,and Lukinbeal, C. New York: Springer. 223-242.
Graham, M., Hogan, B., Straumann, R. K., and Medhat, A. 2014. Uneven Geographies of User-Generated Information: Patterns of Increasing Informational Poverty. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 104(4). 746-764. (pre-publication version here)
Graham, M. 2014 Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content. innovations 9(3-4). 17-34.
Choi, J. H-j., and Graham, M. 2014 Urban Food Futures: ICTs and Opportunities. Futures 62(B; October). 151-154. (pre-publication version here)
Shelton, T., Poorthuis, A., Graham, M,. and Zook, M. 2014. Mapping the Data Shadows of Hurricane Sandy: Uncovering the Sociospatial Dimensions of ‘Big Data’. Geoforum 52. 167-179. (open pre-publication version here).
Dutton, W. H., and Graham, M. 2014. Introduction. In Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives. eds. Graham, M., and Dutton, W. H. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1-22.
Graham, M. 2014. Internet Geographies: Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour. In Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives. eds. Graham, M., and Dutton, W. H. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 99-116.
Graham, M. 2014. A Critical Perspective on the Potential of the Internet at the Margins of the Global Economy. In Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing our Lives. eds. Graham, M., and Dutton, W. H. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 301-318.
Graham, M. 2014. The Knowledge Based Economy and Digital Divisions of Labour. In Companion to Development Studies, 3rd edition, eds V. Desai, and R. Potter. Hodder. 189-195.
Graham, M. and Zook, M. 2014. Augmentierte Geographien: Zur digitalen Erfahrung des städtischen Alltags. Geographische Rundschau. 65(6) 18-25.
Yasseri, T., Spoerri, A., Graham, M. and Kertesz, J. 2014. The Most Controversial Topics in Wikipedia: A Multilingual and Geographical Anlaysis. In Global Wikipedia: International and Cross-Cultural Issues in Online Collaboration. eds. Fichman, P., and Hara, N. Plymouth: Rowman & Littlefield 25-48.
Graham, M, S. Hale, and D. Gaffney. 2014. Where in the World are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter. The Professional Geographer 66(4) 568-578. (pre-publication version here)
Graham, M. and Shelton, T. 2013. Geography and the Future of Big Data; Big Data and the Future of Geography. Dialogues in Human Geography 3(3) 255-261. (pre-publication version here)
Graham, M. and H. Haarstad. 2013. Open Development through Open Consumption: The Internet of Things, User-Generated Content and Economic Transparency. In Open Development: Networked Innovations in International Development. eds. Smith, M. L., and Reilly, K. M. A., Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 79-111.
Graham, M. 2013. The Virtual Dimension. In Global City Challenges: debating a concept, improving the practice. eds. M. Acuto and W. Steele. London: Palgrave. 117-139.
Graham, M, R. Schroeder, and G. Taylor. 2013. Re: Search New Media and Society. 15(8) 1366-1373 (pre-publication version here).
Graham, M. 2013. Social Media and the Academy: New Publics or Public Geographies? Dialogues in Human Geography 3(1) 77-80 (pre-publication version here).
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.
Wilson, M and M. Graham. 2013. Guest Editorial: Situating Neogeography. Environment and Planning A 45(1) 3-9.
Graham, M. 2013. Geography/Internet: Ethereal Alternate Dimensions of Cyberspace or Grounded Augmented Realities? The Geographical Journal 179(2) 177-182. (pre-publication version here).
Graham, M., Shelton, T., and M. Zook. 2013. Mapping Zombies: A Guide for Pre-Apocalptic Analysis and Post-Apocalytpic Survival. In Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in Higher Education. eds. A. Whelan, R. Walker and C. Moore. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 147-156.
Graham, M. and L. Mann. 2013. Imagining a Silicon Savannah? Technological and Conceptual Connectivity in Kenya’s BPO and Software Development Sectors. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. 56(2). 1-19.
Crampton, J. W., M. Graham, A. Poorthuis, T. Shelton, M. Stephens, M. W. Wilson, and M. Zook. 2013. Beyond the Geotag: Situating ‘big data’ and leveraging the potential of the geoweb. Cartography and Geographic Information Science. 40(2): 130-139.
Graham, M. 2013. Thai Silk dot Com: Authenticity, Altruism, Modernity and Markets in the Thai Silk Industry. Globalisations 10(2) 211-230.
Graham, M., M. Zook., and A. Boulton. 2013. Augmented Reality in Urban Places: contested content and the duplicity of code. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 38(3), 464-479. (pre-publication version here)
Shelton, T., M. Zook and M.Graham. 2012. The Technology of Religion: Mapping Religious Cyberscapes. The Professional Geographer 64(4). 602-617.
Graham, M., S. Hale, and M. Stephens. 2012. Digital Divide: The Geography of Internet Access. Environment and Planning A, 44(5). 1009-1010.
Brunn, S., R. Ghose and M. Graham. 2012. Cities of the Future and the Future of Cities. In Cities of the World, 5th edition, eds S. Brunn, M. Hays-Mitchell, and D. Ziegler. Rowman and Littlefield, 557-597.
Graham, M. and H. Haarstad. 2012. Global Production Patterns. In 21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook. ed. Stoltman, J. London: Sage. 411-421.
Graham, M. 2012. Die Welt in Der Wikipedia Als Politik der Exklusion: Palimpseste des Ortes und selective Darstellung. In Wikipedia. eds. S. Lampe, and P. Bäumer. Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung/bpb, Bonn.
Graham, M. 2011. “Perish or Globalize:” Network Integration and the Reproduction and Replacement of Weaving Traditions in the Thai Silk Industry ACME: Journal of Critical Geographies 10(3) 458-482.
Graham, M. and H. Haarstad. 2011. Transparency and Development: Ethical Consumption through Web 2.0 and the Internet of Things. Information Technologies and International Development. 7(1). 1-18.
Graham, M. 2011. Wiki Space: Palimpsests and the Politics of Exclusion. In Critical Point of View: A Wikipedia Reader. Eds. Lovink, G. and Tkacz, N. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, 269-282.
Graham, M. 2011. Time Machines and Virtual Portals: The Spatialities of the Digital Divide. Progress in Development Studies. 11 (3). 211-227.
Graham, M. and M. Zook. 2011. Visualizing Global Cyberscapes: Mapping User Generated Placemarks. Journal of Urban Technology. 18(1), 115-132.
Graham, M. 2011. Cultural Brokers, the Internet, and Value Chains. In The Cultural Wealth of Nations. eds. Wherry, F. and N. Bandelj. Standford: Stanford University Press. 222-239 (email for a copy).
Graham, M. 2011. Disintermediation, Altered Chains and Altered Geographies: The Internet in the Thai Silk Industry. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. 45(5), 1-25
Graham, M. 2011. Cloud Collaboration: Peer-Production and the Engineering of the Internet. In Engineering Earth. ed. Brunn, S. New York: Springer, 67-83.
Graham, M. 2010. Justifying Virtual Presence in the Thai Silk Industry: Links Between Data and Discourse. Information Technologies and International Development. 6(4), 57-70.
Zook, M., M. Graham, T. Shelton, & S. Gorman. 2010. Volunteered Geographic Information and Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief: A Case Study of the Haitian Earthquake.World Medical and Health Policy. 2(2), 7-33.
Graham, M. 2010. Neogeography and the Palimpsests of Place. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 101(4), 422-436. (pre-publication version here)
Zook, M. and M. Graham. 2010. The Virtual ‘Bible Belt.’ Environment and Planning A. 42(4), 763-764.
Graham, M. 2010. Web 2.0 and Critical Globalization Studies. Radical Teacher. 87, 70-71.
Graham, M. 2009. Different Models in Different Spaces or Liberalized Optimizations? Competitive Strategies among Budget Air Carriers. Journal of Transport Geography. 17(4), 306-316.
Graham, M. 2008. Warped Geographies of Development: The Internet and Theories of Economic Development. Geography Compass, 2(3), 771-789. (pre-publication version here)
Brunn, S., R. Ghose, & M. Graham. 2008. Cities of the Future and the Future of Cities. In Cities of the World, 4th edition, eds S. Brunn, M. Hays-Mitchell, and D. Ziegler. Rowman and Littlefield, 565-613.
Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2007. The Creative Reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the Privatization of Cyberspace and DigiPlace. Geoforum, 38, 1322-1343.
Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2007. From Cyberspace to DigiPlace: Visibility in an Age of Information and Mobility. In Societies and Cities in the Age of Instant Access. Ed. H. J. Miller. Springer, 231-244. (request copy by email).
Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2007. Mapping DigiPlace: Geocoded Internet Data and the Representation of Place. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design. 34(3) 466 – 482.
Zook, M. & M. Graham. 2006. Wal-Mart Nation: Mapping the Reach of a Retail Colossus. In Wal-Mart World. Ed. S. Brunn. Routledge, 15-25.
Fiction
Graham, M. 2020. Platform Socialism. In Fecher, B. (ed). twentyforty – Utopias for a Digital Society. Berlin: Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society. 187-207. https://zenodo.org/record/3677158
Graham, M. 2019. City of Loops. Alphabet. In Graham, M, Kitchin, R., Mattern, S., and Shaw, J. (eds). How to Run a City Like Amazon, and Other Fables. London: Meatspace Press. 101-143.
Other publications
Graham, M., Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., Bertolini, A., Katta, S., Bertolini, A., Badger, A., and Ferrari, F. 2020. If platforms do not protect gig workers, who will? New Internationalist. April 23, 2020.
Graham, M. and Anwar, M. A. 2020. Made in Africa: African digital labour in the value chains of AI. Social Europe. April 16, 2020.
Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Bertolini, A., Katta, S., Ferrari, F., and Howson, K. 2020. From Social Distancing to Social Solidarity: Gig economy and the Covid-19. OECD Development Matters. March 27, 2020.
Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Katta, S., Ferrari, F., Badger, A., Howson, K., and Neerukonda, M. 2020. The politics of Covid-19: Gig work in the coronavirus crisis. Red Pepper. March 26, 2020.
Ustek-Spilda, F., Graham, M., Katta, S., Howson, K., Ferrari, F., and Bertolini, A. 2020. The Untenable Luxury of Self-Isolation. New Internationalist. March 18, 2020.
Katta, S., Howson, K., and Graham, M. 2020. The Fairwork Foundation: Action Research on the Gig Economy. Global Dialogue. 10(1). 44-46.
Miller, S., El-Bahrawy, A., Dittus, M., Graham, M., and Wright, J. 2020. Predicting Drug Demand with Wikipedia Views: Evidence from Darknet Markets. In Proceedings of The Web Conference 2020 (WWW ’20), April 20–24, 2020, Taipei, Taiwan. ACM, New York, NY, USA 7 Pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3366423.3380022
Katta, S., Howson, K., Ustek-Spilda, F., and Graham, M. 2020. Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘charter of good work’ is nothing but fairwashing. openDemocracy. Feb 3, 2020. Also translated into Portuguese: O lobo cuida do galinheiro. CartaCapital. Feb 17, 2020.
Ferrari, F., and Graham, M. 2019. Myth: Digital Work is Immaterial. In Bust-ed! The Truth About the 50 Most Common Internet Myths. In Kettemann, M. C., and Dreyer, S. (eds). Berlin: Internet Governance Forum. 146-149.
Dittus, M., Ojanperä, S. and Graham, M. 2019. Myth: There is no “there” on the Internet. In Busted! The Truth About the 50 Most Common Internet Myths. In Kettemann, M. C., and Dreyer, S. (eds). Berlin: Internet Governance Forum. 156-159.
Graham, M, Woodcock, J., Heeks, R., Fredman, S., du Toit, D., van Belle, J-P., Mungai, P., Osiki, A. 2019. The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for Improving Platform Work. In Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019 “Challenges of Digital Inequality – Digital Education, Digital Work, Digital Life” (pp. 1-8). Berlin https://doi.org/10.34669/wi.cp/2.13
Graham, M. 2019. How to build a fairer gig economy in 4 steps. World Economic Forum. Nov 1. (also translated into Portuguese in Carta Capital)
Graham, M., Englert, S., and Woodcock, J. 2019. Holding platforms accountable to digital workers’ rights. New Internationalist. May 01, 2019.
Graham, M., Ferrari, F., and Woodcock, J. 2019. Plattformökonomie braucht Mindeststandards. Der Tagesspiegel. Apr 15, 2019.
Gillwald, A., Graham, M., Englert, S., van der Spuy, A., and Woodcock, J. 2019. Fairwork exposes exploitation in gig economy amid regulatory vacuum. Business Day (South Africa). Apr 11, 2019.
Wood, A. J. and Graham, M. 2019. Networked but commodified: digital labour in the remote gig economy. New Internationalist. Feb 28, 2019.
Woodcock, J., and Graham, M. 2019. How can we better regulate digital platform capitalism to protect workers? LabourList. Feb 22, 2019.
Ojanperä, S, O’Clery, N, and Graham, M. 2018. Data science, artificial intelligence and the futures of work. Alan Turing Institute Report. October 24. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1470609
Dittus, M., and Graham, M. 2018. To reduce inequality, Wikipedia needs to start paying editors. Wired. Sept 11, 2018.
Graham, M. 2018. Communications. In The Times Comprehensive Atlas of the World. London: Times Books. 28-29.
Wood, A. J. and Graham, M. 2018. Can African and Asian workers challenge exploitation in the gig economy? New Internationalist. Aug 8, 2018.
Wood, A.J. and Graham, M. 2018. The government consultation on employment classification and control: a response. Response to the UK Government open consultation on employment status. Feb 7, 2018.
Graham, M. 2018. The UK universities strike is the frontline of the gig economy fight. Wired. Mar 12, 2018.
Graham, M. 2018. The Rise of the Planetary Labour Market. New Statesman. Jan 29, 2018. (republished in Technosphere, The Invisible Worker, and the RSA’s Field Guide to the Future of Work)
Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, L., Wood., A., Barnard, H., and Hjorth, I. 2018. Could Online Gig Work Drive Development in Lower-income Countries? In Galperin, H., and Alarcon, A. The Future of Work in the Global South. Ottawa: IDRC. 8-11.
Graham, M., and Sengupta, A. 2017. We’re all connected now, so why is the internet so white and western? The Guardian. Oct 5, 2017.
Wood, A., and Graham, M. 2017. Virtual Monopolies and The Workers’ Voice. iai News. Sept 4, 2017.
Ojanperä, S., and Graham, M. 2017. Africa risks fading from digital knowledge economy. SciDevNet, June 6, 2017.
Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, V., Wood, A., Barnard, H., Hjorth, I., and Simon, D. P. 2017. The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins. Oxford: Oxford Internet Institute.
Graham, M. and Wood, A. 2017. How to resist the exploitation of digital gig workers. Red Pepper. Apr 14, 2017
Graham, M. and Shaw, J. 2017. An ‘Informational Right to the City’?. New Internationalist. Feb 8, 2017
Graham, M. Friederici, N. Ojanperä, S. 2017. The Link Between Internet Access and Economic Growth Is Not as Strong as You Think. Council on Foreign Relations: Net Politics.
Wood, A., Graham, M., Anwar, M. A., Ramizo, G. 2017. Minimum wages on online labour platforms. Oxford Internet Institute.
Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, V., Barnard, H., Wood, A., Hjorth, I., Azarhoosh, K., and Simon, D. 2017. Written evidence to the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into self-employment and the gig economy.
