Interview from ‘Shaping the New World of Work’ conference
A short video interview that I did about digital labour markets at the ETUI conference on ‘Shaping the New World of Work’.
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Semantic Cities: Coded Geopolitics and the Rise of the Semantic Web.
In order to understand how the city’s contested political contexts are embedded into its digital layers, we traced how the city is represented on online platforms that house facts about much of the world. We did this by analyzing representations… Continue Reading
The Domestic Turn: Business Process Outsourcing and the Growing Automation of Kenyan Organisations (now in print)
I’m happy to announce a new paper to come out of our previous project studying Development and Broadband Internet Access in East Africa. The project looked at the role that changing connectivity in East Africa was having on three sectors of the… Continue Reading
Hubs vs. Incubators: What Are the Pain Points for Impact and Efficiency?
With tech entrepreneurship on the rise across Africa, efforts to support the agenda are evolving and diversifying. There has been quite a bit of debate—sometimes of the heated kind—about whether incubators, hubs, labs, and other support organizations work. In my… Continue Reading
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 earlier (and abridged) version of a longer paper that I… Continue Reading
New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia
I am very happy to announce that a new paper that I have written with Ralph Straumann and Bernie Hogan is now available: Graham, M., Straumann, R., Hogan, B. 2015. Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation… Continue Reading
“Towards a study of information geographies” A full list of our maps
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
New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information
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
New job working with the Geonet team at the Oxford Internet Institute: ‘Researcher in ICTs, Geography and Development’
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
Measuring the Impacts of Connectivity
Huge resources are invested into plans and projects that are designed to connect some of the billions of people who still lack any sort of digital connectivity. Yet, it is surprising that there is a relatively sparse evidence-base about how greater access… Continue Reading
