Mark Graham

Mark Graham is the Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute, a Fellow at the Alan Turing 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. He leads a range of research projects spanning topics between digital labour, the gig economy, internet geographies, and ICTs and development.

His new book, co-authored with James Muldoon and Callum Cant, — Humans of AI: The Hidden Labour Behind Artificial Intelligence — was published by Canongate in 2024.

Before becoming an academic, he worked as a bartender in Manchester, worked on a factory assembly line (making microchips and remote controlled toys) in Germany, worked as a janitor, dishwasher, and carwasher in Kentucky, and delivered newspapers in Manchester, Berlin, and Stuttgart.