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The life and death of political news: using online data to measure the impact of the audience agenda
Editors must now decide not only what to publish and where, but how long it…
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Why global contributions to Wikipedia are so unequal
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in DevelopmentThe geography of knowledge has always been uneven. Some people and places have always been…
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What explains the worldwide patterns in user-generated geographical content?
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As geographic content and geospatial information becomes increasingly integral to our everyday lives, places that…
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Geotagging reveals Wikipedia is not quite so equal after all
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in DevelopmentWikipedia is often seen as a great equaliser. But it’s starting to look like global…
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Young people are the most likely to take action to protect their privacy on social networking sites
So are young people completely unconcerned about their privacy online, gaily granting access to everything…
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Monitoring Internet openness and rights: report from the Citizen Lab Summer Institute 2014
Informing the global discussions on information control research and practice in the fields of censorship,…
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What is stopping greater representation of the MENA region?
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Negotiating the wider politics of Wikipedia can be a daunting task, particularly when in it…
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Evidence on the extent of harms experienced by children as a result of online risks: implications for policy and research
If we only undertake research on the nature or extent of risk, then it’s difficult…
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How well represented is the MENA region in Wikipedia?
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There are more Wikipedia articles in English than Arabic about almost every Arabic speaking country…
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The sum of (some) human knowledge: Wikipedia and representation in the Arab World
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Arabic is one of the least represented major world languages on Wikipedia: few languages have…
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Economics for Orcs: how can virtual world economies inform national economies and those who design them?
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in EconomicsUnderstanding these economies is therefore crucial to anyone who is interested in the social dynamics…
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Facebook and the Brave New World of Social Research using Big Data
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What’s new about companies and academic researchers doing this kind of research to manipulate peoples’…