Graham, M. 2016. Let’s make platform capitalism more accountable. New Internationalist. Dec 13, 2016
Graham, M. and Wood, A. 2016. Why the digital gig economy needs co-ops and unions. openDemocracy. Sept 15, 2016
Graham, M. 2016. Digital work marketplaces impose a new balance of power. New Internationalist. May 25, 2016
Graham, M. 2016. Organising the Digital “Wild West”: Can Strategic Bottlenecks Help Prevent a Race to the Bottom for Online Workers? Union Solidarity International. May 11, 2016 (also translated into Turkish)
Graham, M. 2016. Digital Work and the Global Precariat. Union Solidarity International. Mar 30, 2016
Graham, M. 2016. Facebook is no Charity, and the ‘Free’ in Free Basics Comes at a Price. The Conversation Jan 11, 2016
Graham, M. 2015. Why Does Google Say Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel? Slate.com Nov 30, 2015
Zook M, T Shelton, A Poorthuis, R Donohue, M Wilson, M Graham, M Stephens. 2015. What would a floating sheep map? Lexington, KY: Oves Natantes Press. http://manifesto.floatingsheep.org
Graham, M. 2015. Internet For All Is An Impossible Dream Right Now. Gizmodo Oct 11, 2015 /Internet for all Remains an Impossible Dream, No Matter What Jimmy Wales Says. The Conversation Oct 8, 2015.
Graham, M. 2015. Digital Work Signals a Global Race to the Bottom. SciDevNet Sept 15, 2015
Graham, M. 2015. The Hidden Biases of Geodata. The Guardian Apr 28, 2015.
Foster, C. G., and Graham, M. 2015. Connectivity and the Tea Sector in Rwanda.Oxford Internet Institute Report, Oxford, UK.
Foster, C. G., and Graham, M. 2015. The Internet and Tourism in Rwanda. Oxford Internet Institute Report, Oxford, UK.
Mann, L., Graham, M., and Friederici, N. 2015. The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa. Oxford Internet Institute Report, Oxford, UK.
Graham, M. 2014. Why global contributions to Wikipedia are so unequal. The Conversation September 8, 2014
Graham, M. 2014. Geotagging reveals Wikipedia is not quite so equal after all. New StatesmanAugust 18, 2014.
Graham, M. and B. Hogan. 2014. Uneven Openness: Barriers to MENA Representation on Wikipedia. Oxford Internet Institute Report, Oxford, UK.
Graham, M. 2014. Kenya BPO and ITES Policy Brief. OII White Paper March 2014
Graham, M. 2013. Kenya’s Laptop’s For Schools Dream Fails to Address Reality. The Guardian June 27, 2013.
Graham, M. 2013. Geographies of Information in Africa: Wikipedia and User-Generated Content. In R-Link: Rwanda’s Official ICT Magazine. Kigali: Rwanda ICT Chamber. 40-41.
Graham, M, M. Stephens, and S. Hale. 2013. Mapping the Geoweb: A Geography of Twitter. Environment and Planning A 45(1) 100-102.
Wilson, M and M. Graham. 2013. Neogeography and Volunteered Geographic Information: A Conversation with Michael Goodchild and Andrew Turner. Environment and Planning A 45(1) 10-18.
Graham, M. 2013. Reaching Audiences Through Blogs and Social Media. In Publishing and Getting Read: A Guide for Researchers in Geography. Eds. A. Blunt, and C. Souch. London: Royal Geographical Society. 34.
Graham, M. 2012. The Problem with Wikidata. The Atlantic Apr 6, 2012.
Graham, M. 2012. Big data and the end of theory? The Guardian Mar 9, 2012.
Graham, M. 2012. In a Networked World, Why is the Geography of Knowledge Still Uneven?The Guardian Jan 9, 2012.
Zook, M., M. Graham, & T. Shelton. 2011. Analyzing Global Cyberscapes: Mapping Geocoded Internet Information. Proceedings of the 2011 iConference.
Graham, M. 2010. A New Kind of Globalisation? User-Generated Content and Transparent Production Chains. The Guardian. Dec 9, 2010.
Graham, M. 2010. Will Broadband Internet Establish a New Development Trajectory for East Africa?. The Guardian Oct 7, 2010.
Graham, M. 2010. The Digital Economy. Book review essay in Regional Studies. 44:3, 385-386.
Zook, M., M. Graham & T. Shelton 2010. The Presidential Placemark Poll. Atlas of the 2008 Election. Ed. S. Brunn. In Press.
Graham, M., T. Shelton and M. Zook. 2010. Map of U.S. Abortion Providers and Alternatives. In Mapping America: Exploring the Continent. Eds. F. C. Kessler and F. Jacobs. Black Dog Publishing. 140-141.
Graham, M. 2009. Wikipedia’s Known Unknowns. The Guardian Dec 2, 2009.
Graham, M. 2009. Ethical Consumption and Production through Web 2.0: A Call for Participation. Development Geography Specialty Newsletter of the American Association of Geographers. Autumn 2009: 4.
Graham, M. 2009. Fluid Knowledge and Transparency: Using Web 2.0 to Promote Compassionate Consumption. Qualitative Geography Specialty Group Newsletter. March 2009: 3.
Graham, M. 2008. Globalization, Culture, and Inequality. Book review essay in Progress in Development Studies, Vol 8(3), 296-298.
Graham, M. 2006 For Space. Book review essay in Growth and Change, Vol 37:4, 643-645.
Graham, M. 2005. Working in Silicon Valley. Book review essay in Urban Studies Vol. 42:13, 2535-2537.
Graham, M. 2005. Music and the Middle. RIFLe. Fall.
Teaching
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Digital Capitalism and its Inequalities
This course will explore what the digital has done, is doing, and will do to capitalism and all of those who live within it. It encourages students to ask questions about digital technologies and power: who do they empower?; who do they disempower?
Videos
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Digitalisation and Globalised Labour Markets
Recorded: 25 November 2016
Duration: 00:34:22
Professor Mark Graham's speech on Digitalisation and Globalised Labour Markets at UNI Global Union's 2016 Leadership Summit.
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Mark Graham interviewed about gig economy
Recorded: 16 November 2016
Duration: 00:05:16
Professor Mark Graham interviewed about gig economy
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Digitalisation and Global Labour Markets
Recorded: 27 June 2016
Duration: 00:03:59
Video interview with Mark Graham, recorded at the ETUC/ETUI conference 'Shaping the new world of work', 27-29 June 2016.
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Digital Labour and Development: New Knowledge Economies or Digital Sweatshops
Recorded: 10 March 2016
Duration: 00:33:38
Professor Mark Graham explains that Digital labor is increasingly coming to the attention of policy-makers and development practitioners.
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Wikipedia: User Generating the World
Recorded: 15 January 2016
Duration: 00:12:38
Presentation on Mark Graham's Wikipedia research, on the occasion of Wikipedia's 15th Birthday.
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Kapuscinski Development Lecture: e-Society and e-Citizens: From Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development
Recorded: 9 November 2015
Duration: 00:37:00
Mark Graham delivers the Kapuscinski Development Lecture in Tartu, speaking on the Internet and development.
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Mark Graham’s Plenary Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography, Oxford
Recorded: 20 August 2015
Duration: 00:14:02
Mark Graham's Plenary Keynote 'Digital Economies: Reconfiguring uneven geographies' delivered at the Global Conference on Economic Geography, University of Oxford.
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Internet and Information Geographies: Mark Graham at TEDxBradford
Recorded: 5 November 2012
Duration: 00:22:34
Mark Graham examines how people and places are ever more defined by, and made visible through, not only their traditional physical locations and properties, but also their virtual attributes and digital shadows.
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The Potential of the Internet for Development: Digital Divides and Uneven Geographies of Knowledge
Recorded: 13 April 2012
Duration: 00:40:07
The Internet has put information at the centre of the global economy. It is therefore important to understand who produces and reproduces this information, who has access, and who and where is represented in our contemporary knowledge economy.
News
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Uber’s Call for Change in Europe Shirks Responsibility while Highlighting Real Challenges say Fairwork researchers
17 February 2021
The Fairwork project based at the University of Oxford says Uber’s recent white paper on the regulation of gig work in Europe downplays the responsibility of platforms to improve conditions under existing legal frameworks.
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Fairwork Foundation announces Code of Good Practice to protect gig workers in South Africa
6 November 2020
The Fairwork Foundation, in collaboration with researchers and legal academics from the Universities of the Western Cape, Oxford, Cape Town, and Manchester, is launching a new Code of Good Practice for platform workers in South Africa.
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New report calls for gig economy platforms to provide Covid-19 testing for workers
24 September 2020
Researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, urge gig economy platforms to introduce more robust health and safety measures for gig workers.
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Platform economy assessed for first time in Germany: COVID-19 pandemic brings into sharp relief risks faced by workers
21 May 2020
The Fairwork Project launches its first set of annual ratings for digital platforms in Germany, highlighting the precarious nature of work in the platform economy.
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Report finds gig workers are among the most vulnerable groups in South Africa’s Covid-19 crisis
13 May 2020
A research report released today shows that those working in South Africa’s gig economy are falling through the cracks of government and private sector responses to Covid-19.
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Wikipedia traffic and darknet drug market data can help shed light on the opioid epidemic
28 April 2020
Wikipedia traffic and darknet drug market data can help shed light on the opioid epidemic
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New report finds gig economy companies must do more to protect workers during COVID-19
27 April 2020
A new report has shone a light on the plight of some 50 million gig economy workers across the world since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Oxford academics join distinguished World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Future Councils
20 November 2019
Three academics from the Oxford Internet Institute, have been invited to join the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Councils, providing thought leadership on key global challenges and the impact and governance of emerging technologies.
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Oxford academics look at fake news, memes and digital health in update of seminal text
18 July 2019
Professor Mark Graham and Professor William H. Dutton today launch a revised edition of their popular academic reader ‘Society and the Internet, How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives’.
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Gig economy platforms causing “unpaid labour” among workers in developing world
28 February 2019
Gig economy platforms causing “unpaid labour” among workers in developing world
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New research reveals the poor quality working conditions of the digital gig economy
8 August 2018
New research reveals the poor quality working conditions of the digital gig economy
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Fairwork Foundation begins new project on the digital gig economy in South Africa
3 August 2018
Fairwork Foundation begins new project on the digital gig economy in South Africa
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Geography, Big Data, and Augmented Realities
1 August 2012
New digital dimensions of place profoundly affect the ways that we interact with our urban environments. Dr Mark Graham leads a research project to interrogate these virtual layers of the city, asking what they are, where they are, and why they matter.
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OII Recognised as Educational Institution of the Year at Wikimedia UK’s Annual Conference
15 June 2012
The OII has been recognised as Educational Institution of the Year at the "UK Wikimedian of the Year" awards (12 May 2012). The award was made largely in recognition of the work by OII Research Fellow Dr Mark Graham to map and visualise Wikipedia data.
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Which nation talks about football the most in cyberspace?
17 June 2010
Mark Graham uses Google Maps to determine whether the term 'football' or 'soccer' is preferred across the world and which nations like to talk about football the most.
Events
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Digital Transformations of Work Conference
10 March 2016
This conference is presented as part of the Green Templeton Transformation of Work Conference
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Wikipedia 15th Birthday Editathon: The Social Internet
15 January 2016
On Friday 15 January 2016 Wikipedia will celebrate its fifteenth birthday and we are celebrating by having a Wikipedia editathon!
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Global Conference on Economic Geography 2015
Wednesday 19 - Sunday 23 August 2015
DR MARK GRAHAM will be speaking at 'Digital Economies: Reconfiguring uneven geographies: a Plenary Conversation' on Thursday 20 August.
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Urban Food Futures: ICTs and Opportunities
14 December 2011
This symposium brings together leading scholars across disciplines to address challenges and opportunities at the intersection of food and ICTs in everyday urban environment.
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Mapping Social Interactions Online (Doctoral Research Methods Workshop Series, Part 3)
1 December 2011
This is the third workshop in a three-part series on social science research methods, aimed at doctoral students at the University of Oxford.
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Undergraduate Lecture Series (H6): The Digital Economy: Shaping Economic Development in Rich and Poor Nations
21 February 2011
IT shapes economic space and is often promoted as an essential development strategy in both rich and poor countries. What are the dynamics of digitally driven production? What opportunities and tensions arise from non-proximate interactions?
Blog
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Fairwork Ecuador Scores 2021: Rating fairness in the Latin American gig economy
30 March 2021
Authors: María Belén Albornoz, Henry Chávez , Jean-Paul Van Belle, Funda Ustek-Spilda , Alessio Bertolini, Pablo Aguera Reneses , Akhil Kumar, Mark Graham
Fairwork Ecuador Scores 2021: Rating fairness in the Latin American gig economy The Fairwork Ecuador 2021 report evaluates the working conditions in six of ...
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Uber forced to recognise its drivers as workers, but falls short of offering Fair Pay and Representation
17 March 2021
Authors: Srujana Katta, Pablo Aguera, Ahkil Kumar, Funda Ustek Spilda, Kelle Howson, Matthew Cole, Fabian Ferrari, Alessio Bertolini, David Sutcliffe, Mark Graham
By Srujana Katta, Pablo Aguera, Akhil Kumar, Funda Ustek Spilda, Kelle Howson, Matthew Cole, Fabian Ferrari, Alessio Bertolini, David Sutcliffe, Mark Graham A month ...
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Lifting the lid on the gig economy
19 February 2021
Author: Sara Spinks
Fairwork researchers explain how they are shining a light on the experiences of gig workers across the globe by launching a suite of new ...
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California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law
28 October 2020
Authors: Shelly Steward, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Srujana Katta, Mark Graham
California’s Proposition 22 Presents an Alarming Turning Point in Labour Law Researchers from the Fairwork Foundation, Shelly Steward, Pablo Aguera Reneses, Srujana Katta, and ...
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Uneven and contested information geographies: How Wikipedia risks reproducing and reinforcing knowledge inequities through its digital representation of cities
18 September 2020
Authors: Mark Graham, Cailean Osborne
In their new blog, Professor Mark Graham, and Dr Martin Dittus, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Cailean Osborne, a former MSc student ...
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Work for the Fairwork Foundation
23 July 2020
Authors: Mark Graham
Fairwork is an action-research project based at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. We research working conditions in the gig economy, in order ...
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Fairwork announces Voluntary Scoring
14 May 2020
Authors: Dr Funda Ustek-Spilda, Mark Graham, Fabian Ferrari, Adam Badger, Srujana Katta, Kelle Howson, Dr Alessio Bertolini
Fairwork focuses on the major companies that use digital platforms to distribute piecemeal work to workers, in several countries. One of the questions we have been asked is whether platforms who are located outside our focus countries, or ...
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Second round of Fairwork’s yearly platform ratings in South Africa launched!
18 March 2020
Author: Sara Spinks
The Fairwork South Africa 2020 report highlights the precarious nature of work in the South African gig economy. This research is particularly timely in ...
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Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘charter of good work’ is nothing but fairwashing
3 February 2020
Authors: Kelle Howson, Srujana Katta, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Mark Graham
Latest analysis on the gig economy from researchers Kelle Howson, Srujana Katta, Funda Ustek-Spilda and Professor Mark Graham, The authors work at the ...
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New blog: Platforms, power and urbanisation uncovered
27 January 2020
Author: Mark Graham
In his latest blog, Professor Mark Graham explores why thinking about the geographies of platforms is of crucial importance if we are to tame ...
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Hidden Transcripts of the Gig Economy: Labour Agency and the New Art of Resistance among African Gig Workers. (New Publication)
21 December 2019
Author: Mark Graham
I have a new publication out with my colleague Amir Anwar that draws on the years of research we have done with digital workers ...
