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Mapping the Local Geographies of Digital Inequality in Britain

Jun 27, 2014

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in Mapping

Without detailed information about small areas we can’t identify where would benefit most from policy…
Past and Emerging Themes in Policy and Internet Studies

May 12, 2014

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in Social Data Science

It is simply not possible to consider public policy today without some regard for the…
The social economies of networked cultural production (or, how to make a movie with complete strangers)

Apr 28, 2014

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in Interviews, Tools

Looking at “networked cultural production”—ie the creation of cultural goods like films through crowdsourcing platforms—specifically…
The economic expectations and potentials of broadband Internet in East Africa

Mar 13, 2014

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in Development, Interviews

Were firms adopting internet, as it became cheaper? Had this new connectivity had the effects…
Unpacking patient trust in the “who” and the “how” of Internet-based health records

Mar 3, 2014

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in Governance & Security, Health, Wellbeing

Key to successful adoption of Internet-based health records is how much a patient places trust…
The challenges of government use of cloud services for public service delivery

Feb 24, 2014

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in Governance & Security, Interviews

One central concern of those governments that are leading in the public sector’s migration to…
How easy is it to research the Chinese web?

Feb 18, 2014

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in Methods, Politics & Government

The research expectations seem to be that control and intervention by Beijing will be most…
Mapping collective public opinion in the Russian blogosphere

Feb 10, 2014

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in Mapping, Methods, Politics & Government, Social Data Science

The Russian language blogosphere counts about 85 million blogs—an amount far beyond the capacities of…
Technological innovation and disruption was a big theme of the WEF 2014 in Davos: but where was government?

Jan 30, 2014

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in Politics & Government

The World Economic Forum engages business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape…
Edit wars! Measuring and mapping society’s most controversial topics

Dec 3, 2013

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in Mapping, Methods, Social Data Science

Although some topics are globally debated, like religion and politics, there are many topics which…
The physics of social science: using big data for real-time predictive modelling

Nov 21, 2013

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in Methods, Social Data Science

There are very interesting examples of using big data to make predictions about disease outbreaks,…
Verification of crowd-sourced information: is this ‘crowd wisdom’ or machine wisdom?

Nov 19, 2013

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in Social Data Science

The problem with computer code is that it is invisible, and that it makes it…