Posts tagged: geonet

New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

14 August 2015 0

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., S. De Sabbata, and M. A. Zook. (2015) “Towards a Study of Information Geographies: (im)mutable Augmentations… Read More: New paper – Towards a study of information geographies:(im)mutable augmentations… »

Growing Digital Divides? Measuring Regional Changes in Internet Penetration

1 August 2015 0

Our previous mappings showed that access to the internet is highly uneven, leaving large swaths of the world in a state of disconnection. In this post, a different kind of visualisation allows us to focus on both the state and the strength of growth of internet access in different countries. From the visualisation, we can see that countries in… Read More: Growing Digital Divides? Measuring Regional Changes in Internet Penetration »

New paper – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography of Gazetteers

31 March 2015 0

Stefano and I have put together a short paper that will be forthcoming in Environment and Planning A. The paper focuses on the geography of geographic information, and builds on our work into the uneven geographies of information. It highlights how the very information systems that we use as ‘ground-truth’ are themselves characterised by significant biases. Abstract Gazetteers are… Read More: New paper – Mapping Information Wealth and Poverty: The Geography… »