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BUSTED! – OII researchers help to debunk 50 most common myths about the Internet
27 November 2019
Author: Corinne Cattekwaad
BUSTED! – OII researchers contribute to new book busting 50 of the most common myths about the Internet. Co -author, DPhil candidate Corinne Cath-Spet, explains ...
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How to build a fairer gig economy in 4 steps by Professor Mark Graham
4 November 2019
Author: Mark Graham
You’ve probably heard at least two things about the gig economy. First, that it’s big. In 2019, roughly one-in-10 workers in the UK earns ...
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New book: How to Run a City Like Amazon and Other Fables
29 October 2019
Authors: Mark Graham, Joe Shaw
Should cities be run like businesses? Should city services and infrastructure be run by businesses? For some urban commentators, policy-makers, politicians and corporate lobby ...
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Fairwork Foundation’s First Annual Report Released!
17 October 2019
Authors: Mark Graham, Srujana Katta
The Fairwork Foundation – an organisation supported by the OII – is delighted to announce the release of our first major report, The Five ...
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Coming soon… The Gig Economy A Critical Introduction
17 August 2019
Authors: Mark Graham, Victoria Nash
I’m very happy to announce the first sharable details about my new forthcoming book (co-authored with Jamie Woodcock). The book will be out in ...
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Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives (2nd Edition)
25 July 2019
Author: Mark Graham
I’m thrilled to announce that the second edition of Society and the Internet is now out!! The book has been fully updated since the first edition ...
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Join our team. We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher.
18 June 2019
Author: Mark Graham
Postdoctoral Researcher Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford Grade 7: £32,236 – £39,609 p.a. We are looking for someone to join our team ...
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The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production
23 May 2019
Author: Mark Graham
The Geonet team has a new paper out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., and Zook, M. 2019. The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production. ...
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Will AI kill development?
7 April 2019
Author: Mark Graham
I had the opportunity to contribute to this new BCC World Service programme ‘Will AI kill development?’. Listen here, or contact me for an ...
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New article – The Global Gig Economy: Towards a Planetary Labour Market?
7 April 2019
Author: Mark Graham
Amir Anwar and I have a new article out in First Monday. The piece think through what a planetary labour market entails, how it ...
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Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy
4 March 2019
Author: Mark Graham
I have a new article out with some colleagues: Wood, A., Graham, M., Lehdonvirta, A., and Hjorth, I. 2019. Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness ...
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Two Models for a Fairer Sharing Economy
6 February 2019
Author: Mark Graham
Amir Anwar and I have a new chapter out in The Cambridge Handbook of the Law of the Sharing Economy. The full piece is ...
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We’re Hiring! Work with us as a Researcher
30 January 2019
Author: Mark Graham
We are seeking to appoint a Researcher to work with us at the Fairwork Foundation. This position provides an exciting opportunity to work with ...
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There are no rights ‘in’ cyberspace – new publication
27 January 2019
Author: Mark Graham
I have a chapter out in a nice-looking new book that has put together by Ben Wagner, Matthias Kettemann, and Kilian Vieth. The chapter ...
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Digital Economies at Global Margins
24 January 2019
Authors: Mark Graham
I am happy to announce that my new edited book ‘Digital Economies at Global Margins‘ is now out! It was a pleasure working with ...
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We’re Hiring! Postdoc to focus on ‘fair work’ on digital work platforms in South Africa
3 August 2018
Author: Mark Graham
Cross post from the Fairwork Foundation blog. We are about to launch a new phase of the Fairwork project in South Africa with our colleague at ...
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New publication: Digital Connectivity and African Knowledge Economies
31 July 2018
Author: Mark Graham
The Geonet team has a new publication out that summarises some of our their research to-date. You can download the full paper here, or ...
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Three visions for how information and communication technologies alter positionalities at global economic margins
31 July 2018
Author: Mark Graham
I’m currently working on a book chapter about our ‘digital labour and gig economy‘ research. The chapter attempts to contextualise plans and projects to expand ...
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Ripensare la gig economy, per un lavoro più giusto
6 April 2018
Author: Mark Graham
Our Towards a Fairer Gig Economy Pamphlet is being translated into Italian in weekly instalments. Here’s the first one: https://www.openpolis.it/esercizi/verso-unaltra-gig-economy/ You can still get ...
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Rethinking the Geoweb and Big Data: Future Research Directions
4 April 2018
Author: Mark Graham
This short chapter is a reflection on future directions that research on the geoweb and big data could take. It is derived from a ...
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Help us shape the Fairwork Foundation: request for feedback
23 March 2018
Author: Mark Graham
In an earlier post, I described a new initiative that we recently started: The Fairwork Foundation. The goal of the Foundation is to certify ...
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The Future of Work in the Global South
8 March 2018
Author: Mark Graham
A network that I am part of – the The Future of Work in Developing Countries initiative – has just put out a ...
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Hacking code/space: Confounding the code of global capitalism
3 March 2018
Author: Mark Graham
I have a new paper out. The paper focuses on attempts by ‘airline hackers’ to subvert the code/spaces of international travel. Download a full ...
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Towards a Fairer Platform Economy: Introducing the Fairwork Foundation
16 February 2018
Author: Mark Graham
This month, I started work on a new project together with my new colleague Jamie Woodcock: The Fairwork Foundation. With generous funding from ...
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CFP – Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice
30 January 2018
Author: Mark Graham
Digital Representations of Place: Urban Overlays and Digital Justice Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Cardiff University, 28–31 August 2018 Session sponsor: ...
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The rise of the planetary labour market
30 January 2018
Author: Mark Graham
I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it ...
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The rise of the planetary labour market
30 January 2018
Author: Mark Graham
I have a short piece in New Statesman about the rise of what I am calling a planetary labour market. I wrote it ...
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Labour oversupply in the platform economy
22 December 2017
Author: Mark Graham
When I give talks about issues that arise in the context of a global market for digital work, one of the most important things ...
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Digital Control in Value Chains: Challenges of Connectivity for East African Firms
18 December 2017
Author: Mark Graham
I’m happy to report on a new co-authored paper that I have out. The piece asks what difference changing connectivity has made for East African ...
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Digital Control in Value Chains: Challenges of Connectivity for East African Firms
18 December 2017
Author: Mark Graham
I’m happy to report on a new co-authored paper that I have out. The piece asks what difference changing connectivity has made for ...
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The Right to the City: New Ebook from Verso
10 November 2017
Author: Mark Graham
‘Who is the city for?’ That is the question tackled in a new (free) publication by Verso Books. Joe Shaw and I have a ...
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‘ Our Digital Rights to the City’ – now in Italian
21 October 2017
Author: Mark Graham
Earlier this year, Joe Shaw and I published Our Digital Rights to the City – a short pamphlet with our Meatspace Press outlet. ...
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I co-wrote a song about Internet Geography: ‘ Use the Digital to Make the World you Want to See’
19 October 2017
Author: Mark Graham
I recently co-wrote a song about my research (and my team’s research) with the talented ‘science troubadour’, Jonny Berliner. The song, is essentially about ...
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There is no such thing as ‘offline’ or ‘online’
19 October 2017
Author: Mark Graham
This is a topic that both I have other have written about for a while, but wanted to write a quick update with links ...
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The shape of work to come
19 October 2017
Author: Mark Graham
Nature just published a published a long article about the ‘three ways that the digital revolution is reshaping workforces around the world.’ Amir Anwar ...
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The shape of work to come
19 October 2017
Author: Mark Graham
Nature just published a published a long article about the ‘three ways that the digital revolution is reshaping workforces around the world.’ Amir Anwar ...
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Mapping Fentanyl Trades on the Darknet
16 October 2017
Author: Mark Graham
My colleagues Joss Wright, Martin Dittus and I have been scraping the world’s largest darknet marketplaces over the last few months, as part of our darknet ...
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New paper – Hacking Code/Space: Confounding the Code of Global Capitalism
28 September 2017
Author: Mark Graham
I have a new paper out: Zook, M. and Graham, M. 2018. Hacking Code/Space: Confounding the Code of Global Capitalism. Transactions of the Institute of British ...
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Mapping internet users
10 July 2017
Author: Mark Graham
We have a new visualisation posted over on the Geonet blog depicting the geography of internet access. Head over there for the full post ...
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Towards a Fairer Gig Economy
10 July 2017
Author: Mark Graham
Our second pamphlet ‘Towards a Fairer Gig Economy’ is now out on Meatspace Press. We are pleased to offer it for free download (pdf, ...
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‘Digital Labour’ – our new publication
4 July 2017
Author: Mark Graham
New forms of digital work have emerged which, in theory, can be done from anywhere. Does this mean that geography no longer matters to ...
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Michel Wahome joins Geonet and talks digital entrepreneurship
4 July 2017
Author: Mark Graham
The ‘techie’ archetype is the mascot of our age. Generally imagined and depicted as a youth, most often male, wearing a casual sweat-shirt, and ...
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Minimum wages on online labour platforms
15 June 2017
Author: Mark Graham
A response to the ETUI and IG Metall’s request for comment. Download the PDF at: Wood, A., Graham, M., Anwar, M. A., Ramizo, G. ...
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Work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute: I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!
5 May 2017
Author: 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 ...
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Want to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute? I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!
5 May 2017
Author: 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 ...
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Want to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute? I’m hiring a Digital Geographer!
5 May 2017
Author: 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 ...
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Digital Hegemonies: The Localness of Search Engine Results
4 May 2017
Author: Mark Graham
I have a new paper out in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers with Andrea Ballatore and Shilad Sen. In it, we ask ...
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ICT and Development seminar series – 2017 webcasts 📽
29 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
Our ICT and Development seminar series gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on the influence of new communication technologies on development processes. We were ...
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ICT and Development seminar series – 2017 webcasts
29 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
Our ICT and Development seminar series gathers leading scholars and practitioners to reflect on the influence of new communication technologies on development processes. We ...
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Introducing a FairWork Foundation
24 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
A picture I took at a training programme for digital workers in Nairobi. The workers are being taught how to transcribe an audio file ...
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New report: ‘The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins’
21 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
This report is based on a three-year investigation conducted by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and the ...
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New report: ‘The Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work At the Global Margins’
21 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
This report is based on a three-year investigation conducted by researchers from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) at the University of Oxford and the ...
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New paper: Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods
21 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
As ever more policy-makers, governments and organisations turn to the gig economy and digital labour as an economic development strategy to bring jobs to ...
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New Report: Risks and Rewards of Online Gig Work at the Global Margins
20 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
The cartogram depicts countries as circles sized according to dollar inflow during March 2013 on a major online labour platform. The shading of the ...
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What Impact is the Gig Economy Having on Development and Worker Livelihoods?
20 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
There are imbalances in the relationship between supply and demand of digital work, with the vast majority of buyers located in high-income countries (pictured). ...
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Mapping The Global Knowledge Economy
16 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
The geography of published and codified knowledge has always had stark core-periphery patterns. Just look at the below map of where academic articles are ...
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Birth of ENDL, the European Network on Digital Labour
9 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
From all over Europe, researchers in the emergent field of digital labour assembled in Paris for the launch event of ENDL, the European Network ...
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Digitally Augmented Geographies – New Publication
2 March 2017
Author: 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 ...
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Digitally Augmented Geographies – New Publication
2 March 2017
Author: 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 ...
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Digital Divides in the United Kingdom
1 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
If you’ve ever wondered what local geographies of internet access look like in the UK, I have a new paper out with Grant Blank ...
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Digital Divides of Internet Access in the United Kingdom
1 March 2017
Author: Mark Graham
If you’ve ever wondered what local geographies of internet access look like in the UK, I have a new paper out with Grant Blank and ...
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Join our London Digital Labour Meetup
26 February 2017
Author: Mark Graham
If you are interested in scholarship or activism on the topic of digital labour and the future of work, then consider joining our regular ...
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An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content, Control, and the Urbanization of Information – New Paper
16 February 2017
Author: Mark Graham
After much work, many discussions, a lot of writing and rewriting, and many many presentations around the world, Joe Shaw and I have our ...
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Our Digital Rights to the City || download/order
11 February 2017
Author: Mark Graham
The pamphlet ‘Our Digital Rights to the City’ – put together by Joe Shaw and Mark Graham – is now out on Meatspace Press. ...
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An Informational Right to the City? Code, Content, Control, and the Urbanization of Information – New Paper
10 February 2017
Author: Mark Graham
After much work, many discussions, a lot of writing and rewriting, and many many presentations around the world, Joe Shaw and I have our ...
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New Big Data and Development Fellowship: Apply to work with our Data Scientist
10 February 2017
Author: Mark Graham
I am happy to report that the Big Data and Human Development Incubator has just recruited a data scientist to work with the network ...
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An ‘Informational Right to the City’? – Piece in New Internationalist
9 February 2017
Author: Mark Graham
Together with Joe Shaw, I have written a short article for New Internationalist titled: An ‘Informational Right to the City’? As our cities become increasingly ...
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New paper: Our Digital Rights to the City
8 February 2017
Author: Mark Graham
The pamphlet ‘Our Digital Rights to the City’ is now out on Meatspace Press. We are pleased to offer it for free download (epub, ...
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The Geography of Twitter
3 February 2017
Author: Mark Graham
A few months ago, Antonello Romano and I published some maps of Twitter. Those maps showed which parts of the world produced more content than ...
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Digital \ Human \ Labour – our schedule at the AAG
25 January 2017
Author: Mark Graham
I have co-organised a series of session tracks for the AAG meeting titled ‘Digital Human Labour’. My great co-organisers (listed below) and I received ...
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Launching the 2017 ICT4D Seminar Series
20 January 2017
Author: Mark Graham
You can now sign up for the 2017 ICT4D seminar series at the Oxford Internet Institute. I’ve put this year’s list together with my ...
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We’re hiring! Data Scientist to study the geography of the darknet
14 January 2017
Author: Mark Graham
Grade 7: Salary £31,076 – £38,183 p.a. We are looking for a full-time Researcher to work with Professor Mark Graham and Dr Joss Wright ...
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Google and its responsibility for search results
20 December 2016
Author: Mark Graham
BBC News has just published a piece in which they tackle the fact that Google has been prominently displaying Holocaust denial content. Shockingly, they ...
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Let’s make platform capitalism more accountable
20 December 2016
Author: Mark Graham
What do Google, Uber, and Facebook have in common? You might think that the answer is that they are all technology companies. But actually ...
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Are mobile phones transforming Africa?
14 December 2016
Author: Mark Graham
The latest version of the Economist contains a boldly-titled piece: ‘Mobile phones are transforming Africa‘. The general sense in the piece is that, where ...
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Are mobile phones transforming Africa?
14 December 2016
Author: Mark Graham
The latest version of the Economist contains a boldly-titled piece: ‘Mobile phones are transforming Africa‘. The general sense in the piece is that, where ...
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On how Google frames, shapes and distorts how we see the world
13 December 2016
Author: Mark Graham
Carole Cadwalladr has written an excellent set of articles for the Observer on how Google ‘frames, shapes and distorts how we see the world’. ...
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Mapping Twitter
3 December 2016
Author: Mark Graham
I’ve been working with Antonello Romano to update some of our older research into the geography of Twitter. Below you can see some maps ...
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Shaping the new world of work
21 November 2016
Author: Mark Graham
The European Trade Union Institute has just put together a 40-page report that comes out of their conference on ‘Shaping the new world of ...
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Work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute: we’re hiring a Data Scientist / Data Hacker
18 November 2016
Author: Mark Graham
Data Scientist/Data Hacker Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford Grade 7: £31,076 – £38,183 p.a. The Oxford Internet Institute is a leading centre ...
