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SUMMARY:POLIS Department Seminar - Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of L
 abour: Who Creates and Controls the Digital City? - Dr Mark Graham\, Oxfor
 d Internet Institute
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DESCRIPTION:Digital information is the raw material for much of the work t
 hat goes on in the contemporary global economy\, and there are few people 
 and places that remain entirely disconnected from international and global
  economic processes. As such\, it is important to understand who produces 
 and reproduces\, who has access\, and who and where are represented by inf
 ormation in our contemporary knowledge economy. This talk discusses inequa
 lities in historical information geographies\, before moving to examine th
 e Internet-era potentials for new and more inclusionary patterns. It concl
 udes that rather than democratizing platforms of knowledge sharing\, chang
 ing connectivities appear to be enabling a digital division of labour in w
 hich the visibility\, voice and power of the North is reinforced rather th
 an diminished.
LOCATION: Room 119\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, C
 B3 9DT
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