Oxford Internet Institute

Current projects

• Big Data and Human Development

  Participants: Professor Mark Graham

  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.

• 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 current and potential impact of Internet and mobile technologies on social and economic development, especially when it comes to the emergence of new and transformative 'virtual' economic activities and work.

• GeoNet: Internet Geographies: Changing Connectivities and the Potentials of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Knowledge Economy

  Participants: Professor Mark Graham, Clarence Singleton, Dr Stefano De Sabbata, Nicolas Friederici, Dr Christopher Foster, Sanna Ojanperä, Dr Mohammad Amir Anwar

  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 acros the region.

• 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.

• 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.

• Wikichains: Encouraging Transparency in Commodity Chains

  Participants: David Sutcliffe, Professor Mark Graham, Joshua Melville, Dr Steve New

  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.

Past projects

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• ICT and Development

  Introducing the debates and practices surrounding ICT uses in the Global South and Global North, drawing on Anthropology, Development Studies, Economics, Geography and History to examine the theoretical and conceptual frameworks that underpin development.

• Mark Graham interviewed about gig economy

  Recorded: 16 November 2016

  Duration: 00:05:16

  Professor Mark Graham interviewed about gig economy

• Symposium on Big Data and Human Development: Panel Discussion

  Recorded: 16 September 2016

  Duration: 01:20:17

  Peter Tufano (University of Oxford) Prof. Helen Margetts (University of Oxford), Prof. Bitange Ndemo (University of Nairobi Business School), Prof. Sandy Pentland (MIT) and Dr Linnet Taylor (Tilburg University).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Four Thought

  Recorded: 18 May 2014

  Duration: 00:15:30

  Are the information-rich just getting richer? Listen to Mark Graham discuss the ecology of unevenness on the Internet.

• 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.

• 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.

• Geography, Big Data, and Augmented Realities

  1 August 2012 - 12:00 am

  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.

• OII Recognised as Educational Institution of the Year at Wikimedia UK’s Annual Conference

  15 June 2012 - 12:00 am

  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.

• Which nation talks about football the most in cyberspace?

  17 June 2010 - 12:00 am

  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.

• Symposium on Big Data and Human Development

  15 September 2016 - 16 September 2016, 00:00 - 00:00

  This workshop aims to move forward the debate about the ways in which big data is used, can be used, and should be used in development.

• Digital Transformations of Work Conference

  10 March 2016 - 10 March 2016, 09:00:00 - 16:30:00

  This conference is presented as part of the Green Templeton Transformation of Work Conference

• Wikipedia 15th Birthday Editathon: The Social Internet

  15 January 2016 - 15 January 2016, 12:00:00 - 18:00:00

  On Friday 15 January 2016 Wikipedia will celebrate its fifteenth birthday and we are celebrating by having a Wikipedia editathon!

• Global Conference on Economic Geography 2015

  19 August 2015 - 23 August 2015, 09:00:00 - 17:00:00

  DR MARK GRAHAM will be speaking at 'Digital Economies: Reconfiguring uneven geographies: a Plenary Conversation' on Thursday 20 August.

• Mapping Social Interactions Online (Doctoral Research Methods Workshop Series, Part 3)

  29 November 2012 - 29 November 2012, 14:00:00 - 16:00:00

  This is the third workshop in a three-part series on social science research methods, aimed at doctoral students at the University of Oxford.

• Urban Food Futures: ICTs and Opportunities

  14 December 2011 - 14 December 2011, 09:30:00 - 17:00:00

  This symposium brings together leading scholars across disciplines to address challenges and opportunities at the intersection of food and ICTs in everyday urban environment.

• Mapping Social Interactions Online (Doctoral Research Methods Workshop Series, Part 3)

  1 December 2011 - 1 December 2011, 14:00:00 - 17:00:00

  This is the third workshop in a three-part series on social science research methods, aimed at doctoral students at the University of Oxford.

• Undergraduate Lecture Series (H6): The Digital Economy: Shaping Economic Development in Rich and Poor Nations

  21 February 2011 - 21 February 2011, 16:00:00 - 17:30:00

  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?

• Shaping the new world of work

  21 November 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Join our team: we’re hiring a Data Scientist / Data Hacker

  10 November 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Philip Leverhulme Award: Internet Geographies

  25 October 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development

  20 October 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Development has always grappled with why some people and places have much more than others. Yet much of that conversation is lost within contemporary [...]

• The Impact of Connectivity in Africa: Grand Visions and the Mirage of Inclusive Digital Development

  20 October 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Development has always grappled with why some people and places have much more than others. Yet much of that conversation is lost within contemporary [...]

• Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks

  14 October 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Chris Foster and I have a new publication out in Global Networks. We previously shared a pre-publication version, but the piece is officially in [...]

