Mark Graham

Director

Mark Graham is the Director of the Fairwork project and is based at the Oxford Internet Institute.

He is also a Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, a Research Affiliate in the University of Oxford’s School of Geography and the Environment, a Research Associate at the Centre for Information Technology and National Development in Africa at the University of Cape Town, and a Visiting Researcher at Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung and Technische Universität Berlin.

Mark is an economic geographer with an interest in how digital technologies and digitally-mediated practices affect economic and social inequalities. His research focuses on economic development, labour, power, participation, and representation.

His recent books include Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI, The Digital Continent: Placing Africa in Planetary Networks of Work, Geographies of Digital Exclusion: Data and Inequality, The Gig Economy, Society and the Internet, and Digital Economies at Global Margins. You can find a full list of Mark’s publications here.