Knowledge Equity and Spatial Justice on Wikipedia
Video Playlist
Internet Geography
Talks discussing the spatial organization of the Internet, from social, economic, cultural, and technological perspectives.
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Good gig, bad gig: working conditions in the global digital gig economy
Recorded: 8 August 2018
Duration: 00:02:13
New research from the OII reveals poor working conditions for workers in the digital gig economy.
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Knowledge Equity and Spatial Justice on Wikipedia
Recorded: 20 July 2018
Duration: 00:55:32
Wikimania 2018, the annual global gathering of the Wikipedia community, took place in Cape Town in July. The keynote speaker on the first day was OII digital geographer Dr Martin Dittus, who presented new work produced with Professor Mark Graham.
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Rentier Capitalism: Taskers in the Precariat
Recorded: 10 March 2016
Duration: 00:31:35
Professor Guy Standing explains how the globalisation of labour and work has produced a global precariat
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Digitization And Work: Potentials and Challenges in Low-Wage Labor Markets
Recorded: 10 March 2016
Duration: 00:20:52
Professor Saskia Sassen discusses the need to develop social categories and logics for understanding technology.
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Digital Labour and Exploitation: It’s not a Done Deal
Recorded: 10 March 2016
Duration: 00:39:53
Dr Karen Gregory provides an overview of digital labour and exploitation
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Fragmented time and the UK social care sector
Recorded: 10 March 2016
Duration: 00:25:53
Professor Jill Rubery provides a case study of care work in the UK which demonstrates that although technology facilitates and heightens fragmented scheduling it is not the driving force in this sector.
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Divergent Temporalities: Polarisation or Marginalisation
Recorded: 10 March 2016
Duration: 00:21:18
Professor Kevin Doogan argues that technological change is not an autonomous process, which drives everything in its wake regardless of institutional, social or other aspects of life.
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Digital Jobs in the EU and Self-Employment in Developing Countries
Recorded: 10 March 2016
Duration: 00:21:26
Dr Brendan Burchell defines digital jobs, shows their prevalence in Europe and then investigates their quality highlighting that in most aspects digital jobs tended to be better quality apart from having higher levels of work intensity.
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Online Platforms, Diversity and Fragmentation
Recorded: 10 March 2016
Duration: 00:23:38
Dr Vili Lehdonvirta, uses survey data and interviews with workers to show the heterogeneity of backgrounds and outcomes for people working on online labour platforms and compares this to traditional manufacturing work.
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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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Stefano De Sabbata: The Illustrated Web
Recorded: 30 March 2014
Duration: 00:09:18
Stefano De Sabbata shares his visualizations (with Mark Graham) that reveal certain information / behavioral patterns on the Internet which have important political implications.