• “Perish or Globalize:” Network Integration and the Reproduction and Replacement of Weaving Traditions in the Thai Silk Industry

  13 October 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Mapping Flickr

  3 October 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Flickr is one of the world’s most popular photo sharing websites, and represents a key way in which people form impressions about different parts [...]

• Mapping Flickr

  3 October 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Flickr is one of the world’s most popular photo sharing websites, and represents a key way in which people form impressions about different parts [...]

• The Digital Geographies specialty group mailing list

  30 September 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I have been working with some brilliant colleagues and collaborators to set up a new ‘Digital Geographies’ speciality group up at the Association of American [...]

• The geography of Wikipedia edits

  28 September 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Wikipedia has a geography. This is something that my colleagues and I have explored previously in a variety of scholarship. For a new book [...]

• The geography of Wikipedia edits

  28 September 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Wikipedia has a geography. This is something that my colleagues and I have explored previously in a variety of scholarship.  For a new book [...]

• Why the digital gig economy needs co-ops and unions

  27 September 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Why the digital gig economy needs co-ops and unions

  27 September 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Symposium on Big Data and Human Development – closing remarks

  16 September 2016

  Authors: 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 had [...]

• Digital\Human\Labour **Call for papers at the 2017 AAG meeting**

  6 September 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Digital\Human\Work  **Call for papers at the 2017 AAG meeting**

  5 September 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Call for Papers: Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. April 5-9, 2017, Boston, MA The Digital Geographies Working Group of the RGS/IBG and the [...]

• New paper: Provenance, Power and Place: Linked Data and Opaque Digital Geographies

  30 August 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Heather Ford and I have a new commentary coming out in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. As places are ever-more augmented by [...]

• Pokémon Go and the Need to Critically Consider Augmented Realities

  13 July 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 13 July 2016 11:37 am. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• Interview from ‘Shaping the New World of Work’ conference

  5 July 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  A short video interview that I did about digital labour markets at the ETUI conference on ‘Shaping the New World of Work’. Note: This post [...]

• A short video interview that I did about digital labour markets…

  5 July 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 5 July 2016 11:12 am. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• Mapping the EU Referendum on Twitter

  17 June 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 17 June 2016 4:19 pm. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• Power, politics and digital development (our DSA 2016 sessions)

  30 May 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 30 May 2016 7:38 pm. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• Digital work marketplaces impose a new balance of power

  27 May 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Digital work marketplaces impose a new balance of power

  27 May 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 27 May 2016 4:45 pm. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• New publication – Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research

  17 May 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Organising in the “digital wild west”: Can strategic bottlenecks help prevent a race to the bottom for online workers?

  11 May 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Reconsidering the Role of the Digital in Global Production Networks (new paper)

  13 April 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Spatial discourses around Internet access in the developing world (new paper)

  1 April 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Historicizing Big Data and Geo-information

  30 March 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• ‘Digital Transformations of Work’ 🎬 Conference Webcasts 🎬

  23 March 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations (now in print)

  22 March 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Digital Transformations of Work [Conference, March 10 2016]

  29 January 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• ‘big data’ and development seminar series

  28 January 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (new publication)

  19 January 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Growing the Kenyan Business Process Outsourcing Sector (new publication)

  19 January 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Introducing Mohammad Amir Anwar to the Geonet project

  13 January 2016

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Facebook is no charity, and the ‘free’ in Free Basics comes at a price

  11 January 2016

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Who could possibly be against free internet access? This is the question that Mark Zuckerberg asks in a piece for the Times of India [...]

• New publication: Who isn’t online? Mapping the ‘Archipelago of Disconnection’

  22 December 2015

  Authors: 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.’ [...]

• Kapuścinski Public Lecture – “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era”

  10 November 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I recently had the opportunity to give a Kapuścinski public lecture titled “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era.” You can watch the [...]

• “E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human Empowerment and Development” – Kapuściński Development Lecture

  28 October 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I’m delighted to be giving a Kapuściński Development Lecture on Nov 9. The talk will be titled ‘E-society and E-citizens: from Technology Transfer to Human [...]

• Digital Economies: Video of Keynote at the Global Conference on Economic Geography

  8 October 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Internet for all remains an impossible dream, no matter what Jimmy Wales says

  8 October 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I wrote a short piece for The Conversation about the potentials of ubiquitous connectivity. In it, I argue that neither cheaper internet nor the supposed altruism of [...]

• New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information

  29 September 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The latest issue of New Geographies is now out, and contains an exciting collection of papers: My contribution to the issue is titled ‘Information Geographies and [...]

