We are now hiring a researcher to work with us to investigate low-wage digital work being carried out in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Researcher in Development and Digital Labour Grade 7 (£30,434 to £37,394 per annum) The Oxford Internet… Continue Reading
After presenting our paper on the same theme at ICCG 2015 in Palestine, myself and Mark Graham are planning a session for the Association of American Geographers’ annual meeting in San Francisco during Spring 2016. The session aims to provide… Continue Reading
As part of our project on digital labour and development, Isis Hjorth, Mark Graham, Helena Barnard and I have been meeting and interviewing over a hundred people who do freelance work over the Internet, through platforms such as Upwork and… Continue Reading
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, and M. A. Zook. (2015) “Towards a Study of Information Geographies: (im)mutable Augmentations and a… Continue Reading
Our research group spends a lot of time mapping the internet and the digital information that flows within it. So we decided to attempt to bring together a lot of that work into a single (open access) paper: Graham, M.,… Continue Reading
I have just returned from the 7th International Conference on Critical Geography in Ramallah in the West Bank. The decision to hold the conference in Ramallah was a bold one (explained in more detail on the conference web site). I… Continue Reading
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 Institute is a leading centre for research into individual, collective and institutional behaviour on the Internet.… Continue Reading
Description This graph illustrates the number of journal articles produced around the world. Data The data used in this graph are from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, which “provides access to the world’s leading citation databases” and “includes current and… Continue Reading
We will be organising and contributing to a number of sessions at the Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG 2015) which will be held here in Oxford on 19-23 August, 2015. Of interest for those working at the intersection of… Continue Reading
UNESCO has just launched a study on Countering Online Hate Speech I have been working on in the past few months (in collaboration with Danit Gal, Thiago Alves, and Gabriela Martinez) which offers a global overview of the dynamics characterizing hate speech online… Continue Reading
