New publication: “Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South is Gaining Access But Lags in Local Content.”

6 November 2014 0

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 But Lags in Local Content. innovations 9(3-4). 17-34. The piece asks whether increasing Internet access… Read More: New publication: “Inequitable Distributions in Internet Geographies: The Global South… »

A Tech Innovation Hub in the Making: kLab and Its Many Roles and Stakeholders

2 November 2014 0

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 research on innovation networks in Sub-Saharan Africa. I had a clear strategy: Through interviews, I… Read More: A Tech Innovation Hub in the Making: kLab and Its… »

contrasting visions of connectivity between the colonial and contemporary moments

2 November 2014 0

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 wrote about last week: Graham, M., Andersen, C., and Mann, L. 2015. Geographies of Connectivity… Read More: contrasting visions of connectivity between the colonial and contemporary moments »

A World’s Panorama

5 October 2014 0

Building on our map of content in Flickr, this graphic tells a very similar story. Panoramio is smaller than Flickr, with about a tenth of its users, and only a fraction of its photos. Nonetheless, Panoramio plays an important role in online representations of places, as photographs on the site can be accessed as a… Read More: A World’s Panorama »

Mapping the economic geographies of knowledge-production and digital participation from Sub-Saharan Africa

1 October 2014 0

The first stage of the project aims to broadly understand the diversity of new practices in Sub Saharan Africa’s knowledge economy. We define the knowledge economy as a combination of IT-enabled services, the quaternary sector of the economy, and more informal processes and practices of IT-mediated information production that tend to get left out of… Read More: Mapping the economic geographies of knowledge-production and digital participation from… »

Gender and Social Networks

27 September 2014 0

Findings On the whole there isn’t a large disparity between men and women on the social networks represented here. The data indicate a total ratio of 1.05 males to every female. This more-or-less equal gender balance can be seen in the two largest social platforms, Facebook and YouTube, whose gender ratios are very close to the ratio in… Read More: Gender and Social Networks »