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Join our team: we’re hiring a Data Scientist / Data Hacker
10 November 2016
Author: Mark Graham
Data Scientist/Data Hacker Oxford Internet Institute, 1 St Giles, Oxford Grade 7: £31,076 – £38,183 p.a. The Oxford Internet Institute is a leading centre ...
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Webcasts for the Symposium on Big Data and Development
28 October 2016
Author: Mark Graham
The Symposium on Big Data and Development that we hosted in Oxford last month was a great success. There were some excellent papers there, and ...
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Philip Leverhulme Award: Internet Geographies
25 October 2016
Author: Mark Graham
I am extremely happy to report the news that I have been awarded one of the 2016 Philip Leverhulme prizes! I hope to use ...
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The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development
20 October 2016
Author: Mark Graham
My colleagues Nicolas Friederici, Sanna Ojanperä, and I have recently finished a paper in which we analyse ‘Grand Visions’ of how Internet connectivity affects development in ...
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“Perish or Globalize:” Network Integration and the Reproduction and Replacement of Weaving Traditions in the Thai Silk Industry
13 October 2016
Author: Mark Graham
The practice of handmade silk weaving has disappeared from much of the world, but continues to be practiced by thousands of people in Northeastern ...
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The geography of Wikipedia edits
28 September 2016
Author: 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 ...
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Why the digital gig economy needs co-ops and unions
27 September 2016
Author: Mark Graham
We live in a world in which it is increasingly possible to use online labour markets to outsource work directly to any corner of ...
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Symposium on Big Data and Human Development – closing remarks
19 September 2016
Author: Mark Graham
It has been an extremely rewarding two days at the Symposium on Big Data and Human Development that Eduardo Lopez and I organised. We ...
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Digital\Human\Labour **Call for papers at the 2017 AAG meeting**
6 September 2016
Author: Mark Graham
Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. April 5-9, 2017, Boston, MA The proposed Digital Geographies Working Group of the RGS/IBG and ...
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Symposium on Big Data and Human Development | Sept 15-16 2016 | Final Programme
31 August 2016
Author: Mark Graham
This workshop aims to move forward the debate about the ways in which big data is used, can be used, and should be used ...
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Pokémon Go and the Need to Critically Consider Augmented Realities
13 July 2016
Author: 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 ...
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Interview from ‘Shaping the New World of Work’ conference
5 July 2016
Author: Mark Graham
A short video interview that I did about digital labour markets at the ETUI conference on ‘Shaping the New World of Work’.
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Symposium on Big Data and Human Development
10 June 2016
Author: Mark Graham
We are happy to announce a two-day symposium (Sept 15-16) that we are running in Oxford on the topic of big data and human ...
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Jobs in Big Data and Development
2 June 2016
Author: Mark Graham
The Alan Turing Institute is now hiring 3-year fellows in social data science and the digital humanities. One of the specific areas that they ...
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Digital work marketplaces impose a new balance of power
27 May 2016
Author: Mark Graham
Factories can’t run, farms can’t produce, mines can’t be mined, supermarkets can’t be stocked, and call centres can’t accept calls if workers don’t go ...
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New publication – Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research
17 May 2016
Author: Mark Graham
This chapter outlines how one might utilize the massive amounts of web-based, geographically-referenced digital social data for geographical research. Because much of these data ...
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Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web.
12 May 2016
Author: Mark Graham
In order to understand how the city’s contested political contexts are embedded into its digital layers, we traced how the city is represented on ...
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Organising in the “digital wild west”: Can strategic bottlenecks help prevent a race to the bottom for online workers?
11 May 2016
Author: Mark Graham
For decades, large firms have been outsourcing and offshoring jobs. Work flowed from developed economies to developing ones, where wages were lower and regulations ...
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Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks (new paper)
13 April 2016
Author: Mark Graham
Chris Foster and I have a new publication that will be coming out in Global Networks: Foster, C. and Graham, M. 2016. Reconsidering the ...
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Global Production Networks, Information and Communication Technology, Internet, Network Society, Sub-Saharan Africa
13 April 2016
Author: Mark Graham
Chris Foster and I have a new publication that will be coming out in Global Networks: Foster, C. and Graham, M. 2016. Reconsidering the ...
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Spatial discourses around Internet access in the developing world (new paper)
1 April 2016
Author: Mark Graham
The ways in which we envision and talk about the internet matter. This is especially the case in the context of plans and projects ...
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Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information
30 March 2016
Author: Mark Graham
I was asked by my colleague and friend Oliver Belcher to act as a discussant in a session that he put together at the ...
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‘Digital Transformations of Work’ 🎬 Conference Webcasts 🎬
23 March 2016
Author: Mark Graham
The Digital Transformations of Work Conference that Alex Wood and I organised brought together a room full of brilliant and passionate speakers and 80 guests ...
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Power, politics and digital development – call for papers DSA2016
23 March 2016
Author: Mark Graham
Consider submitting a paper to our panel at the Development Studies Association conference in Oxford (Sept 12-14). Power, politics and digital development Convenors Richard ...
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The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations (now in print)
22 March 2016
Author: Mark Graham
I’m happy to announce a new paper to come out of our previous project studying Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa. The project ...
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Remembering Doreen Massey
14 March 2016
Author: Mark Graham
I am very sad to hear about the passing of Doreen Massey. No other scholar influenced my thinking and my work as much as she ...
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Digital Transformations of Work [Conference, March 10 2016]
29 January 2016
Author: Mark Graham
As part of the Green Templeton College Future of Work Programme we are bringing together leading researchers to consider the ways in which digitalisation ...
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‘big data’ and development seminar series
28 January 2016
Author: Mark Graham
All are invited to our new ‘big data’ and development seminar series. The schedule for the coming term is, as follows: 26 January 2016: “Big ...
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Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (new publication)
19 January 2016
Author: Mark Graham
A new publication of ours in now out in The African Technopolitan. Graham, M., and Foster, C. 2016. Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa, The ...
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Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector (new publication)
19 January 2016
Author: Mark Graham
A new publication of ours in now out in The African Technopolitan. Graham, M., Mann, L., Friederici, N. and Waema, T. 2016. Growing the Kenyan Business ...
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Introducing Mohammad Amir Anwar to the Geonet project
13 January 2016
Author: Mark Graham
We are lucky to have Mohammad Amir Anwar joining our team in the Geonet project! Amir is a Human Geographer by training, and his ...
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New publication: Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection’
22 December 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Ralph Straumann and I have a new short publication out: Straumann, R. K., Graham, M. 2016. Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection.’ ...
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Big data and development mailing list
4 December 2015
Author: Mark Graham
We have started a mailing list for anyone wanting to stay in touch about the ‘big data and development’ initiative, and engage in conversation ...
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The move from a human-readable to a machine-readable web
1 December 2015
Author: 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 ...
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We’re hiring: Research Assistant to work on “Big Data and Human Development”
30 November 2015
Author: Mark Graham
We are looking for a part-time Research Assistant to work on a funded project, “Big Data and Human Development”. The research will focus on ...
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Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”
10 November 2015
Author: 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 ...
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Introducing Alex Wood to the Microwork and Virtual Production Networks project
6 November 2015
Author: Mark Graham
We are lucky to have Alex Wood joining our team in the Microwork and Virtual Production Networks project! Alex is a sociologist of work and employment, ...
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“E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture
28 October 2015
Author: 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 ...
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The ‘Big Data and Human Development’ incubator
27 October 2015
Author: Mark Graham
I’m happy to announce the launch of an exciting and important new initiative that I am co-directing with my colleagues Iginio Gagliardone and Proochista Ariana: the Big ...
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The new Big Data and Human Development research network
26 October 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Data are now almost ubiquitous. Sensors and software are digitising and storing all manner of social, economic, political and environmental patterns and processes. As ...
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‘Society and the Internet’ (our book is on sale)
13 October 2015
Author: Mark Graham
The book that Bill Dutton and I edited and published last year – Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are ...
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Video of ‘Digital Economies’ Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography
8 October 2015
Author: Mark Graham
I recently had the opportunity to give a plenary talk at the Global Conference on Economic Geography. The talk was part of a broader session ...
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Digital Economies: Video of Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography
8 October 2015
Author: Mark Graham
I recently had the opportunity to give a plenary talk at the Global Conference on Economic Geography. The talk was part of a broader session ...
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3D printed internet geographies
30 September 2015
Author: Mark Graham
The Datasthesia team recently turned one of our digital maps into a material printed object. They also kindly shared their files so that we ...
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New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information
29 September 2015
Author: 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 ...
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Here’s why visions of ubiquitous connectivity aren’t going to be realised any time soon
28 September 2015
Author: Mark Graham
The last few months have seen a wealth of stories about visions to connect the world. Facebook, Google, large international organisations, states, and even ...
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Our Wikipedia Research in the News
27 September 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Our research into biases in voice and power in Wikipedia has recently been published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. What ...
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The geography of academic knowledge
22 September 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Our team recently had the opportunity of working with some submission data from SAGE journals. Amongst other things, the data tell us where authors of ...
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Recruiting: Research Assistant to work with us on a new project – “Big Data and Human Development”
16 September 2015
Author: Mark Graham
We are looking for a part-time Research Assistant to work on a funded project, “Big Data and Human Development”. The research will focus on ...
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“Virtual products aren’t built with virtual work”: a comment piece about concerns about digital labour for development
15 September 2015
Author: Mark Graham
SciDevNet has just published some of my preliminary thoughts about digital labour in development. The argument being that just because digital work is international, ...
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“Virtual products aren’t built with virtual work”: new comment piece about concerns about digital labour for development
15 September 2015
Author: Mark Graham
SciDevNet has just published some of my preliminary thoughts about digital labour in development. The argument being that just because digital work is ...
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New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia
7 September 2015
Author: 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 ...
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New job at the Oxford Internet Institute: ‘Researcher in Development and Digital Labour’
4 September 2015
Author: Mark Graham
We are now hiring a researcher to work with us to investigate low-wage digital work being carried out in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. ...
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“Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps
17 August 2015
Author: 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 ...
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Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps
17 August 2015
Author: 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, ...
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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: 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 ...
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互联网地理:数据阴影和数字分工
7 August 2015
Author: 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 ...
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Walls and the West Bank
1 August 2015
Author: Mark Graham
I have just returned from the 7th International Conference on Critical Geography in Ramallah in the West Bank. The decision to hold the conference ...
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New job working with the Geonet team at the Oxford Internet Institute: ‘Researcher in ICTs, Geography and Development’
22 July 2015
Author: Mark Graham
We are now hiring a researcher to work with us to investigate low-wage digital work being carried out in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Oxford Internet ...
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New job working with us at the Oxford Internet Institute: ‘Researcher in ICTs, Geography and Development’
22 July 2015
Author: Mark Graham
We are now hiring a researcher to work with us to investigate low-wage digital work being carried out in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Oxford Internet ...
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Measuring the Impacts of Connectivity
18 June 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Huge resources are invested into plans and projects that are designed to connect some of the billions of people who still lack any sort of ...
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new publication: Wikipedia Arabe et la Construction Collective du Savoir
10 June 2015
Author: 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 ...
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Uneven Geographies of Digital Wages
9 June 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Dollar Inflow and Median Wage by Country Our previous post contained a few maps that shed light on the geographies of online work. But ...
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“The digital language divide” – our research featured in The Guardian
29 May 2015
Author: 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 ...
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The Work We Want
26 May 2015
Author: Mark Graham
The ‘Work We Want’ project has just put together a series of short videos about digital labour: encouraging us to think about not just likely ...
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New Video – ‘Code, Content, and Control: Global Geographies of Digital Participation and Representation’
11 May 2015
Author: 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, ...
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New paper: “The Domestic Turn: Business Processing Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations”
10 May 2015
Author: Mark Graham
I’m happy to announce a new paper to come out of our previous project studying Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa. The project ...
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Vis-à-Wik: a visual analytics tool for Wikipedia analysis
27 April 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Further to a short paper I wrote with Arzu, Kathryn, Scott, and Ralph (see Collaborative Visualizations for Wikipedia Critique and Activism), I started working on Vis-à-Wik, a simple online ...
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The problem with “cyberspace”
16 April 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Source: Robert Thompson, The Guardian, Online section, 29 March 2001, page 4. In Dodge (2008: 106) Why should we be careful when we use the ...
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Mapping the geographies of digital work
13 April 2015
Author: Mark Graham
With the rise of online work platforms like Odesk, Elance, and Freelancer, a lot of work can, in theory, be done from anywhere on ...
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Is oDesk a global marketplace? Visualizing the geographies of digital work
13 April 2015
Author: Mark Graham
With the rise of online work platforms like Odesk, Elance, and Freelancer, a lot of work can, in theory, be done from anywhere on ...
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New publication – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers
31 March 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Spatial distribution of placenames in the GeoNames gazetteer Spatial distibution of placenames in GeoNames included in the dataset of populated places with more than ...
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New paper – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers
31 March 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Spatial distribution of placenames in the GeoNames gazetteer Spatial distibution of placenames in GeoNames included in the dataset of populated places with more than ...
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Africa’s Information Revolution
6 March 2015
Author: Mark Graham
Padraig Carmody was recently at the OII to give a lecture as part of our ICT and Development seminar series. You can watch ...
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The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa
25 February 2015
Author: Mark Graham
I’m happy to report the release of a new report that comes our of a multi-year project to student the Internet and the Business ...
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New paper: “Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information”
12 February 2015
Author: 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 ...
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Interview on the Guardian’s Tech Weekly about the Power of Digital Maps
11 February 2015
Author: 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 ...
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New paper published: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector’
22 January 2015
Author: Mark Graham
I am very happy to announce a new paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector.’ A pre-print is available below. ...
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New paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector’
22 January 2015
Author: Mark Graham
I am very happy to announce a new paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector.’ A pre-print is available below. ...
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Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus
21 January 2015
Author: 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, ...
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Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: geographic networks of edits
15 January 2015
Author: 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 ...
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Free sample chapters available from our new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development’
12 January 2015
Author: Mark Graham
The publisher has kindly allowed us to freely share three chapters of our new book (that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca Twyman): ...
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Sample chapters available from new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development’
12 January 2015
Author: Mark Graham
The publisher has kindly allowed us to freely share three chapters of our new book (that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca ...
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Can we count the sum of all human knowledge?
18 December 2014
Author: Mark Graham
I was recently at Wikimedia’s HQ in San Francisco to give a short talk about some of the geographic imbalances in Wikipedia. I was ...
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Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content
16 December 2014
Author: 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 ...
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Explaining locally-contributed content in Wikipedia about Sub-Saharan Africa
12 December 2014
Author: 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 ...
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New book: Research and Fieldwork in Development
10 December 2014
Author: Mark Graham
I’m delighted to announce the release of a new book that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca Twyman: ‘Research and Fieldwork ...
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New book drawing on fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa
10 December 2014
Author: Mark Graham
I’m delighted to announce the release of a new book that I co-wrote with colleagues Dan Hammett and Chasca Twyman: ‘Research and Fieldwork in ...
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Visualising the locality of participation and voice on Wikipedia
4 December 2014
Author: 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 ...
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Reflections on the ITU’s World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium
25 November 2014
Author: Mark Graham
A very short update from the ITU’s World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium in Tbilisi Georgia that I just attended. One strong theme on the first ...
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Video – “Semantic cities: Coded geopolitics and rise of the semantic web”
21 November 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Heather Ford and I recently had the opportunity to visit some of the Programmable City group in Maynooth, Ireland as part of their ‘Code ...
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New paper published: ‘Where in the World Are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter’
19 November 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Scott Hale, Devin Gaffney, and I have a paper out in The Professional Geographer. Graham, M., Hale, S., and Gaffney, D. 2014. Where in the World ...