• Here’s why visions of ubiquitous connectivity aren’t going to be realised any time soon

  28 September 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Our Wikipedia Research in the News

  27 September 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• The geography of academic knowledge

  22 September 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• “Virtual products aren’t built with virtual work”: a comment piece about concerns about digital labour for development

  15 September 2015

  Authors: 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, [...]

• New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

  7 September 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Network of Wikipedia edits between world regions, normalised for each target region. The edges are coloured according to the source region. Percentages denote self-edits [...]

• Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps

  17 August 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  We very recently published a paper that brings together a lot of the internet mapping work that we’ve been doing: Graham, M., S. De Sabbata, [...]

• New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

  14 August 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Our research group spends a lot of time mapping the internet and the digital information that flows within it. So we decided to attempt [...]

• 互联网地理：数据阴影和数字分工

  7 August 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I recently had the opportunity to give a talk to a visiting Chinese delegation to Oxford. The hosts kindly translated my entire slide deck [...]

• New job working with us at the Oxford Internet Institute: ‘Researcher in ICTs, Geography and Development’

  22 July 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Measuring the Impacts of Connectivity

  18 June 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Uneven Geographies of Digital Wages

  9 June 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• “The digital language divide” – our research featured in The Guardian

  29 May 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The Guardian has just published a long piece about The Digital Language Divide. It features a lot of our work into internet and information [...]

• New paper: “The Domestic Turn: Business Processing Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations”

  10 May 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• The hidden biases of Geodata

  29 April 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Geographic information underpins so much of what we do today on the internet. By knowing the location of a tweet, a profile, or any [...]

• Mapping the geographies of digital work

  13 April 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• New paper – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers

  31 March 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• The Internet and Business Process Outsourcing in East Africa

  25 February 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• New paper: “Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information”

  12 February 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Some colleagues (Shilad Sen, Heather Ford, Dave Musicant, Oliver Keyes, Brent Hecht) and I have put together a paper for CHI on Barriers to the [...]

• New paper: ‘Contradictory Connectivity: Spatial Imaginaries and Techno-Mediated Positionalities in Kenya’s Outsourcing Sector’

  22 January 2015

  Authors: 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. [...]

• Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus

  21 January 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The previous post demonstrated not only that Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa are net-importers of content on Wikipedia (Sub-Saharan Africa, [...]

• Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: mapping edit focus

  21 January 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The previous post demonstrated not only that Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East and North Africa are net-importers of content on Wikipedia (Sub-Saharan Africa, for instance, [...]

• Informational Magnetism on Wikipedia: geographic networks of edits

  15 January 2015

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The previous posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed the varying types of local engagement that different regions have, the primary reason [...]

• Sample chapters available from new book ‘Research and Fieldwork in Development’

  12 January 2015

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Digging deeper into the localness of participation in Sub-Saharan African Wikipedia content

  16 December 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The previous two posts about the geography of contributions to Wikipedia showed both the different types of local engagement that different regions have, and [...]

• Explaining locally-contributed content in Wikipedia about Sub-Saharan Africa

  12 December 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  An earlier post showed how different parts of the world have very different levels of engagement with local content in Wikipedia. The data presented [...]

• New book drawing on fieldwork in Sub-Saharan Africa

  10 December 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Reflections on the ITU’s World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators Symposium

  25 November 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• New paper published: ‘Where in the World Are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter’

  19 November 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Broadband may be East Africa’s 21st century railway to the world

  17 November 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The excitement over the potentially transformative effects of the internet in low-income countries is nowhere more evident than in East Africa. Reposted from The [...]

• Introducing GEONET: studying Sub-Saharan Africa’s knowledge economies

  15 November 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Interview about the power of digital maps

  10 November 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  I recently had the opportunity to participate in an interview about digital maps. The interview is in BBC Radio 4’s excellent ‘Digital Human’ programme on [...]

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

  6 November 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  A special issue of the journal innovations has just been published. The issue focused on the topic of ‘digital inclusion’ and features a short piece that [...]

• Investigating virtual production networks in Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia

  3 November 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• contrasting visions of connectivity between the colonial and contemporary moments

  2 November 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• New publication: Geographies of Connectivity in East Africa: Trains, Telecommunications, and Technological Teleologies

  28 October 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• New publication: Urban Food Futures: ICTs and Opportunities

  27 October 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 27 October 2014 3:18 pm. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• New publication: Using Geotagged Digital Social Data in Geographic Research

  24 October 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 24 October 2014 12:38 pm. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• The Geographically Uneven Coverage of Wikipedia

  21 October 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• A global division of microwork

  8 October 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• A World’s Panorama

  5 October 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Mapping the global submarine fibre-optic cable network

  2 October 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Mapping the economic geographies of knowledge-production and digital participation from Sub-Saharan Africa

  1 October 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Gender and Social Networks

  27 September 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• The World Through the Eyes of a Search Algorithm

  27 September 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Geographic Knowledge in Freebase

  21 September 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Hashtags and Haggis: Mapping the Scottish Referendum

  18 September 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 18 September 2014 8:15 am. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• World-wide News Web

  15 September 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Society and the Internet – Introduction now available online

  12 September 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 12 September 2014 5:21 pm. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• Geographic intersections of languages in Wikipedia

  12 September 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Geographic coverage of Wikivoyage

  10 September 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Why global contributions to Wikipedia are so unequal

  8 September 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The geography of knowledge has always been uneven. Some people and places have always been more visible and had more voices than others. Reposted [...]

