Posts tagged: oii

New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia

7 September 2015 0

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 Labour and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia. Annals of the Association of American Geographers. 105(6) 1158-1178. doi:10.1080/00045608.2015.1072791.(pre-publication version here) The paper… Read More: New publication – Digital Divisions of Labor and Informational Magnetism:… »

Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full collection of maps

17 August 2015 0

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 Mapping of the Geographies of Information.” Geo: Geography and Environment, doi:10.1002/geo2.8. (HTML version here) A more… Read More: Towards a study of information geographies. Here is our full… »

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 job working with us at the Oxford Internet Institute: ‘Researcher in ICTs, Geography and Development’

22 July 2015 0

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. We are looking for a full-time Researcher to work with Professor Mark Graham on the… Read More: New job working with us at the Oxford Internet Institute:… »

Changing Internet Access

14 July 2015 0

The Importance of Being Connected The Internet is ever more important to contemporary economic, social, and political activity. Thus, it is important to map who and where is (and isn’t) connected and can (or cannot) participate. Changing Internet Penetration by World Region In our last post, we primarily discussed how the number of people with Internet… Read More: Changing Internet Access »

The Geographies of Science

1 July 2015 0

[iframe src=”https://stefano.oiilab.org/interactive/scientific_documents/” width=”100%” height=”620″ scrolling=”no”] Description This graph illustrates the number of journal articles produced around the world. Data The data used in this graph are from Thomson Reuters’ Web of Science, which “provides access to the world’s leading citation databases” and “includes current and retrospective journal and proceedings data in the sciences, social sciences,… Read More: The Geographies of Science »