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Will broadband be East Africa’s 21st century railway to the world?
17 November 2014
Author: Mark Graham
I have published a short piece The Conversation that summarises some work that I carried out with two colleagues (Casper Andersen and Laura Mann) ...
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Interview about the power of digital maps
10 November 2014
Author: 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 ...
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Mapping virtual game geographies
7 November 2014
Author: Mark Graham
To build on Vili’s earlier post about the geographies of virtual gold farming, I want to share a bit of our spatial analysis (conducted with ...
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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: 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 ...
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Ashby Prize awarded to our paper “Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies”
6 November 2014
Author: 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 ...
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Investigating virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia
3 November 2014
Author: Mark Graham
What effects will the emergence of new and transformative ‘virtual’ economic activities and work (such as ‘microwork’ and ‘game labour’) have on social and ...
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contrasting visions of connectivity between the colonial and contemporary moments
2 November 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Technologies of connectivity have changed beyond recognition in the last century. But, how have our imaginations of the effects of those technologies of connectivity ...
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Historical visions of connectivity
2 November 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Technologies of connectivity have changed beyond recognition in the last century. But, how have our imaginations of the effects of those technologies of connectivity ...
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New publication: Geographies of Connectivity in East Africa: Trains, Telecommunications, and Technological Teleologies
28 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
source: Mombasa-Victoria (Uganda) Railway and Busoga Railway, The Director of Surveys, Nairobi Government Printers, B.E.A (1913) I’m very happy to announce that a paper ...
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Fieldwork in our Development and Digital Labour Project
24 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
The photographs above come from a conference for online freelancers that Isis, Vili, and I attended in Manila a few days ago. The conference ...
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Digital Labour and Development
22 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
The picture above was taken in Pasig City in the Philippines. The poster advertising free wifi is symbolic of the changing connectivities of a country in which more than ...
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The Geographically Uneven Coverage of Wikipedia
21 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
This map highlights the fact that a majority of content produced in Wikipedia is about a relatively small part of our planet. This finding ...
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Introducing GEONET: studying Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economies
14 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
I’m happy to announce the launch of the new GEONET project: studying ‘Changing Connectivities and the Potentials of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Knowledge Economy.’ This five-year ...
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A global division of microwork
8 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
The first image below shows that a large portion of the world’s microwork carried out through ODesk is carried out in Asia: particular in ...
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A World’s Panorama
5 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Building on our map of content in Flickr, this graphic tells a very similar story. Panoramio is smaller than Flickr, with about a tenth ...
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Inclusion in the Network Society workshop
3 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Chris Foster and I have just returned from the inspiring meeting on ‘Inclusion in the Network Society’ that was put together by IT for Change in ...
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Mapping the global submarine fibre-optic cable network
2 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Submarine telecommunications have come a long way since 1842, when Samuel Morse sent the first submarine telegraph transmission under the waters of New York ...
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Mapping the economic geographies of knowledge-production and digital participation from Sub-Saharan Africa
1 October 2014
Author: Mark Graham
The first stage of the project aims to broadly understand the diversity of new practices in Sub Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy. We define the ...
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Our paper at the Network Inclusion Roundtable: Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
30 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Chris Foster and I have had the opportunity to participate in the Network Inclusion Roundtable: organised by IT For Change in Bangalore. Our short ...
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Gender and Social Networks
27 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Findings On the whole there isn’t a large disparity between men and women on the social networks represented here. The data indicate a total ...
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The World Through the Eyes of a Search Algorithm
27 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Data Many big technology companies have developed algorithms for providing query suggestions based on input to search fields and/or immediate feedback to users (see ...
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Geographic Knowledge in Freebase
21 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Findings Geographic content in Freebase is largely clustered in certain regions of the world. The United States accounts for over 45% of the overall ...
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World-wide News Web
15 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Findings The map restates the United States’ position as a core geographical focal point of the collection. There are seven location pairs that are ...
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Geographic intersections of languages in Wikipedia
12 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Description This graph illustrate the percentage of geo-referenced articles in the twenty editions of Wikipedia containing the larges number of geo-referenced articles. Data The ...
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Geographic coverage of Wikivoyage
10 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Findings The visualisation shows us that, in all four languages, extensive coverage exists of countries in which those languages are spoken. Wikivoyage — one ...
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What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?
8 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
How do we explain the significant inequalities in the geography of user-generated information? Mark Graham, PI of a project Mapping and measuring local knowledge ...
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Broadband affordability
7 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Findings This visualization speaks to one of the core themes of the global digital divide: the relative cost of being connected to the Internet. ...
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Geographies of Google Search
5 September 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Data The data were collected through the Google Custom Search API. We searched for each country name in English and up to 23 other ...
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What is stopping greater representation of the MENA region?
6 August 2014
Author: Mark Graham
There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are ...
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AAG 2015 CFP – From Online Sweat Shops to Silicon Savannahs: Geographies of Production in Digital Economies of Low-Income Countries
28 July 2014
Author: Mark Graham
From Online Sweat Shops to Silicon Savannahs: Geographies of Production in Digital Economies of Low-Income Countries AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25, ...
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Final Project Report: Promises of Fibre-Optic Broadband in the Kenyan Tourism and Tea Sectors
27 July 2014
Author: Mark Graham
My colleagues Professor Timothy Waema and Charles Katua at the University of Nairobi have recently finished a report describing and summarising some of their ...
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How well represented is the MENA region in Wikipedia?
22 July 2014
Author: Mark Graham
There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are ...
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Call for Papers – Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Margins
18 July 2014
Author: Mark Graham
Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Margins AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25, 2015 (sponsored by the Development Geography Research Group) ...
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The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the Arab World
14 July 2014
Author: Mark Graham
There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are ...
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Introducing the Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality group
20 June 2014
Author: Mark Graham
This website has been built to serve as a home for the Connectivity, Inclusiveness, and Inequality (CII) group based at the Oxford Internet Institute. ...
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Who represents the Arab world online?
1 October 2013
Author: Mark Graham
There are obvious gaps in access to the Internet, particularly the participation gap between those who have their say, and those whose voices are ...
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The Geography of #StandWithWendy Tweets
28 June 2013
Author: Mark Graham
The filibuster by Texas State Senator Wendy Davis on June 25th to block a new piece of legislation that would have resulted in many more ...
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Mapping the uneven geographies of information worldwide
11 June 2013
Author: Mark Graham
The Internet is argued to enable democratisation of information production, but we know remarkably little about contemporary geographies of knowledge, and how these information ...
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Premier League teams on Twitter (or why Liverpool wins the league and the Queen might support West Ham)
11 January 2013
Author: Mark Graham
Have you ever wondered where Premier League football teams draw most of their support from? Or what the geography of fandom is? We have ...
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Digital Data Trails of the UK Floods
28 November 2012
Author: Mark Graham
What do data scraped from the Internet tell us about a range of social, economic, political, and even environmental processes and practices? As ever ...
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Church or Beer? Americans on Twitter
4 July 2012
Author: Mark Graham
In honor of the anniversary when American colonists kicked out the oppressive British (apologies to Mark and other oppressive Brits) today is the birthday ...
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Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies: Exploring the Geo-linguistic Contours of the Web
26 March 2012
Author: Mark Graham
Mark and Matt have just had a paper accepted to Environment and Planning A (Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies: Exploring the Geo-linguistic Contours of ...
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Mapping Wikipedia Article Quality in North America
13 December 2011
Author: Mark Graham
The maps of Wikipedia previously posted on the blog offer useful insights into the geographies of one of the world’s largest platforms for user-generated ...
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The tea party, hipsters, and the methodological limitations of Internet mapping.
16 November 2011
Author: Mark Graham
America traditionally likes to party. Well, at least engage in the throwing tea off ships into harbors and annoy-the-English kind of party. And let’s ...
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Mapping Wikipedia Globally
14 November 2011
Author: Mark Graham
Wikipedia is an incredibly impressive coming-together of human labour on a scale that the world rarely sees. Over the last few years, we’ve also ...
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All the tea in China
19 September 2011
Author: Mark Graham
As part of our ongoing research into the online geographies of mind-altering substances, we present in this post an analysis of caffeinated beverages in ...
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Data Shadows of an Underground Economy
30 August 2011
Author: Mark Graham
Following on from our “Price of Weed” maps featured in the September issue of Wired, we would like to make available the draft report ...
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Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse, Part II: Brains or Salads?
23 June 2011
Author: Mark Graham
The following is pulled from the cutting room floor of our upcoming chapter in the edited collection Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in ...
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Preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse, Part I: Zombies or Old People?
20 June 2011
Author: Mark Graham
The following is pulled from the cutting room floor of our upcoming chapter in the edited collection Zombies in the Academy: Living Death in ...
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Distribution of References to Food in Arabic and Hebrew
13 June 2011
Author: Mark Graham
Continuing our look at the distribution of language in the geoweb, the map below shows the pattern of references to the word food in ...
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Geography of Beer by Language
9 June 2011
Author: Mark Graham
With the summer months upon us, the FloatingSheep Collective is busy with travel and paper-writing and as a result, we’ve not been posting as ...
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What’s up with Montana? Comparing Google and Wikipedia in the US
4 April 2011
Author: Mark Graham
As mentioned in an earlier post we’re starting to have some fun with cartogram representations of geoweb data. For those who have forgotten, cartograms ...
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Heatmap of Wikipedia articles: the concentrated geographies of history
22 March 2011
Author: Mark Graham
Gareth Lloyd has put together a brilliant visualisation of all geotagged Wikipedia articles. Even more fascinating is this video, showing the data mapped out ...
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A Gravity Sink in Wyoming? A Cartogram of Google Placemarks in the U.S.
15 March 2011
Author: Mark Graham
One of the visualization techniques that we’re beginning to work with are cartograms (thanks to Monica) which distort the size of an area based ...
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The Ephemerality of Search
18 February 2011
Author: Mark Graham
Google announced yesterday that search was becoming more social. We won’t go into the technical details in this post (the NYT provides a useful ...
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Autocomplete Part I: Mapping the World of Autocomplete
9 February 2011
Author: Mark Graham
Building on the recent fascination with the United States of Autocomplete map, we thought we’d expand its premise to look at the entire world. ...
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Wikipedia Demographics
3 February 2011
Author: Mark Graham
We’ve written a fair amount about the geographic and linguistic clusters of Wikipedia authors but were reminded today (via New York Times “Room for ...
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Problem Points on new UK Police Maps
1 February 2011
Author: Mark Graham
Today’s launch of police.uk by the Home Office provides the highest resolution mapping of crime data available in the UK to date. The website ...
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Map of per-capita mobile phone subscriptions
10 January 2011
Author: Mark Graham
Using World Bank and ITU data we’ve drawn up the below map of mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people. You’ll see that unlike maps ...
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Mapping the Tea Party Movement Online
22 October 2010
Author: Mark Graham
Since Sarah Palin was recently talking about our blog on cable news shows, we decided it was only fair to map out her so-called ...
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Mapping Flickr
26 July 2010
Author: Mark Graham
Today’s map is a visualisation of all 34 million geotagged Flickr images. The data were kindly collected by Eric Fischer and then aggregated to ...
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Wikipedia and Internet Use
5 July 2010
Author: Mark Graham
The following map displays the total number of Wikipedia articles normalised by the number of internet users at the country level. The countries with ...
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Sometimes sleeping on the job should be paid too
23 March 2021 FT
Is it possible to be "at work" - and so legally owed the minimum wage - while you are asleep in bed?
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Uber Says Its UK Drivers Are ‘Workers,’ but Not Employees
17 March 2021 Wired
FOR YEARS, UBER has deployed lobbyists to world capitals to protect its business model. Its lawyers have argued that Uber drivers are independent contractors, using a service that connects them with people who need rides.
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Uber could give gig workers a better deal but it’s lobbying EU to lower standards, says Fairwork
17 February 2021 Yahoo!
Uber has been accused of downplaying its influence over working conditions in the gig economy after the ride-hailing giant published a white paper earlier this week in which it lobbied for a 'Prop 22' style deregulation of Europe's labor laws.
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How algorithms keep workers in the dark
28 August 2020 BBC News
Despite companies’ constantly increasing reliance on data-churning tech, the way most algorithms work remains a mystery to many workers – which creates a power imbalance on the job.
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How is the platform economy responding to COVID-19?
14 May 2020 Open Democracy
Although there is little evidence of ‘disaster capitalism’, ‘compassionate capitalism’ has been in rather short supply.
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If platforms do not protect gig workers, who will?
23 April 2020 New Internationalist
Coronavirus is showing that precarity and dangerous working conditions are a choice companies have been making for workers, not a necessary payoff for flexibility and independence, say Fairwork researchers.
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From Social Distancing to Social Solidarity: Gig economy and the Covid-19
27 March 2020 OECD Development Matters
The risks faced by members of the gig economy during the Covid-19 outbreak.
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The politics of Covid-19: Gig work in the coronavirus crisis
26 March 2020 red pepper
How long are we willing to turn a blind eye to the vulnerabilities of essential workers on the bottom of the employment hierarchy, asks the Fairwork Foundation.
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The Untenable Luxury of Self-isolation
18 March 2020 New Internationalist
A coalition of gig economy researchers at Fairwork explain how gig workers are being hit hardest by COVID-19.
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PAGO POR CLIQUE
3 February 2020 UOL
"O trabalho dignifica, valoriza e enobrece o homem." Na contramão desse ditado, a tecnologia e a automação sempre tiveram propostas mais lenientes: quando os robôs puderem nos dar uma forcinha, finalmente poderemos trabalhar menos.
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Como construir uma “gig economy” mais justa em quatro etapas
25 November 2019 Politike
Você provavelmente já ouviu pelo menos duas coisas sobre a “gig economy”, o fenômeno da oferta de trabalhos temporários por grandes empresas de tecnologia. Primeiro, ela é grande.
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Mark Graham, de Oxford Internet Institute: “Los trabajadores de plataformas, las plataformas y la economía gig están definidos por la vulnerabilidad de los trabajadores”
21 November 2019 The Economist
Este académico británico está en una cruzada por humanizar la denominada gig economy. Para ello, investiga el impacto de las emergentes formas de trabajo digital en países de todo el globo. Es uno de los creadores de Fairwork, fundación que promueve el tr
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How to build a fairer gig economy in 4 steps
1 November 2019 World Economic Forum
First, that it’s big. In 2019, roughly one-in-10 workers in the UK earns a living in the gig economy.
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The ghost work powering tech magic
2 September 2019 BBC News
Armies of workers help power the technological wizardry that is reshaping our lives – but they are invisible and their jobs are precarious.
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One More Way to Die: Delivering Food in Cape Town’s Gig Economy
24 August 2019 New York Times
CAPE TOWN — He had delivered his last food order for the evening and was driving home from Pinelands, a suburb in Cape Town, when an oncoming car swung in front of him, knocking him off his motorbike.
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What Would Happen If the Whole Internet Just Shut Down All of a Sudden?
19 August 2019 Gizmodo
A world in which the internet suddenly stops: surely the TV show’s already in development.
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How internet that’s beamed from space could create new jobs
19 August 2019 BBC.com
Four billion people lack internet access. Satellite internet could change that. But will the jobs created be good ones?
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A global gig economy
2 August 2019 BBC Business Daily
Are freelancing platforms threatening worker's rights?
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OII expert Mark Graham talks to Deuschlandfunk
11 June 2019 Deuschlandfunk
The OII's Mark Graham, talks to Deuschlandfunk about the impact of digitisation on cities.
