Dr. Mark Graham		B.Sc. (WKU), M.Sc. (WKU), Ph.D. (Kentucky)
Telephone: +353-(0)1 896		email: mark.graham@tcd.ie
Postal Address: Department of Geography, Museum Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Republic of Ireland

 

Introduction:

My research generally centers on the economic, social, and spatial effects of technology. I am particularly interested in the multiplicity of attempts to implement development and reduce a 'digital divide' by altering relative economic distance and reconfiguring commodity chains in places on the global periphery. While much of my work has focused on such attempts within the context of the Thai silk industry, I am expanding my research to encompass a broader range of case studies, both small and large, that seek to reduce 'digital divides' in the Asia-Pacific region. The ultimate aim of this research is to better understand the variety of strategies employed to use cyber-presence to offset remote physical presence.

 

Research Interests:

Cyber-Geography, Globalization, Economic Geography, Transportation and Communications, Development, Southeast Asia

To see more about my teaching and research interests please visit http://geospace.co.uk/resume/resume.html

 

Further Research Interests:

Hybrid Urban Spaces and the Politics of Google Earth

My work on digital earths examines how physical places are ever more defined by, and made visible through, not only their traditional physical locations and properties, but also their virtual attributes and positionalities. Specifically, I am interested in how ubiquitous electronic representations of urban environments that are made possible by services such as Google Earth and Google Maps have the power to redefine, reconfigure, and reorder the cities that they represent.

Non-Proximate Transparency and Economic Reorganisation.

Novel ways of collaborating and pooling resources are being made possible by a new wave of Internet projects promoting transparency through commodity chains. The central element in these new projects is the ability of non-proximate transparency to effect patterns of consumption and economic flows. My work in this area thus examines how a variety of social networks and the ability of consumers to monitor distant nodes on production chains are reorganizing economic activities. My efforts centre on developing useful theoretical frameworks for the effects of non-proximate transparency, as well as detailed empirical studies on multiple transparency-promoting projects.