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 Twitter. The Professional Geographer. 66(4). 568-578. (or access a… Continue Reading
I have published a short piece The Conversation that summarises some work that I carried out with two colleagues (Casper Andersen and Laura Mann) on visions of connectivity in East Africa, and why they matter. The article follows how the… Continue Reading
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 increasingly matter in our digital age, and… Continue Reading
To build on Vili’s earlier post about the geographies of virtual gold farming, I want to share a bit of our spatial analysis (conducted with the help of Claudio Calvino and Stefano De Sabbata) of the data we are using in… Continue Reading
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 Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access… Continue Reading
Update: Times, locations and links to abstracts now available. Please see listings below Our recent call for papers for two sessions at the 2015 Association of American Geographers meeting (Apr 21-25 2015) yielded an excellent response. We received a large… Continue Reading
I am very happy to announce that I paper that I co-authored with Matthew Zook has been awarded the Ashby Prize. The prize is presented by the journal Environment and Planning A for the most innovative papers published in the journal… Continue Reading
If you go to Rwanda and you’re interested in ICT and tech, chances are, you will soon pass through kLab, Kigali’s tech innovation hub. And so it was for me two months ago, when I started data collection for my… Continue Reading
Technologies of connectivity have changed beyond recognition in the last century. But, how have our imaginations of the effects of those technologies of connectivity changed? This is the question that we posed (and addressed) in a forthcoming paper that I… Continue Reading
Gold farming, game labour, playbor – these terms are used to refer to the harvesting of online game items, currencies, and characters with a view to selling them to earn income. As part of a new research project on online… Continue Reading
