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Overview

Mark Graham is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom and has a substantial body of research primarily situated within the social sciences. Their work intersects multiple subfields including sociology and political science, education, marketing, general health professions, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's recent papers address various aspects of the gig economy, platform urbanism, and labor migration. Notable publications include:

  • "Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa" (2020, Competition & Change)
  • "Regulate, replicate, and resist - the conjunctural geographies of platform urbanism" (2020, Urban Geography)
  • "Migration and Migrant Labour in the Gig Economy: An Intervention" (2022, Work Employment and Society)
  • "Fissures in algorithmic power: platforms, code, and contestation" (2021, Cultural Studies)
  • "The Fairwork Foundation: Strategies for improving platform work in a global context" (2020, Geoforum)

Their research topics span:

  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Sharing Economy and Platforms
  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Taxation and Compliance Studies
  • Evaluation of Teaching Practices
  • Innovative Teaching Methods
  • Career Development and Diversity

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research include Fabian Ferrari, Kelle Howson, Alessio Bertolini, Funda Ustek-Spilda, and Richard Heeks. These collaborations reflect a network of scholars focused on related themes of labor, platforms, and social change.

Mark Graham has published books with The MIT Press and Pluto Press eBooks. Their works include Digital Entrepreneurship in Africa (2020) and Geographies of Digital Exclusion (2022), which combine to enrich literature on digital economies and social inequalities.

The primary publication venues where they feature most often include:

  • CBE-Life Sciences Education
  • Frontiers in Education
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education

Their academic contributions demonstrate an interdisciplinary approach, engaging with social sciences and education alongside digital transformation and economic geography.

Best Publications

  • miR-122 regulation of lipid metabolism revealed by in vivo antisense targeting.

    Christine Esau;Scott Davis;Susan F. Murray;Xing Xian Yu

  • Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy:

    Alexander Wood;Mark Graham;Vili Lehdonvirta;Isis Hjorth

  • Retinal ischemia: mechanisms of damage and potential therapeutic strategies.

    Neville N Osborne;Robert J Casson;John P.M Wood;Glyn Chidlow

  • Digital labour and development: impacts of global digital labour platforms and the gig economy on worker livelihoods.

    Mark Graham;Isis Hjorth;Vili Lehdonvirta

  • Volunteered Geographic Information and Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief: A Case Study of the Haitian Earthquake

    Matthew Zook;Mark Graham;Taylor Shelton;Sean Gorman

  • Beyond the geotag: situating ‘big data’ and leveraging the potential of the geoweb

    Jeremy W. Crampton;Mark Graham;Ate Poorthuis;Taylor Shelton

  • Augmented reality in urban places: contested content and the duplicity of code

    Mark Graham;Matthew Zook;Andrew Boulton

  • Workers of the Internet Unite? Online Freelancer Organisation Among Remote Gig Economy Workers in Six Asian and African Countries

    Alex J. Wood;Vili Lehdonvirta;Mark Graham

  • Where in the World Are You? Geolocation and Language Identification in Twitter

    Mark Graham;Scott A. Hale;Devin Gaffney

  • Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy:

    Alexander Wood;Mark Graham;Vili Lehdonvirta;Isis Hjorth

  • Geography and the future of big data, big data and the future of geography:

    Mark Graham;Taylor Shelton

  • SDSS-IV MaNGA IFS Galaxy Survey - Survey Design, Execution, and Initial Data Quality

    Renbin Yan;Kevin Bundy;David R. Law;Matthew A. Bershady

  • Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa:

    Mohammad Amir Anwar;Mark Graham

  • Mapping DigiPlace: Geocoded Internet Data and the Representation of Place

    Matthew A Zook;Mark Graham

  • Risk of symptomatic Covid-19 among frontline healthcare workers

    Long H. Nguyen;David Alden Drew;Amit D. Joshi;Chuan-Guo Guo

  • The creative reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the privatization of cyberspace and DigiPlace

    Matthew A. Zook;Mark Graham

  • Changes in symptomatology, reinfection, and transmissibility associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7: an ecological study.

    Mark S Graham;Carole H Sudre;Anna May;Michela Antonelli

  • Mapping the data shadows of Hurricane Sandy: Uncovering the sociospatial dimensions of ‘big data’

    Taylor Shelton;Ate Poorthuis;Mark Graham;Matthew Zook

  • The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders:

    Vili Lehdonvirta;Otto Kässi;Isis Hjorth;Helena Barnard

  • NEOGEOGRAPHY AND THE PALIMPSESTS OF PLACE: WEB 2.0 AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF A VIRTUAL EARTH

    Mark Graham

  • Time machines and virtual portals: The spatialities of the digital divide

    Mark Graham

  • Uneven Geographies of User-Generated Information: Patterns of Increasing Informational Poverty

    Mark Graham;Bernie Hogan;Ralph K. Straumann;Ahmed Medhat

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthew Zook
Matthew Zook University of Kentucky
Aldons J. Lusis
Aldons J. Lusis University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Heeks
Richard Heeks University of Manchester
Neville N. Osborne
Neville N. Osborne University of Oxford
William H. Dutton
William H. Dutton University of Oxford
J. Mark Brown
J. Mark Brown Cleveland Clinic
Judith A. Berliner
Judith A. Berliner University of California, Los Angeles
Nicholas O. Davidson
Nicholas O. Davidson Washington University in St. Louis
Joerg Heeren
Joerg Heeren Universität Hamburg
Carl D. Langefeld
Carl D. Langefeld Wake Forest University

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