BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Department of Sociology//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sociology.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:Department of Sociology - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20191009T0625Z-1570602346.6895-EO-14448-3@137.82.45.12 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260411T020710Z CREATED:20191007T174634Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191007T183306Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191105T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20191105T133000 SUMMARY: Cartographic Attributes of the Invisible: The Conjunctural Geograp hies of the Platform Economy DESCRIPTION: About The Speaker Mark Graham\, Professor of Internet Geograph y\, Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford Mark Graham is an econ omic geographer with an interest in how digital technologies and digitally- mediated practices effect economic and social inequalities. His research fo cuses on economic development\, labour\, power\, participation\, and repres entation.   Abstract Geographers have long been interested in […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
About The Speaker
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Mark Graham\, Professor of Internet Geograp hy\,
Oxford Internet Institute\, University of Oxford
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Mark Graham is an economic geographer with an interest in how dig ital technologies and digitally-mediated practices effect economic and soci al inequalities. His research focuses on economic development\, labour\, po wer\, participation\, and representation.

 

Abstr act

Geographers have long been interested in the spaces brought into being by the internet. In the early days of the Web\, digital technologies were seen as tools that could bring a heterotopic cyberspace into being: a place beyond space de-tethered from the material world. More recent framings instead see digital geographies as always-augmented\, hybri d\, and ontogenetic: integrally embedded into everyday life. Against that b ackdrop\, the talk presents findings from three large research projects abo ut digital platforms. First\, a large-scale digital mapping project that lo oks at how digital inequalities can become infused into our urban landscape s. Second\, a study about the livelihoods of platform workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Finally\, early results from a new action rese arch project (the Fairwork Foundation) designed to improve the quality of p latform jobs. In each case\, the talk explores why understanding the ways t hat platforms command digital geographies is a crucial prerequisite for env isioning more equitable digital futures.

 

This talk is co- sponsored by the Big Data and Computational Social Science research cluster and the Department of Geography at UBC.

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