Mark Graham
@geoplace.bsky.social
Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Director of @towardsfairwork.bsky.social
Publications: www.markgraham.space
Studies: Digital Economies, Digital Geographies, Economic Geography, Gig Economy, Data Work, AI Production Networks, Cities
Friends and colleagues in Oxford, join us for this event at the end of the month.
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October 13, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Friends and colleagues in Oxford, join us for this event at the end of the month.
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/unvei...
festivalofsocialscience.com/events/unvei...
Across every side, glass-like insect forms creep. Not natural but synthetic hybrids, they act as metaphors for the hidden systems that power AI. Like insects in an ecosystem, they expose dependencies we rarely notice.
September 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Across every side, glass-like insect forms creep. Not natural but synthetic hybrids, they act as metaphors for the hidden systems that power AI. Like insects in an ecosystem, they expose dependencies we rarely notice.
AI Products: You use it. It uses you.
Invisible Labour: Invisible labour, indispensable skill.
Data Assets: Extraction fuels machine learning.
Footprint: Digital demand, ecological debt.
Capital and Ownership: Cash walls. Closed doors.
Rules and Voids: Governance gaps widen risks.
Invisible Labour: Invisible labour, indispensable skill.
Data Assets: Extraction fuels machine learning.
Footprint: Digital demand, ecological debt.
Capital and Ownership: Cash walls. Closed doors.
Rules and Voids: Governance gaps widen risks.
September 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
AI Products: You use it. It uses you.
Invisible Labour: Invisible labour, indispensable skill.
Data Assets: Extraction fuels machine learning.
Footprint: Digital demand, ecological debt.
Capital and Ownership: Cash walls. Closed doors.
Rules and Voids: Governance gaps widen risks.
Invisible Labour: Invisible labour, indispensable skill.
Data Assets: Extraction fuels machine learning.
Footprint: Digital demand, ecological debt.
Capital and Ownership: Cash walls. Closed doors.
Rules and Voids: Governance gaps widen risks.
AI often looks smooth and solved, like a Rubik’s cube. But turn it in your hands and each side reveals something hidden.
September 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
AI often looks smooth and solved, like a Rubik’s cube. But turn it in your hands and each side reveals something hidden.
Discover our latest article, “Planetary Sex Markets,” now published in Porn Studies. It draws on research led by the brilliant Robbie Warin and Chloe Gott.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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August 6, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Discover our latest article, “Planetary Sex Markets,” now published in Porn Studies. It draws on research led by the brilliant Robbie Warin and Chloe Gott.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The German version of our book is now out, and is getting some pretty good reviews in the German press. Here's a few of them:
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-feeding-t...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-feeding-t...
June 4, 2025 at 8:34 AM
The German version of our book is now out, and is getting some pretty good reviews in the German press. Here's a few of them:
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-feeding-t...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/ki-feeding-t...
Proud of my @towardsfairwork.bsky.social team, who were finalists at the University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Awards yesterday
May 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Proud of my @towardsfairwork.bsky.social team, who were finalists at the University of Oxford Vice-Chancellor’s Awards yesterday
Our book has been spotted as a featured read on the shelves of the Berlin House of Representatives.
May 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Our book has been spotted as a featured read on the shelves of the Berlin House of Representatives.
There are no rights ‘in’ cyberspace
Just got the hard copy of my chapter in 'Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology' edited by Ben Wagner, Matthias C. Kettemann, Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann, and Susannah Montgomery.
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
Just got the hard copy of my chapter in 'Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology' edited by Ben Wagner, Matthias C. Kettemann, Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann, and Susannah Montgomery.
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
May 1, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There are no rights ‘in’ cyberspace
Just got the hard copy of my chapter in 'Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology' edited by Ben Wagner, Matthias C. Kettemann, Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann, and Susannah Montgomery.
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
Just got the hard copy of my chapter in 'Research Handbook on Human Rights and Digital Technology' edited by Ben Wagner, Matthias C. Kettemann, Kilian Vieth-Ditlmann, and Susannah Montgomery.
www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...
Here's a preview of the Korean cover for Feeding the Machine. Out soon with New Wave Media.
English version here: canongate.co.uk/books/5234-f...
English version here: canongate.co.uk/books/5234-f...
April 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Here's a preview of the Korean cover for Feeding the Machine. Out soon with New Wave Media.
English version here: canongate.co.uk/books/5234-f...
English version here: canongate.co.uk/books/5234-f...
The introduction to my MIT Press book 'Digital Work in the Planetary Market' (with Fabian Ferrari) has now been translated into Russian:
ecsoc.hse.ru/data/2025/03...
Here's the original in English (open access): idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/server/api/c...
ecsoc.hse.ru/data/2025/03...
Here's the original in English (open access): idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/server/api/c...
April 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The introduction to my MIT Press book 'Digital Work in the Planetary Market' (with Fabian Ferrari) has now been translated into Russian:
ecsoc.hse.ru/data/2025/03...
Here's the original in English (open access): idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/server/api/c...
ecsoc.hse.ru/data/2025/03...
Here's the original in English (open access): idl-bnc-idrc.dspacedirect.org/server/api/c...
Human Development and the Data Revolution is out today.
A new book that I edited with Sanna Ojanperä and Eduardo López.
You can download a free and open access version here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
Or buy a copy at all good bookshops.
A new book that I edited with Sanna Ojanperä and Eduardo López.
You can download a free and open access version here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
Or buy a copy at all good bookshops.
March 27, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Human Development and the Data Revolution is out today.
