In this series of blog posts, Vili Lehdonvirta writes about his thoughts and experiences at ISA 2014 in Yokohama, Japan. In this first part, he discusses labour market flexibilization and its implications to the study of online work. Last week,… Continue Reading
In this series of blog posts, Heather Ford documents the process by which a group of computer and social scientists are working together in a project to understand the geography of Wikipedia citations. Their aim is not only to better… Continue Reading
Digital Connectivity, Inclusion, and Inequality at the World’s Economic Margins AAG Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 21-25, 2015 (sponsored by the Development Geography Research Group) Organisers: Mark Graham and Chris Foster, University of Oxford We are in the throes of a… Continue Reading
OII research fellow, Mark Graham and DPhil student, Heather Ford (both part of the CII group) are working with a group of computer scientists including Brent Hecht, Dave Musicant and Shilad Sen to understand how far Wikipedia has come to… Continue Reading
This website has been built to serve as a home for the Connectivity, Inclusiveness, and Inequality (CII) group based at the Oxford Internet Institute. We are a multidisciplinary group of researchers interested in the difference that information and communication technologies… Continue Reading
For our inaugural discussion around “connectivity and inequality and inclusion” we decided to jump in the deep end and tackle the 600+ pages of Piketty’s much hyped “Capital in the Twenty First Century”. Undoubtedly this work tackles important historical accounts… Continue Reading