[seminario a BCN] Internet Geographies: Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour
Valentina B.
Information is the raw material for much of the work that goes on in the contemporary global economy, and there are few people and places that remain entirely disconnected from international and global economic processes. As such, it is important to understand who produces and reproduces, who has access, and who and where are represented by information in our contemporary knowledge economy. This talk discusses inequalities in traditional knowledge and information geographies, before moving to examine the Internet-era potentials for new and more inclusionary patterns. It concludes that rather than democratizing platforms of knowledge sharing, the Internet seems to be enabling a digital division of labour in which the visibility, voice and power of the North is reinforced rather than diminished.
Mark Graham is a geographer and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is a also the Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment. He has a PhD in Geography by University of Kentucky and he has just edited with William H. Dutton Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication Are Changing Our Lives (Oxford: OUP, 2014).
http://in3.uoc.edu/opencms_portalin3/opencms/en/activitats/seminaris/agenda/2014/agenda_029