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El futuro del trabajo “La automatización promueve la inequidad”
27 May 2019 El Pais
The OII's Mark Graham speaks to El Pais
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Plattformökonomie braucht Mindeststandards
15 April 2019 Tagesspiegel
Die globale Plattformökonomie zeige die begrenzte Macht nationaler Regulierung auf, erklärt Mark Graham, Professor am Oxford Internet Institute. Ohne Mindeststandards werden Plattformarbeiter weiterhin ausgebeutet.
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Why the Heck Is a Spice Girl in the Search Results for James Comey?
20 February 2019 Slate
He’s a fired former FBI director. She’s a Spice Girl and recently departed judge of America’s Got Talent. I’m not sure even Kevin Bacon could connect James Comey and Mel B. So why does Google think they have something in common?
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How to manage the gig economy’s growing global jobs market
30 October 2018 Financial Times
Platforms focus on remote service sector work — think of eBay for human labour.
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To reduce inequality, Wikipedia needs to start paying editors
11 September 2018 Wired
The online encyclopedia is a lopsided representation of the world. Should it break its non-profit taboo?
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Tyranny of the Mechanical Turk: The rise and rise of digital platform work
18 June 2018 Red Pepper
Menial digital labour is being outsourced to the four corners of the globe. Robbie Warin reports that exploitation flourishes whilst global companies file millions in profit.
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The UK universities strike is the frontline of the gig economy fight
12 March 2018 Wired
The future of work looks grim unless workers band together to rescue it
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Fentanyl Adds Deadly Kick to Opioid Woes in Britain
4 February 2018 The New York Times
Britain accounts for the largest number of fentanyl sales on the limited access darknet in Europe, with 1,000 trades being made in recent months, research by the Oxford Internet Institute found.
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The rise of the planetary labour market
29 January 2018 The New Statesman
Professor Mark Graham writes an op-ed for The New Statesman.
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UK accounts for largest share of darknet fentanyl sales in Europe
16 October 2017 The Guardian
The UK is the largest host of fentanyl sales on the darknet in Europe, with 1,000 trades being made in the last few months, OII research shows.
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La ‘uberización’ del empleo llega a la Sanidad
14 October 2017 El Pais
Mark Graham's interview with El Pais (Spanish) on the plan to ‘uberise’ the NHS.
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Will Alphabet’s internet balloons really help Puerto Rico?
11 October 2017 New Scientist
"Mark Graham at the Oxford Internet Institute, who studies developing information economies, [...] welcomes X’s plans. But he thinks we should be clear up front what Alphabet might want in return."
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How to hack frequent flyer miles for fun and profit
7 October 2017 The Verge
This week, the Oxford Internet Institute published a new paper on the internet subculture of mile-churning, and it’s a surprisingly good introduction to the subculture.
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Artist ‘vandalises’ Snapchat’s AR Balloon Dog sculpture
6 October 2017 BBC News
Mark Graham, professor at the Oxford Internet Institute, says "we should be asking questions" about who controls a city's virtual space.
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Uber’s New CEO Flies to London to Fight One of Many Fires
3 October 2017 Bloomberg
"Workers tend to be the most vulnerable to harm," said Mark Graham: "They have no job security, and all it takes is a market downturn, a new competitor, or new regulations to be financially disastrous."
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Artificial intelligence will create new kinds of work
26 August 2017 The Economist
Mark Graham interviewed about the globalisation of digital work.
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Continent risks fading from digital knowledge economy
30 June 2017 University World News
The rapid growth of internet use on the African continent has sparked hopes for the democratisation of knowledge production, but recent research suggests that connectivity is not enough to boost Africa’s position in the knowledge economy.
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Sub-Saharan Africa needs more than just connectivity
27 June 2017 ITWeb
Connectivity is an important enabler of digital content creation and knowledge production; however, a new study has found it is not an all-encompassing condition.
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‘Marginalisation’ risk for the 20% who stay offline
25 June 2017 The Times
Fears internet non-users may find it hard to access public services.
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Africa’s digital knowledge economy worrying
8 June 2017 SciDevNet
Africa has traditionally been left out of what is called the knowledge economy, but this is a concern, write Sanna Ojanpera and Mark Graham.
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SA scores among the highest African countries for locally sourced content
6 June 2017 Mail & Guardian
“Only eight countries in Africa ... have a majority of content that is locally produced,” according to a new study published last month in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
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Almost all internet searches in Africa bring up only results from the US and France
31 May 2017 Quartz
A Google search for “Accra,” the capital of Ghana, returns its Wikipedia entry, travel advice from Lonely Planet and TripAdvisor, and a few news websites like the Guardian.
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Come Google sta cambiando la nostra percezione dei luoghi
11 May 2017 Motherboard
OIII research on language, geography, and power in Google is featured (in Italian).
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How to resist the exploitation of digital gig workers
14 April 2017 Red Pepper
For the first time in history, we have a mass migration of labour without an actual migration of workers. Mark Graham and Alex Wood explore the consequences
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Pour leur développement économique, la Malaisie et le Nigeria de viennent de véritables usines à clic
14 April 2017 Le Figaro
OII research is featured in this piece on the online gig economy (in French).
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What the Gig Economy Looks Like Around the World
13 April 2017 The Atlantic
Mark Graham talks about the costs and benefits of digital freelance work.
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“Gig economy” and its effects on working Africans
4 April 2017 Africa News
Mark Graham discusses the opportunities and challenges of the new digital world for African workers [Radio, 4 min].
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Oxford Professor Mark Graham warns of ‘parasitic capitalism’ by digital companies
27 March 2017 Times of Africa
Oxford Professor Mark Graham, while addressing the 4th UNI Africa Conference in Dakar, Senegal, warned of the danger of ‘parasitic capitalism’ where digital companies gave little back to the places where they are embedded.
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The global gig economy and its implications for African digital workers
27 March 2017 Intelligent CIO
Addressing the 4th UNI Africa Conference in Dakar, Senegal, Mark Graham warned of the danger of ‘parasitic capitalism’ where digital companies give little back to the places where they are embedded and platform workers are left to fend for themselves.
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Pay crash expected in online gig economy as millions seek work
24 March 2017 New Scientist
A huge number of people in South-East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa looking for online “gig economy” work could cause a race to the bottom on pay and conditions, according to a new report from the Oxford Internet Institute.
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The hidden dangers of the global gig economy
21 March 2017 Wired
Oxford Internet Institute researchers say we need an equivalent of the Fairtrade Foundation to protect workers online
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A Different View of Mapping
1 March 2017 Stanford Social Innovation Review
Several platforms are using crowdsourcing and open-source technology to challenge Google’s dominance over how we see the world. Mark Graham comments.
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Researchers are trying to map the dark web economy to the real world
22 February 2017 The Outline
Mark Graham and Joss Wright are planning to spend a year creating the most comprehensive picture yet of the dark web economy.
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Digitale Kluft zwischen arm und reich
30 January 2017 Das Netz
Mark Graham is interviewed and quoted about Google’s responsibility for search results.
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Google responds on skewed Holocaust search results
20 December 2016 BBC News
"Absolutely they should face scrutiny because they occupy this position of immense power - they mediate a vast amount of the world's digital information," Mark Graham tells the BBC.
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Coopératives, forces et limites
5 October 2016 internetactu.net
Discussing work by Mark Graham and Alex Wood on the transformation of work in the digital age (in French).
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The digital gig economy needs co-ops and unions
4 October 2016 OpenDemocracy
Mark Graham challenges the culture of the digital gig economy, where millions of people attempt to outbid one another for increasingly precarious bit-work.
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Industry 4.0 – what does it mean for workers?
29 June 2016 Uni Global Union
Mark Graham of the Oxford Internet Institute says he found significant levels of income inequality on crowd work platforms such as Mechanical Turk with 80% of workers on one such site receiving only 10% of the income.
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The Lopsided Geography of Wikipedia
21 June 2016 The Atlantic
At the University of Oxford, Mark Graham and a team of researchers have spent several years investigating just how “global” Wikipedia's collective intelligence really is.
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You probably haven’t even noticed Google’s sketchy quest to control the world’s knowledge
11 May 2016 The Washington Post
Covering an article by Mark Graham and Heather Ford on how the city of Jerusalem is represented both on Wikipedia and in Google knowledge panel.
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Organising the Digital “Wild West”: Can Strategic Bottlenecks Help Prevent a Race to the Bottom for Online Workers?
11 May 2016 Union Solidarity International
Mark Graham discusses the atomised world of online work and points to ways in which a "race to the bottom" might be avoided.
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Sur Google Maps, on peut evaluer les centres de retention comme des parcs
25 April 2016 Motherboard
Mark Graham's work on inequalities in current Google Map coverage is quoted (French language)
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Digital Transformations of work: Digital work & the global precariat
30 March 2016 Union Solidarity International
In the first article of a three-part series exploring "Digital Transformations of Work", Mark Graham of the Oxford Internet Institute discusses the "worrying futures" facing digital workers, as well as outlining prospects for alternatives.
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As More Work Moves Online, The Threat of ‘Digital Sweatshops’ Looms
22 March 2016 Motherboard
Mark Graham talks about some of the early findings of research on how the internet is shifting work patterns in south east Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Why large parts of the internet have suddenly vanished for millions of users
18 March 2016 Quartz
In an article about the potential undesired effects of international sanctions of internet traffic, Mark Graham is quoted. ‘The metaphor of the cloud has serious limitations,’ he says.
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Un estudio revela que los países más ricos del mundo imprimen más diarios
25 February 2016 La Nacion
A study reveals that the richest countries in the world print more newspapers' . Work by Mark Graham and colleagues is referred to in an article in Argentina's leading newspaper about global print media. (Spanish)
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Unless you speak English, the internet doesn’t care about you.
18 February 2016 Fusion
English is the dominant internet language which causes difficulties for the non-Anglophone world. Mark Graham and Scott Hale are quoted.
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Facebook and the New Colonialism
11 February 2016 The Atlantic
Facebook's Free Basics platform has evoked strong criticism and it has been banned in India. Work by Mark Graham and team at the OII on inequalities of representation in Wikipedia is quoted.
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Exploring the Flow of Digital Labour
1 February 2016 Asia Research News
Just as online platforms such as Facebook and Twitter have rewired our social connections, a wave of digital service platforms is transforming the world of work. Mark Graham writes in Asia Research News
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Wikipedia celebrates its 15th birthday with 15 visualizations of the site
15 January 2016 Vice Motherboard
Marking the 15th anniversary of Wikipedia, Vice Motherboard features an OII map and says the team behind it 'make a lot of cool stuff'.
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Wikipedia launching $100m fund to secure long-term future as site turns 15
15 January 2016 The Guardian
The rise of the internet in developing countries is one area that Wikipedia is focusing on. In an article noting the 15th anniversary of the site, work by Mark Graham and team on the sources of edits on Wikipedia is cited.
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Facebook is no charity, and the ‘free’ in Free Basics comes at a price
11 January 2016 The Conversation
Mark Graham is critical of Facebook’s ‘Free Basics’ which offers free but very limited internet access in the developing world. This is less an act of charity than part of a business strategy to disrupt the market.
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Why Does Google Say Jerusalem Is the Capital of Israel?
30 November 2015 Slate
Mark Graham writes about how the contested meanings of the city known as Yerushalayim to Israelis in Hebrew, Al Quds to Palestinians and Jerusalem elsewhere in the English speaking world are represented on Google search results.
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Internet For All Is An Impossible Dream Right Now
11 October 2015 Gizmodo
Mark Graham authors an article in which he challenges the notion that within 10 years the internet will be available to everyone, pointing out problems of affordability and digital divide.
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Internet for all remains an impossible dream, no matter what Jimmy Wales says
8 October 2015 The Conversation
Mark Graham argues that despite predictions from Jimmy Wales, problems of affordability and new digital divides will impede progress towards world-wide internet connectivity.
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Four billion people remain remain without Internet globally
2 October 2015 Hurriyet Daily News
The Turkish news site reports on research by Mark Graham and colleagues on internet accessibility worldwide.
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Le taux d’accès à internet reste faible en Afrique
28 September 2015 SciDevNet
An article reporting on the work of Mark Graham and team on internet access in Africa (French language)
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Why It Matters That U.S. and European Editors Dominate Wikipedia
19 September 2015 takepart
Report of the work of Mark Graham and team on biases inherent in Wikipedia edits
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Studi: Barat Monopoli Wawasan Tentang Dunia Lewat Wikipedia
16 September 2015 Suara.com
Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on Wikipedia edits.
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Wikipedia nhìn thế giới qua lăng kính của các nước phương Tây
16 September 2015 Nhan Dan
Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on Wikipedia edits
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Internet. Cartographie : l’archipel de la déconnexion
16 September 2015 Courrier Sciences
Report of the work of Mark Graham and team on biases inherent in Wikipedia edits.
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Wikipedia’s view of the world is written by the west
15 September 2015 The Guardian
OII research has shown that most Wikipedia articles about places are edited by just five rich countries. Mark Graham, who led the research, says 'local voices rarely represent and define their own country'.
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Wikipedia’s world view is skewed by rich, western voices
15 September 2015 Wired.uk
Research by Mark Graham and team has shown that most Wikipedia articles about places are edited by just five rich countries. Editors from low-income countries were more likely to edit articles about high-income countries than their own.
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Wikipedia : un regard qui vient surtout de l’ouest
15 September 2015 Le Devoir
Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on regional differences in Wikipedia editing.
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Western Wikipedia editors writing history of poorer nations, study finds
15 September 2015 siliconrepublic
Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on regional differences in Wikipedia editing.
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Wikipedia world view ‘shaped by editors in the West’
15 September 2015 Phys.org
Report of the work of Mark Graham and team on biases inherent in Wikipedia edits.
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Africa: Digital Work Signals a Global Race to the Bottom
15 September 2015 allAfrica
Mark Graham writes about his research with Vili Lehdonvirta into the effect of online technologies on the African labour market. By connecting rich and poor into one labour market, workers' rights could be damaged, he says.
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Wkipedia’s world is written by the West
15 September 2015 Al Arabiya
Coverage of work by Mark Graham and colleagues about inherent biases in Wikipedia. (in Arabic)
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Europe’s refugee crisis spurs online activism, but few long-term solutions
11 September 2015 The Verge
Mark Graham comments on the role of web based campaigns and tools in the current refugee crisis.
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There are More Wikipedia Editors from the Netherlands than All of Africa
8 September 2015 VICE Motherboard
Research by the OII into participation in Wikipedia reveals that 45 percent of edits about places originate in five rich countries which challenges t he idea of that Wikipedia offers a platform for local voices.
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Microsoft beams Internet into Africa — using TV ‘white spaces’
28 August 2015 CNN
In an article about internet access to schools in Africa, Mark graham notes that many rural schools in Africa have many other needs.
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This New Internet-Sharing App Could Help Neighbors Get Online For Less
27 August 2015 Forbes Science
A new internet sharing app has been tested in New York. Mark Graham is quoted as saying he is concerned that it could contribute to the increasing commodification of modern life.
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Morocco Among Countries With Highest Internet Penetration in Africa: Oxford Survey
13 July 2015 Morocco World News
The Moroccan news site highlights the staggering growth in internet use in Morocco as demonstrated in maps created by Mark Graham and Ralph Straumann
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Where the Internet Lives: This Map Shows Which Countries Have Most People Online
13 July 2015 VICE Motherboard
Using 2013 World Bank data from, Mark Graham and Ralph Straumann have created a reconfigured map based on what percentage of populations across the world are connected to the Internet.
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Malay is among top 10 Internet language.
12 July 2015 The Rakyat Post
Using 2013 World Bank data from, Mark Graham and Ralph Straumann have created a reconfigured map based on what percentage of populations across the world are connected to the Internet.