A new book that I edited with Sanna Ojanperä and Eduardo López.
You can download a free and open access version here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
Or buy a copy at all good bookshops.
A new book that I edited with Sanna Ojanperä and Eduardo López.
You can download a free and open access version here: fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
Or buy a copy at all good bookshops.
Colleagues at @geographers.bsky.social conference #AAG2025 #AAG
On Thursday, I'll be presenting about the @towardsfairwork.bsky.social action research project. Join us at 12:50 in the session on activist research in digital geographies and platform urbanism: aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
On Thursday, I'll be presenting about the @towardsfairwork.bsky.social action research project. Join us at 12:50 in the session on activist research in digital geographies and platform urbanism: aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
March 25, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Colleagues at @geographers.bsky.social conference #AAG2025 #AAG
On Thursday, I'll be presenting about the @towardsfairwork.bsky.social action research project. Join us at 12:50 in the session on activist research in digital geographies and platform urbanism: aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
On Thursday, I'll be presenting about the @towardsfairwork.bsky.social action research project. Join us at 12:50 in the session on activist research in digital geographies and platform urbanism: aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
Colleagues at @geographers.bsky.social conference #AAG2025 #AAG
Tomorrow, Matt Zook and I will be previewing some of our research about geographic biases in ChatGPT's responses. Join us at 16:10 aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
Tomorrow, Matt Zook and I will be previewing some of our research about geographic biases in ChatGPT's responses. Join us at 16:10 aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
March 25, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Colleagues at @geographers.bsky.social conference #AAG2025 #AAG
Tomorrow, Matt Zook and I will be previewing some of our research about geographic biases in ChatGPT's responses. Join us at 16:10 aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
Tomorrow, Matt Zook and I will be previewing some of our research about geographic biases in ChatGPT's responses. Join us at 16:10 aag.secure-platform.com/aag2025/soli...
Use this code for 30% off Human Development and the Data Revolution, out next week!
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March 19, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Use this code for 30% off Human Development and the Data Revolution, out next week!
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My department, the @oii.ox.ac.uk is hiring a Departmental Research Lecturer In AI, Government & Policy
Details here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/vacan...
Details here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/vacan...
March 18, 2025 at 10:43 AM
My department, the @oii.ox.ac.uk is hiring a Departmental Research Lecturer In AI, Government & Policy
Details here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/vacan...
Details here: www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/vacan...
A nice review of Feeding the Machine by Rosalie Waelen in Capital & Class:
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March 10, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A nice review of Feeding the Machine by Rosalie Waelen in Capital & Class:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Colleagues at #RightsCon2025, do join: "Reskilling for tomorrow: navigating tech transformations and future jobs in the Global South"
I'll focus on the @towardsfairwork.bsky.social initiative to certify AI production networks to improve the jobs of data workers.
rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightscon-...
I'll focus on the @towardsfairwork.bsky.social initiative to certify AI production networks to improve the jobs of data workers.
rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightscon-...
February 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Colleagues at #RightsCon2025, do join: "Reskilling for tomorrow: navigating tech transformations and future jobs in the Global South"
I'll focus on the @towardsfairwork.bsky.social initiative to certify AI production networks to improve the jobs of data workers.
rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightscon-...
I'll focus on the @towardsfairwork.bsky.social initiative to certify AI production networks to improve the jobs of data workers.
rightscon.summit.tc/t/rightscon-...
A preview of the cover of my new open access edited book with Sanna Ojanperä and Eduardo López.
Human Development and the Data Revolution dives into how big data is reshaping development and raising crucial ethical questions. It explores the power and pitfalls of data-driven change.
Human Development and the Data Revolution dives into how big data is reshaping development and raising crucial ethical questions. It explores the power and pitfalls of data-driven change.
February 1, 2025 at 6:59 AM
A preview of the cover of my new open access edited book with Sanna Ojanperä and Eduardo López.
Human Development and the Data Revolution dives into how big data is reshaping development and raising crucial ethical questions. It explores the power and pitfalls of data-driven change.
Human Development and the Data Revolution dives into how big data is reshaping development and raising crucial ethical questions. It explores the power and pitfalls of data-driven change.
A sneak preview of the Taiwanese cover for Feeding The Machine.
December 16, 2024 at 2:42 PM
A sneak preview of the Taiwanese cover for Feeding The Machine.
Last year, we did something similar with unions in India: creating a pamphlet and posters that we jointly distributed.
December 5, 2024 at 8:33 AM
Last year, we did something similar with unions in India: creating a pamphlet and posters that we jointly distributed.
In the Philippines, @towardsfairwork.bsky.social worked with two gig worker unions to develop a pamphlet answering frequently asked questions that workers have.
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fair.work/en/fw/public...
December 5, 2024 at 8:18 AM
In the Philippines, @towardsfairwork.bsky.social worked with two gig worker unions to develop a pamphlet answering frequently asked questions that workers have.
fair.work/en/fw/public...
fair.work/en/fw/public...
November 29, 2024 at 4:09 PM
I got to spend the morning in the map room at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office as part of the FCDO’s technology and geopolitics roundtable. Fascinating to be sat next to these old instruments of the colonial gaze whilst discussing the UK’s future place in the world.
November 27, 2024 at 12:32 PM
I got to spend the morning in the map room at the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office as part of the FCDO’s technology and geopolitics roundtable. Fascinating to be sat next to these old instruments of the colonial gaze whilst discussing the UK’s future place in the world.