• What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?

  8 September 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Broadband affordability

  7 September 2014

  Authors: 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. [...]

• Geographies of Google Search

  5 September 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Open Data Index

  3 September 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Data This graphic illustrates the 2013 Open Data Index published by the Open Knowledge Foundation. The index has been calculated for 70 countries, based [...]

• Innovation Hubs in Sub-Saharan Africa

  20 August 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  This third stage of the project centres on the specialised services being nurtured in Sub-Saharan Africa’s innovation hubs. Innovation hubs have been variously termed [...]

• Bottom of the pyramid labour (BoP) in Sub-Saharan Africa

  20 August 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  The second stage of the project will focus on ‘bottom of the pyramid’ labour (BoP) in Sub Saharan Africa. The term ‘BoP’ is increasingly [...]

• Geotagging reveals Wikipedia is not quite so equal after all

  18 August 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Wikipedia is often seen as a great equaliser. But it’s starting to look like global coverage on Wikipedia is far from equal. Reposted from [...]

• What is stopping greater representation of the MENA region?

  6 August 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• How well represented is the MENA region in Wikipedia?

  22 July 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the Arab World

  14 July 2014

  Authors: 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 [...]

• The new Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality research group

  23 June 2014

  Authors: Mark Graham

  Note: This post was originally published on Mark Graham's blog on 23 June 2014 7:49 pm. It might have been updated since then in [...]

• Who represents the Arab world online?

  1 October 2013

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Mapping the uneven geographies of information worldwide

  11 June 2013

  Authors: 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 [...]

• Why the digital gig economy needs co-ops and unions

  15 September 2016 openDemocracyUK

  
  

  Millions of people are joining the digital gig economy, attempting to outbid one another for increasingly precarious bit-work. We need to challenge that culture, say Mark Graham and Alex Wood.

• 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.

• 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.

• Digital work marketplaces impose a new balance of power

  25 May 2016 New Internationalist

  
  

  Can we reverse the diminishing power of workers in a world of hyper-geographically mobile work? asks the OII's Mark Graham (Long Read: 8 min).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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'.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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

• Studi: Barat Monopoli Wawasan Tentang Dunia Lewat Wikipedia

  16 September 2015 Suara.com

  
  

  Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on Wikipedia edits.

• 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

• 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.

• 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'.

• 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.

• 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.

• Wikipedia world view ‘shaped by editors in the West’

  15 September 2015 Phys.org

  
  

  Coverage of research by Mark Graham and team on regional differences in Wikipedia editing.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• 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.”

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Geotagging reveals Wikipedia is not quite so equal after all

  18 August 2014 The Conversation

  
  

  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.

• 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.

• What was the last book you read? Wikipedia wants to know Read more: http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/what-was-the-last-book-you-read-wikipedia-wants-to-know#ixzz3C4zUCbHX Follow us: @TheNationalUAE on Twitter | thenational.ae on Facebook

  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.

• Infographic: A freelance working week revealed

  14 May 2014 Wired.co.uk

  
  

  The patterns of work of the world's freelancers has been mapped by an OII team led by Mark Graham and Stefano de Sabbata as part of a research project on virtual labour.

• 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.

• 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.

• Internet Mapping

  23 April 2014 Nikkei

  
  

  The Japanese business newspaper highlights Mark Graham's research. (Japanese original)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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".

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• ‘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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Age of Internet Empires: One Map With Each Country’s Favorite Website

  4 October 2013 The Atlantic

  
  

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Google Vs. Facebook: A Map Of Global Conquest

  4 October 2013 NPR

  
  

  NPR take a look at the OII maps of global internet use.

• Facebook or Google: which website rules the world?

  3 October 2013 The Guardian

  
  

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Wikipedia ‘Edit Wars’: The most hotly contested topics

  3 June 2013 NBC News online

  
  

  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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Where is Africa on the Internet?

  1 April 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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)

• 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.

• 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".

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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. 

• 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. 

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• 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."

• 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."

• 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.

• 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".

• 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".

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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?

• 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.

• “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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.'

• 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.