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World wide web? Map resizes countries by number of internet users
10 July 2015 The Guardian
Using 2013 World Bank data from, Mark Graham and Ralph Straumann have created a map showing what percentage of populations across the world are connected to the Internet.
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MAP: Where people are online around the world
9 July 2015 The Washington Post
Using World Bank data from 2013, Mark Graham and Ralph Straumann have created a map showing what percentage of populations across the world are connected to the Internet.
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Carte: combien pèse votre pays sur Internet?
9 July 2015 Jeune Afrique
Using 2013 World Bank data from, Mark Graham and Ralph Straumann have created a reconfigured map based on what percentage of populations across the world are connected to the Internet. (French language)
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How Many People Are On The Internet In The World? This Map Shows You, And It’s Eye-Opening
9 July 2015 Bustle
The online new site features the map created by Mark Graham and Ralph Straumann reconfiguring countries based on what percentage of their population is connected to the Internet
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Micro-travailleurs de tous les pays, unissez-vous!
1 July 2015 Usbek et Rica
Under the title, Micro-workers of the world unite, the French magazine explores the world of micro-working. It quotes Mark Graham, who says that micro-workers can often be victims of abuse. (French language article)
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Why we shouldn’t get too excited about using big data for development
22 June 2015 The Guardian
In an article about the use of big data in development, Mark Graham strikes a note of caution. “Despite changing and widening connectivity in much of the world, the majority of the people on our planet are still entirely disconnected.”
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Culture rules us all
11 June 2015 MediaWeek
Mark Graham says that the language used online is significant. He points out that the English and French language dominate Wikipedia in Africa and may reinforce colonial era patterns of production and representation.
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The Digital Language Divide
29 May 2015 The Guardian
A Digital Guardian article which explores in depth the effects of language on internet use draws heavily on work done by OII researchers.
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The hidden biases of Geodata
28 April 2015 The Guardian
In a guest post, Mark Graham examines the sources of geographic information on the internet and highlights some of the biases leading to uneven geographies.
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What is a knowledge economy?
16 April 2015 SciDevNet
Mark Graham comments on the obstacles to the development of knowledge economies in Africa and suggests that African companies should focus on local markets.
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Interview with Mark Graham, Oxford Internet Institute
14 April 2015 University of Oxford
Mark Graham is interviewed about his work as part of the University of Oxford's 'Research in Conversation' series.
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Microjobbing in Sub-Saharan Africa
30 March 2015 Web Africa
An article about the research on internet mediated forms of work - 'micro-jobbing' - being carried out in partnership between the OII and the Gordon Institute of Business Science.
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Ten years of Google Maps – Tech Weekly podcast
11 February 2015 The Guardian
Mark Graham discusses how the geographies of the internet have reconfigured how people engage with the city.
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10 years of Google Maps
11 February 2015 Guardian Podcast
Mark Graham discusses how the geographies of the internet have reconfigured how people engage with the city
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Cracks in the digital map: what the ‘geoweb’ gets wrong about real streets
8 January 2015 Guardian
The geoweb is supplanting traditional guides and maps but it is an imperfect reflection of a commercial landscape. Mark Graham says that every map tells a story from a particular perspective.
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Broadband may be East Africa’s 21st century railway to the world
17 November 2014 The Conversation
Similarities and differences in the hopes, expectations and fears surrounding the advent of the Uganda Railway in 1903 and the introduction of the internet to Africa in 2009 have been compared by Mark Graham and team.
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25 maps and charts on language
17 November 2014 Vox
Vox features the map by Mark Graham et al showing the language in which the plurality of Wikipedia articles are written about particular countries. It shows that English is the major language even for articles about non Anglophone countries.
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2.5% of the world is responsible for more than 50% of Wikipedia articles
11 November 2014 The Washington Post
The information geographies project shows the majority of Wikipedia content is about 2.5% of the world's land area whilst the whole continent of Africa only has around 2.6% geotagged articles.
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Digital Human
10 November 2014 BBC Radio 4
Mark Graham talks to former OII visitor Aleks Krotoski about how digital mapping has affected our understanding of the world as part of the Digital Human series.
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Why you probably won’t understand the web of the future
6 November 2014 Quartz
Although less than 5% percent of the world uses English as a first language, it dominates the web. Organisations like Google, Facebook and Mozilla are taking steps to address language issues.. Mark Graham's map and comments feature.
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Map Shows The World’s Internet Population
23 September 2014 Huffington Post Tech
The map of the world demonstrating internet population and penetration created by Mark Graham and colleagues is featured in Huffington Post.
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The world wide SPREAD: Map shows what the world would look like based on then number of internet users in each country
22 September 2014 Mail Online
Following reports there are now more than a billion websites, researchers Mark Graham and Stefano de Sabbata have created an interactive map that reveals just how far and wide these sites penetrate the globe.
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The internet’s population, mapped by nationality
22 September 2014 Boingboing
The map of global Internet penetration created by Mark Graham and Stefano de Sabbata is analysed in a short article in Boingboing.
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The world wide SPREAD: Map reveals the extent of internet use around the globe – and the countries that are still not online
22 September 2014 Daily Mail
The map of global use of websites created by Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata is reported in the Daily Mail. The data visualisation shows each country sized according to its internet-enable population.
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Wikipedia’s geography problem: There are more articles about Antarctica than Egypt
14 September 2014 Vox
The distortions of global online representation is demonstrated with Mark Graham's map of the under-representation of Africa, Asia and South America in Wikipedia coverage worldwide.
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Geotagging reveals Wikipedia is not quite so equal after all
18 August 2014 New Statesman
Rather than being an equaliser, Wikipedia may be reproducing an established world view. Mark Graham writes about his work on inequalities in Wikipedia. For example, he says, the Middle East is massively underrepresented.
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What was the last book you read? Wikipedia wants to know
13 August 2014 The National Opinion
The interactive map of Wikipedia created by Mark Graham and colleagues is used to demonstrate inequalities in representation on Wikipedia.
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Does Kenya’s National Broadband Strategy Position it for Second-World Status?
28 April 2014 Government Technology
The technology site reports on broadband in Kenya quoting Mark Graham extensively. Unbridled optimist about new technology in Kenya is both good and bad he says.
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Infographic: A freelance working week revealed
24 April 2014 Wired.co.uk
Wired.co.uk reports on Mark Graham’s work on mapping patterns of work as part of a project on virtual labour. He will be visiting eight countries in Asia and Africa over two years to carry out the essential field work.
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Internet Mapping
23 April 2014 Nikkei
The Japanese business newspaper highlights Mark Graham's research. (Japanese original)
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Talk about a series of tubes: Undersea Internet cables mapped like the London Underground
4 April 2014 Washington Post
The 'Switch' blog of the Washington post discusses the graphic visualisation of the submarine fibre-optic cable network using the London tube map as a template.
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London Underground map depicts Internet’s backbone
3 April 2014 ITV
London Underground's iconic map design has been used by researchers at Oxford University to explain the Internet's complex network of submarine fiber optic cables.
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The Tube-Style Map Of The Internet’s Backbone
2 April 2014 Sky News
The fibre-optic cables that criss-cross the globe have been visualised by the OII's Stefano De Sabbata and Mark Graham.
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Interactive: which countries have the most Google search results?
18 March 2014 The Guardian
Does the number of pages returned by Google tie up closely with the size of a country's population? The OII's work on Internet geographies is featured.
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Why the wealthiest countries are also the most open with their data
14 March 2014 Washington Post
Coverage of an OII visualization of the state of open data in 70 countries around the world, showing a prominent global "openness divide".
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Internet : à quel point votre pays est-il connu sur Google?
14 March 2014 Jeune Afrique
Coverage of OII work on the geographies of information.
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There Are More Wikipedia Articles About This One Small Part of the World Than the Rest of It Combined
25 February 2014 The Atlantic
Analysis by Mark Graham and colleagues of over 3 million Wikipedia articles in the 44 most popular languages reveals that the majority of references are about an area occupying only 2.5 percent of the world's land mass.
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Die Kolonialmächte des Internets
8 November 2013 Die Zeit Data Blog
The colonial power of the Internets. Die Zeit features maps of internet users and domain owners created by OII researchers. (German)
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Why You Won’t Find Tuvalu on a Map of the World’s Internet Domains
6 November 2013 Slate
Slate magazine looks at the methods behind the maps of the world internet domains, created by Stefano de Sabbata, Mark Graham and Matthew Zook.
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The US, Germany, and Britain still dominate the Internet
6 November 2013 Washington Post
Wonkblog, part of the Washington Post featured the maps created by Mark Graham, Stefano De Sabbato and Matthew Zook which demonstrate the geography of top-level domain names.
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Um império chamado Google
30 October 2013 Epoca
An Empire called Google: Brazilian magazine Epoca features a map by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata depicting the world's "Internet empires" highlighting the most popular website in each country.
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Interactive map: African countries sized by number of Wikipedia articles
28 October 2013 Guardian Data Store
Is a country's presence online based on its population size and access to the internet? OII Researchers mapped how much was written about each African country on the online reference site Wikipedia.
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Here’s Where The 6 Billion Photos On Flickr Come From
12 October 2013 Business Insider
The Australian site features the map by Mark Graham et al which uses Flickr to demonstrate which parts of the world are visually most represent online.
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42% of the world’s Internet users live in Asia
11 October 2013 Yahoo Finance Singapore
Singapore’s financial news uses OII maps on internet use in Asia to illustrate the point that Asia is the world’s biggest continent and also the world’s biggest internet market.
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World’s online population mapped
11 October 2013 Stuff.co.nz
The New Zealand technology site highlights the findings of the Information Geographies project map of the world's online population.
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Die meistbesuchten Webseiten der Welt
7 October 2013 De Bild
Work by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata depicts the world's "Internet empires" in a map highlighting the most popular website in each country.
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Awesome map shows every country’s favourite website
7 October 2013 Herald Sun
Work by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata depicts the world's "Internet empires" in a map highlighting the most popular website in each country.
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‘Age of Internet Empires’ toont de populairste websites wereldwijd
6 October 2013 De Morgen
Work by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata depicts the world's "Internet empires" in a map highlighting the most popular website in each country.
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Google most popular site globally: Report
6 October 2013 Times of India
Tech News in Times of India reports on the map created by Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata which reveals the most popular websites across the world.
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Google dominates around the world
5 October 2013 Television New Zealand
Google is the most popular website used in New Zealand and around the world, with over one billion people visiting it, according to new research conducted by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata.
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Google, Facebook rule Age of Internet Empires
5 October 2013 India Today
Work by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata depicts the world's "Internet empires" in a map highlighting the most popular website in each country.
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Google rules the West but Japan still prefers Yahoo: Map reveals how different internet giants dominate countries across the globe
4 October 2013 Daily Mail
Work by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata depicts the world's "Internet empires" in a map highlighting the most popular website in each country.
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Google vs. Facebook vs. Baidu: Battle of the Internet empires
4 October 2013 ZDNet
Work by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata depicts the world's "Internet empires" in a map highlighting the most popular website in each country.
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Cuáles son los sitios web más populares del mundo en cada país
4 October 2013 La Nacion
Work by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata depicts the world's "Internet empires" in a map highlighting the most popular website in each country.
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Age of Internet Empires: One Map With Each Country’s Favorite Website
4 October 2013 The Atlantic
Stefano De Sabbata and Dr Mark Graham have created a map which shows the most popular website in each country, using a design that pays homage to the Age of Empires video game series.
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Google rules the West but Japan still prefers Yahoo: Map reveals how different internet giants dominate countries across the globe Read more: Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
4 October 2013 Daily Mail
A map of most visited websites across the world created by OII researchers show that Google dominates in the west followed by Facebook.
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Google Vs. Facebook: A Map Of Global Conquest
4 October 2013 NPR
NPR take a look at the OII maps of global internet use.
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And The World’s Most Popular Websites Are…
3 October 2013 CBC News
Work by the OII's Mark Graham and Stefano De Sabbata depicts the world's "Internet empires" in a map highlighting the most popular website in each country.
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Facebook or Google: which website rules the world?
3 October 2013 Guardian Online
Stefano De Sabbata and Dr Mark Graham from the Oxford Internet Institute have created a map which shows the most popular website in each country, using a design that pays homage to the Age of Empires video game series.
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Microsoft beams Internet into Africa – using TV ‘white spaces’
23 September 2013 CNN News
Mark Graham welcomes an initiative to bring broadband to rural African communities using the unused channels of broadcast TV spectrum but expresses a note of caution, saying schools in Africa may have other, equal needs.
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Kenya’s laptops for schools dream fails to address reality
27 June 2013 The Guardian Poverty Matters Blog
The Kenyan Government is investing a massive £400 million in 1.3 million laptops for school children. Mark Graham argues that this strategy ignores the realities of a country of great inequalities and the funding might be better directed elsewhere.
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Wikipedians most likely to war over ‘Israel,’ ‘God’
3 June 2013 The Times of Israel
Reporting Taha Yasseri’s work the Times of Israel notes that in Hebrew Wikipedia the greatest divisions are mainly about religious sects and armed conflicts but across the languages ‘Israel ‘ and ‘Hitler’ are the most contested subjects.
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Chile, el tema más controvertido de Wikipedia en espaňol
3 June 2013 BBC Mundo
The most controversial topics in Spanish Wikipedia, identified by Taha Yasseri and Mark Graham are highlighted on the BBC’s Spanish language web site.
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Wikipedia ‘Edit Wars’: The most hotly contested topics
31 May 2013 Live Science
Taha Yasseri says Wikipedia suffers from traditional features of human societies. People argue most on Wikipedia about religion and politics with variations on non-English language sites. Romanians for example argue most about musicians and art.
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The Most Controversial Article in all of English Wikipedia is George Bush’s
31 May 2013 The Huffington Post
The Huffington Post says that the study of controversial topics in Wikipedia by Taha Yasseri and Mark Graham contains some ‘incredible graphics’ several of which are displayed.
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The Controversial Topics of Wikipedia
30 May 2013 Wired Science Blog
Wired magazine article sets out some of the findings of Taha Yasseri, mark Graham and colleagues’ work on contested subjects in Wikipedia. The table of the most controversial articles in each language edition is featured.
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Every Wikipedia flame war in 1 impressive map
29 May 2013 The Daily Dot
Online community newspaper The Daily Dot features the Wikipedia Conflict Map created by Taha Yasseri, Mark Graham and others which highlights areas of controversy among Wikipedia contributors and editors.
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Wikipedia: Über Israel und Hitler streitet man überall
28 May 2013 Zeit Online
On Wikipedia people everywhere argue about Israel as well as Hitler. Die Zeit blog explores the discussions of contentious issues on Wikipedia drawing heavily on the research of Taha Yasseri and Mark Graham.
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Wikipedia is not free
21 May 2013 Caijing.com.cn
The challenge for Wikipedia of expanding beyond the English speaking world is published in the independent Beijing-based Chinese language magazine. Mark Graham’s research is referenced and DPhil student Heath Ford is quoted.
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OPINIÓN: El acceso generalizado a internet, ¿es una meta alcanzable?
17 May 2013 CNN Mexico
Is widespread access to the Internet and achievable goal? Mark Graham’s work is referenced in the Spanish language site, noting the US, Canada and Europe account for 84 per cent of the articles in Wikipedia.
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Gütesiegel für Wikipedia
13 May 2013 Technology Review
The German Technology site looks at how academics use Wikipedia in Germany and beyond. It refers to Mark Graham’s work, quoted in ‘The Atlantic’, suggesting that Wikipedia reflects the background of its editors and contributors.
