Digital Geographer at

the Oxford Internet Institute

Fabian Stephany

18/07/2017

The digital sphere promises to be a "democratic space",

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but at the same time, why do inequalities begin to emerge? 

Inequalities of

1. Opportunity between men and women,
2. Knowledge between regions,
3. Participation between countries.

Online content production is open to women and men,

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but why do we observe different outcomes between genders?

16 % women

30 % women

9 % women

Online knowledge is available from everywhere,

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but why is it unevenly distributed across places? 

The shared economy enables new economic perspectives,

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but why show some countries higher engagement than others?