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“The digital language divide”– our research featured in The Guardian
The Guardian has just published a long piece about The Digital Language Divide. It features a lot of our work into internet and information geographies. In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen this many...
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The World Online
Internet Population cartogram (click for larger version) Description This map shows the total number of Internet users in a country (size of the country) as well as the percentage of the population...
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Changing Internet Access
The Importance of Being Connected The Internet is ever more important to contemporary economic, social, and political activity. Thus, it is important to map who and where is (and isn’t) connected and...
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The Archipelago of Disconnection
The archipelago of disconnection (click for larger version) The two previous blog posts in this small series discussed Internet population and growing Internet access worldwide. In this post we turn...
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Growing Digital Divides? Measuring Regional Changes in Internet Penetration
Internet penetration between 2009 and 2013 per world region (click for larger version) Our previous mappings showed that access to the internet is highly uneven, leaving large swaths of the world in a...
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互联网地理：数据阴影和数字分工
I recently had the opportunity to give a talk to a visiting Chinese delegation to Oxford. The hosts kindly translated my entire slide deck into Chinese. I’ve therefore uploaded a copy of the...
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New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism:...
Network of Wikipedia edits between world regions, normalised for each target region. The edges are coloured according to the source region. Percentages denote self-edits (not depicted). I am very happy...
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New Paper: Information Geographies and Geographies of Information
The latest issue of New Geographies is now out, and contains an exciting collection of papers: My contribution to the issue is titled ‘Information Geographies and Geographies of Information.’ It is an...
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Kapuścinski Public Lecture –“Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in...
I recently had the opportunity to give a Kapuścinski public lecture titled “Uneven Geographies of Power and Participation in the Internet Era.” You can watch the whole lecture at the link above. For...
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Geographies of Information Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (new publication)
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 African Technopolitan. 5 78-85. The...
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New publication: “Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The...
A special issue of the journal innovations has just been published. The issue focused on the topic of ‘digital inclusion’ and features a short piece that I wrote. Graham, M. 2014 Inequitable...
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Interview about the power of digital maps
I recently had the opportunity to participate in an interview about digital maps. The interview is in BBC Radio 4’s excellent ‘Digital Human’ programme on Maps. In it, I speak about why maps...
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New paper published: ‘Where in the World Are You? Geolocation and Language...
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 Are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in...
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New paper: “Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information”
Some colleagues (Shilad Sen, Heather Ford, Dave Musicant, Oliver Keyes, Brent Hecht) and I have put together a paper for CHI on Barriers to the Localness of Volunteered Geographic Information. The...
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New paper – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers
Spatial distribution of placenames in the GeoNames gazetteer Spatial distibution of placenames in GeoNames included in the dataset of populated places with more than a thousand inhabitants, compared to...
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The hidden biases of Geodata
Geographic information underpins so much of what we do today on the internet. By knowing the location of a tweet, a profile, or any other user-entered information, we can build services and software...
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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 are user-generated and...
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The geography of Wikipedia edits
Wikipedia has a geography. This is something that my colleagues and I have explored previously in a variety of scholarship. For a new book on ‘Open Development’, my colleague Stefano De Sabbata and I...
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Mapping Twitter
I’ve been working with Antonello Romano to update some of our older research into the geography of Twitter. Above you can see some maps from a sample of about 2.5 million tweets collected worldwide...
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Hiring a Researcher at Oxford: Digital Entrepreneurship | Economic Geography...
We are recruiting a full-time Researcher to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) on a project that critically assesses the changing landscape of digital...
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New Publication: Engagement in the Knowledge Economy: Regional Patterns of...
We have a new publication out: Ojanperä, S., Graham, M., Straumann, R. K., De Sabbata, S., & Zook, M. (2017). Engagement in the knowledge economy: Regional patterns of content creation with a focus...
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Digital Hegemonies: The Localness of Search Engine Results
I have a new paper out in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers with Andrea Ballatore and Shilad Sen. In it, we ask (and empirically answer) questions about the the local-ness versus...
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Want to work with us at the Oxford Internet Institute? I’m hiring a Digital...
I am hiring a Digital Geographer to work with me at the Oxford Internet Institute for two years on a full-time contract (we’ll also consider part-time options for the right person). My existing...
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Who can access the internet?
This map shows internet penetration, i.e. the percentage of the population of countries that has accessed the internet within a 12 month period, from any device (click for full size). It is an update...
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World regions’ access to the internet
The previous post in this mini-series, Who can access the internet?, looked at internet penetration in country context. In this post, we compare world regions and their access to the internet. This box...
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Mapping the Availability of Online Workers
In a previous blog post, we’ve mapped the availability of online labour in 2016 [1] using the data provided by the Online Labour Index (OLI) measuring the utilization of online labour platforms [2]....
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