Reimagining Internet Geographies: A User-Centric Ethnological Mapping of the World Wide Web

Wu, Angela Xiao; Taneja, Harsh

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“…The relative representation of tweets is still dominated by the Global North; yet, there are a few countries in the Global South rising in terms of tweets and digital representation. As an attempt to emphasize local user engagements as opposed to supply drive data, and by using dataset of the 1,000 most visited websites at three points in time (2009,2011,2013), Wu et al (2016) showed that the thickness of online regional cultures increased, which 'demonstrates a rise of the Global South along a decentralization or de-Americanization of the World Wide Web' (p. 321).…”

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Digital oases and digital deserts in Sub-Saharan Africa

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2016

Journal of Science &Amp; Technology Policy Management

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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate whether Sub-Saharan African countries are catching up with the rest of the world in terms of online usage. Online service usage is an important component of the discourse of the “digital divide”, an emblematic term for the inequality of information and communication technology access. Design/methodology/approach – This paper is a quantitative analysis of internet and Facebook penetration coupled with economic strength (GDP/capita), literacy and degree of rural population. Findings – The findings reveal a heterogeneous pattern with a few African countries being digital oases and close to European levels, whereas the majority of the countries are still digital deserts. A strong correlation is found between economic strength and internet penetration. A generalist picture that Sub-Saharan is on the trajectory of closing the digital divide is an imprecise reflection of the reality. Research limitations/implications – It is argued that instead of measuring supply-side data, which has been the trend till now, the use of demand-side elements such as online service usage tells more about digital inequalities between countries. Practical implications – The research encourages internet firms to open up their eyes for Sub-Saharan Africa as an investment opportunity with an untapped gap of online usage. Social implications – The three-billion internet users on the planet are unevenly spread and under-represented in Africa. By drawing a heterogeneous online usage landscape, digital policy can be accurately steered toward countries with the largest needs. Originality/value – There is a paucity of research going into the depth of online usage in Africa. The paper is a contribution to fill that gap.

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Digital oases and digital deserts in Sub-Saharan Africa

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2016

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“…In any event, returning to the study by Wu and Taneja (2015) we see that, with time, the websites of 'global' status have become fewer in number among the world's top 1000 sites, and we see language playing an increasing role over time. State policies promoting information and communication technologies are one factor here, and shared language another.…”

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“…But the Chinese web is not uniquely circumscribed by a wall of censorship, as some have argued; instead, it is mainly that Chinese citizens, like those of other nations, are primarily interested in content produced in China. Wu and Taneja (2015) have extended this analysis to argue that the 'thickening' of the web has changed over time. Whereas in 2009 a Global/ US cluster was predominant on the web and at the same time the largest, in 2011 it was overtaken by a Chinese cluster and there was no longer a Global/ US cluster but instead in second place was a US/ English cluster followed by a global cluster.…”

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“…Two exceptions are Waller (2011) who has examined information seeking by Australians, and Segev and Ahituv (2010) who provide a more global perspective. Wu and Taneja (2016) have more recently contributed to our understanding of attention paid to the world's top websites by grouping them by format and genre and in terms of their popularity.…”

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The Web as History : Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library.This book is published under a Creative Common 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Niels Brügger and Ralph Schroeder (eds. Table 5.2 Linear regression model explaining amount of country news mentions on BBC online 113 Table 5.3 Linear regression model explaining amount of country outlinks on BBC online 115 Table 6.1)Evaluation of the navigation and user interface of state websites 128 Table 7.1 Topics in three selected GeoCities neighbourhoods 149 Table 8.1 Direction and manifestation of ties in online networks 163 Table 8.2 Composition of sites (abortion stance) 167 Table 8.3 Composition of sites (site type) 167 Table 8.4 Top-20 sites ranked by Google, 2005 and 2015 169 Table 8.5 Network statistics 172 Table 8.6 Top-20 sites by indegree (full network) 176 Table 8.7 Top-20 sites by indegree (participant subnetwork) 178 Table 8.8 Top-20 sites by outdegree (full network) 179 Grant Blank is the Survey Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He is a sociologist specializing in the political and social impact of computers and the internet, the digital divide, statistical and qualitative methods, and cultural sociology. He is currently working on a project asking how cultural hierarchies are constructed in online reviews of cultural attractions. His other project links sample survey data with census data to generate small area estimates of Internet use in Great Britain. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. L iS t o f Co N t Ri B u to R S xivJonathan Bright is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. He is a political scientist specialising in political communication and computational social science (especially 'big data' approaches to the social sciences). His research concerns how people get information about politics, and how this process is changing in the internet era.

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“…Wu and Taneja (2016) showed, for example, that these clusters have changed quickly within the space of the past six years: whereas in 2009, a global/ US audience cluster was most central on the Web and at the same time the largest, in 2011 it was overtaken by a Chinese cluster (even if this was not the most central cluster), and there was no longer a global/ US cluster, but rather in second place was a US/ English cluster followed by a global cluster. By 2013, the same two clusters occupied the top two spots by size, but the global cluster (of websites that are not language specific, such as Mozilla and Facebook) had slipped to eighth place (India was ninth and Germany tenth), followed by a number of other clusters including sites in Japan and Russia, but also Spanish-language sites and those in Brazil and France.…”

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Social Theory after the Internet

2017

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Reimagining Internet Geographies: A User-Centric Ethnological Mapping of the World Wide Web

Abstract: We propose a new user-centric imagery of the

Cited by 30 publications

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Digital oases and digital deserts in Sub-Saharan Africa

Digital oases and digital deserts in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Web as History : Using Web Archives to Understand the Past and the Present

Social Theory after the Internet

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