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Why Wikipedia’s Millionth Russian Page Is Worth Celebrating
11 May 2013 Simulacrum
An English language version of an article originally in Russian links to Mark Graham’s work on the origins of Wikipedia articles and notes that diasporas have an important role to play.
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Malaysia’s social media election
2 May 2013 Al Jazeera
In the run-up to the Malaysia's first 'social media' election, Al Jazeera quotes findings by Mark Graham that Malaysia is the sixth largest producer of information via Twitter in the world.
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Catalan Wikipedia Reaches 400,000 Article Milestone
19 April 2013 Global Voices
The Catalan version of Wikipedia plays an important role in raising global awareness of the region, people and its language. Mark Graham says that nowhere in the world has such high visibility for a language is relatively little spoken.
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Free for all? Lifting the lid on a Wikipedia crisis
17 April 2013 New Scientist
In an in-depth analysis of the challenges facing Wikipedia in expanding participation beyond the English speaking world, Mark Graham’s research on Wikipedia is referenced and DPhil student Heather Ford is quoted.
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Who Writes the Wikipedia Entries About Where You Live?
26 March 2013 The Atlantic
Mark Graham tackles the issue of where our information comes from, and how this should influence the way we interpret it?
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Where is Africa on the Internet?
18 March 2013 WIPO
The UN Agency website quotes Mark Graham's research findings in an article about the WikiAfrica project. He says that there are more Wikipedia articles written about Antarctica than all but one of the 54 countries of Africa.
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Sad if no ethics in social media
28 February 2013 Straits Times
In a speech at an event during Malaysia's Social Media Week, PM Datuk Seri Naji Razak referred to Mark Graham's work on Twitter usage as evidence that Malaysia stands out as a forward looking country.
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Najib: Election 2013 first social media election
27 February 2013 The Malaysian Insider
The Malaysian Prime Minister has predicted that the forthcoming election will be Malaysia's first social media election. He quoted research by Mark Graham which indicated that Malaysia and Brazil have very high levels of Twitter use.
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Tweets help visualise information density of African cities
18 February 2013 DW Akademie
'Cities have become both digital and digitized' says Mark Graham whose work on geocoded tweets in African cities is answering questions on his research for Deutsche Welle Akademie.
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Mapping Tweets in Africa
14 February 2013 The Guardian Data Store
Who uses Twitter in Africa? Where are they based? The Guardian Data Store says that Mark Graham’s datamaps of tweets from key African cities provide a unique insight.
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The Urbanist: A weekly look at the people and ideas shaping our urban lives. Maps.
14 February 2013 Monocle
Monocle's editor Andrew Tuck interviews Mark Graham about maps. Episode 70 (14 February)
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How the Internet Reinforces Inequality in the Real World
6 February 2013 The Atlantic
In this in-depth article, Mark Graham discusses the different ways we can think about and study the digital information about real-world places in the geoweb.
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Big data and the death of the theorist
25 January 2013 Wired
Mark Graham is skeptical about on the death of the scientific theory at the hands of big data analysis: "when talking about 'big data' and the humanities, there will always be things that are left unsaid, things that haven't been measured or codified".
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Uncharted territory: Where digital maps are leading us
25 January 2013 New Scientist
The problem with many digital maps is that it is difficult to know how they have been curated - and who, what and where is left out. And the map-making choices made by the likes of Google or Microsoft are often unclear, says Mark Graham.
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Tweets decide SAFC v Toon fans’ debate
12 January 2013 Jarrow and Hebburn Gazette
Regional newspaper, the Jarrow and Hebburn Gazette highlights the references to the football clubs of the North East in the Premier League Twitter map created by the OII team.
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Chasing data shadows: Twitter map of football fans
11 January 2013 University of Oxford
A team from the OII has created an interactive Twitter map to find out where conversations about premier league football clubs originate. It shows that there are fewer Manchester United fans in London and the south-east than is popularly assumed.
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Oxford Internet Institute maps Premier League Twitter conversations in UK
11 January 2013 Anchorfan
Social Sport News site reports on the interactive map produced by Mark Graham and the OII team which maps twitter conversations about Premier League football clubs.
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Twitter map finally reveals exactly where Manchester United fans live
11 January 2013 Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph highlights the ‘fascinating’ map plotting Twitter conversations about Premier League Football clubs created by a team at the OII.
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Now a Twitter map of football fans
11 January 2013 India Blooms
India based web-site reports the work of the OII team on the interactive Premier League Twitter map.
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Most Man U fans do not come from the south, study shows
11 January 2013 ITV
ITV reports the work of the OII team on the interactive Premier League Twitter map.
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Which Premier League teams are the most popular in search area? A Twitter interactive map
11 January 2013 The Guardian
The interactive map of geotagged Tweets mentioning Premier League teams or associated hashtags created by the team at the OII features on the Data Store Show and Tell page of the Guardian.
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Digital trails of the UK floods – how well do tweets match observations?
28 November 2012 The Guardian, Datablog
Physical phenomena like floods don’t just leave physical trails; they create digital ones as well. Mark Graham and the team have combined meteorological and social media data to plot data shadows of the recent UK floods.
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Twitter Map Predicts 2012 Presidential Election: Will It Be Right?
6 November 2012 Huffington Post Technology (US)
A map of the origins of tweets referencing either Obama or Romney in the month leading up to the US presidential elections predicted the outcome.
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Election 2012: Twitter map predicts presidential race results
6 November 2012 Syracuse.com
A map of the origins of tweets referencing either Obama or Romney in the month leading up to the US presidential elections predicted the outcome.
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Double Take
4 November 2012 BBC Radio 5 Live
Mark Graham talks to Radio 5 Live about the role of social media in spreading information during a crisis.
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What can Twitter tell us about Hurricane Sandy flooding? Visualised
31 October 2012 Guardian Datablog
Mark Graham, with help from an OII team, collected tweets mentioning flooding to examine how twitter usage might reflect lived experiences of Hurricane Sandy. The resulting visualisation shows where US tweets originated over the crucial two days.
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The new local
27 October 2012 The Economist
The physical and the digital world are becoming increasingly intertwined. The smartphone allows easy online exploration of physical surroundings. A paper by Mark Graham and others which imagines a digital 'Ulysses' through Dublin is quoted.
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The world in your pocket
27 October 2012 The Economist
Mark Graham's work on the geoweb, online information used by digital mapmakers, is highlighted in an article about how digital maps are created. The geoweb is thickest in the Nordic countries and thinnest in the poorest areas.
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Siamo tutti cartografi
1 October 2012 Corriere della sera
Mark Graham is quoted in an article about geomapping, explaining how digital maps are created and the discrepancies between the richest and poorest countries.
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In the Balance: Are we all smartphone users now?
16 September 2012 BBC World Service
Mark Graham and others discussed whether increased connectivity changes lives and if business people must have smartphones. The panel agreed that connectivity does change lives but was less convinced about smartphones, especially in Africa.
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London 2012 Olympics: the first Twitter Games opens debate of athletes using social media
31 July 2012 Daily Telegraph
Olympic athletes have been interacting with sports fans and the general public via social media and in particular Twitter. But there is divided opinion among athletes and coaches as to the benefits. Mark Graham comments.
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Map of the Day: The Geography of Klout
17 July 2012 The Atlantic
Coverage of an OII map of the geography of Klout, the online service that attempts to gauge social media influence. The map was produced as part of OII research on the geography of Twitter.
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Where Tweets are born: the top countries on Twitter
6 July 2012 Huffington Post (USA)
Mark Graham’s research into the countries that use Twitter most shows that citizens in the US use Twitter more than any other country, followed by Brazil, Indonesia and the UK.
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US tops Twitter Chart
6 July 2012 CorpComms
The on-line magazine for corporate communicators reports the research by Mark Graham and Monica Stephens into the origin of Twitter users. Mark's comments on the OII website about the usefulness of Twitter are quoted.
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Tweeting all over the world
5 July 2012 Daily Mail
The Daily Mail reports details of OII research into the origin of tweets. Mark Graham is extensively quoted on how he and fellow researcher Monica Stephens went about collecting data and mapping the results.
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Where the World’s Tweets Come From, Vizualised.
5 July 2012 Gizmodo
Report of the research by Mark Graham and Monica Stephens into the origins of Tweets worldwide.
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Church vs beer: using Twitter to map regional differences in US culture
4 July 2012 Guardian Data-Store
The Guardian Data Store featured one of Mark Graham's visualisations which used geolocated Tweets to gauge differences in culture across the US. The most tweets including 'beer' came from San Francisco and the most for 'church' from Dallas, Texas.
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Where Do the World’s Tweets Come From?
29 June 2012 The Atlantic.com
The OII visualization 'A Geography of Twitter' is a good illustration of how wide is the Twitter world says Rebecca Rosen. Authors Mark Graham and Monica Stephens suggest Twitter might allow democratization of information sharing and production.
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Wikipedia busts the language barrier
16 May 2012 New Scientist
Mark Graham comments on Omnipedia, a software system which allows users to browse topics from up to 25 Wikipedia language editions at once.
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The Problem with Wikidata
6 April 2012 The Atlantic
Mark Graham highlights potential drawbacks to Wikidata, an initiative by Wikipedia which will allow a single change on a central repository to change references across all the language versions. The risk is that cultural context will be lost.
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Wikipedia world: an interactive guide to every language. Infographic map
4 April 2012 The Guardian
In 'Show and Tell' on the Guardian Data Store, Simon Rogers, winner of the OII award for best internet journalist in 2011, highlights the Mapping Wikipedia project which shows millions of articles worldwide in a variety of languages.
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O mundo pela Wikipédia
1 April 2012 Exame Magazine
Exame, the Brazilian economic and business magazine, features the work of Mark Graham and colleagues on Wikipedia as part of the Geographies of the World's Knowledge project.
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Confirmed: The Internet Does Not Solve Global Inequality
26 March 2012 The Atlantic
The message of the OII's interactive iBook "Geographies of the World's Knowledge" confirms that the Anglophone world dominates academic and user-generating publishing and rich countries dominate the production of user content.
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Big data and the end of theory?
9 March 2012 The Guardian
The notion that 'big' data produces better insights and results than traditional methodology has gained traction in popular imagination and beyond. But does big data have the answers that specialists can't provide? Mark Graham suggests otherwise.
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Without Wikipedia, where can you get your facts?
18 January 2012 BBC News
On the day that Wikipedia blacks out its English language site, the BBC News magazine explores alternative sources of information. Mark Graham says that Wikipedia is open access, free and that mistakes are quickly corrected.
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In a networked world, why is the geography of knowledge still uneven?
9 January 2012 The Guardian
User-generated Internet content is weighted towards the global north; Mark Graham suggests that the division of digital labour urgently needs rebalancing.
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Santa v Satan v Zombies: who wins in the battle for Google Maps?
16 December 2011 The Guardian Datablog
Father Christmas faces the Devil and the undead in this academic research from Mark Graham’s work on Google maps
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Wikipedia Language Maps Created By Oxford Internet Institute’s Mark Graham
13 November 2011 Huffington Post
"Mark Graham led a team of researchers who broke down Wikipedia's geotagged articles by language and examined the global scope of the encyclopedia. They plotted these data onto maps of the world to show the spread of languages within the encyclopedia."
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This Map Shows the World of Wikipedia Broken Down by Languages
11 November 2011 Gizmodo US
"Ever wondered if anyone outside your redneck little town writes about it on Wikipedia? Or if anyone has ever written about Australia in Arabic? Guess no longer, because someone's worked it out for you."
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The world of Wikipedia’s languages mapped
11 November 2011 Guardian Datablog
What happens if you map every geotagged Wikipedia article - and then analyse it for language use? A team of Oxford University researchers has found out.
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Fibre-optic hopes for East Africa
31 October 2011 Economic and Social Research Council
Mark Graham interviewed on East African broadband: "The arrival of fibre-optic cables has been generally perceived as a hugely transformative event. There seems to be a lot of optimism that East African businesses will now be able to compete globally".
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Oxford Internet Institute creates zombie awareness map: Zombie-related internet activity surveyed across the world
8 October 2011 Cherwell
Cherwell features the OII's zombie awareness map, part of the OII visualisation series. Mark Graham comments "Broadly speaking I am interested in the geography of information. I'm also a big fan of (or terrified of) zombies".
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Oxford on standby for zombie invasion
7 October 2011 The Oxford Student
"Computer wizards at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) have constructed an online map which denotes the part of the world where the search keyword "zombie" is most prevalent." The map is part of the OII's visualisation series.
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The Flickr map of the world
30 September 2011 The Guardian
Who shares their images with the world? The Guardian's Datablog highlights Mark Graham's visualisation of Flickr use worldwide.
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Oxford University on zombie alert
29 September 2011 Technolog, msnbc.com
"So you know the impending zombie apocalypse, the one we in the Western world await with a mix of dread and anticipation?" Mark Graham maps the zombie apocalypse using the Google Maps database.
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The Zombie Map of the World
23 September 2011 The Guardian
"What happens when you ask Google maps for the location of zombies around the world?" Mark Graham maps the zombie apocalypse using the Google Maps database.
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The World Map of the Places That Care About Zombies
23 September 2011 The Atlantic Wire
"The Oxford Internet Institute produces some of the more engaging data-visualizations we seem to come across on Tumblr or Twitter". Mark Graham maps the zombie apocalypse using the Google Maps database.
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Getting creative with data
15 August 2011 The Guardian
Mark Graham is quoted on the power of new technology to assist sustainability and ethical consumption.
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Oxford: East African SMEs Clamoring to Use Internet
7 July 2011 GBI Portal
The ESRC and DFID have awarded funding to the East Africa research group at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), led by Dr Mark Graham, to study the economic impact of broadband roll-out in East Africa.
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A New Kind of Globalisation? User-Generated Content and Transparent Production Chains
9 December 2010 The Guardian
Mark Graham writes about visualising production chains: in an age of transparency and instant access to information, why do we know so little about the factories and farms that make the things that we consume?
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Will broadband internet establish a new development trajectory for east Africa?
7 October 2010 The Guardian
Mark Graham on how recent investment in broadband in East Africa (the last major region on Earth without fibre-optic broadband Internet connections) will fundamentally alter the connectivity of the region.
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“Football” crazy
19 June 2010 The Economist
Discussing Mark Graham's work that calculates the proportion of all geo-tagged internet content (linked to Google Map placemarks) mentioning the word "football" in the 32 countries competing in the 2010 World Cup.
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The Beer Belly of America
17 March 2010 New York Times
Mark Graham uses Google Maps data to shows the parts of the US where bars outnumber grocery stores, in order to chart drinking patterns and visualize how social values help shape economic markets.
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The playcast: Decoding Wikipedia and following cricket on Twitter
21 January 2010 Mint.com
Interview with Mark Graham about the geography of Wikipedia, looking at those places in the world that are well-represented in in wikipedia, and those which aren't.
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Map Reveals Which Countries Wikipedia Discusses Most — And Least
12 December 2009 Huffington Post
Mark Graham's Wikipedia map shows areas best covered by Wikipedia: 'Remarkably there are more Wikipedia articles written about Antarctica than all but one of the fifty-three countries in Africa.'
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Wikipedia’s known unknowns
1 December 2009 The Guardian
Marks Graham's analysis of Wikipedia entries reveals the world's knowledge deserts - which may provide a second wave of activity for the online encyclopedia.
Integrity Statement
In the past five years my work has been financially supported by the European Research Council, the Alan Turing Institute, the British Academy, Google, the ESRC, Ox-Ber, the Weizenbaum Institute, the Ford Foundation, and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. I have previously served on DFID’s Digital Advisory Panel. I have served in an unpaid advisory capacity to the WEF and the Global Partnership on AI.