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Overview

Matthew Zook is affiliated with the University of Kentucky in the United States. Their research predominantly lies within the Social Sciences, with a focused contribution in subfields including Transportation, Sociology and Political Science, Information Systems, Economics and Econometrics, and Epidemiology.

The primary topics covered in Matthew Zook's work encompass Urban Transport and Accessibility, Human Mobility and Location-Based Analysis, Blockchain Technology Applications and Security, Transportation Planning and Optimization, Data-Driven Disease Surveillance, COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing, and FinTech, Crowdfunding, and Digital Finance.

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Matthew Zook include:

  • Mapping the uneven geographies of digital phenomena: The case of blockchain, 2021, Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes
  • Blockchain financial geographies: Disrupting space, agency and scale, 2022, Geoforum
  • Initial coin offerings: Linking technology and financialization, 2020, Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • COVID-19 is spatial: Ensuring that mobile Big Data is used for social good, 2020, Big Data & Society
  • Moving the 15-minute city beyond the urban core: The role of accessibility and public transport in the Netherlands, 2023, Journal of Transport Geography

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Matthew Zook include:

  • Ate Poorthuis
  • Michael H. Grote
  • Michael McCanless
  • Age Poom
  • Olle Järv

The research appears consistently in a number of publication venues where Matthew has multiple appearances, such as:

  • Big Data & Society
  • Environment and Planning A Economy and Space
  • Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • Environment and Planning B Urban Analytics and City Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Volunteered Geographic Information and Crowdsourcing Disaster Relief: A Case Study of the Haitian Earthquake

    Matthew Zook;Mark Graham;Taylor Shelton;Sean Gorman

  • The ‘actually existing smart city’

    Taylor Shelton;Matthew Zook;Alan Wiig

  • Beyond the geotag: situating ‘big data’ and leveraging the potential of the geoweb

    Jeremy W. Crampton;Mark Graham;Ate Poorthuis;Taylor Shelton

  • Augmented reality in urban places: contested content and the duplicity of code

    Mark Graham;Matthew Zook;Andrew Boulton

  • Social media and the city: Rethinking urban socio-spatial inequality using user-generated geographic information

    Taylor Shelton;Ate Poorthuis;Matthew Zook

  • The geography of the Internet industry : venture capital, dot-coms, and local knowledge

    Matthew A. Zook

  • Mapping DigiPlace: Geocoded Internet Data and the Representation of Place

    Matthew A Zook;Mark Graham

  • Ten simple rules for responsible big data research

    Matthew Zook;Solon Barocas;danah boyd;Kate Crawford;Kate Crawford

  • The creative reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the privatization of cyberspace and DigiPlace

    Matthew A. Zook;Mark Graham

  • Grounded capital: venture financing and the geography of the Internet industry, 1994–2000

    Matthew A. Zook

  • The Web of Production: The Economic Geography of Commercial Internet Content Production in the United States:

    Matthew A Zook

  • Mapping the data shadows of Hurricane Sandy: Uncovering the sociospatial dimensions of ‘big data’

    Taylor Shelton;Ate Poorthuis;Mark Graham;Matthew Zook

  • Placemarks and waterlines: Racialized cyberscapes in post-Katrina Google Earth

    Michael Crutcher;Matthew Zook

  • Old Hierarchies or New Networks of Centrality? - The Global Geography of the Internet Content Market

    Matthew A. Zook

  • The knowledge brokers: venture capitalists, tacit knowledge and regional development

    Matthew A. Zook

  • Augmented Realities and Uneven Geographies: Exploring the Geolinguistic Contours of the Web:

    Mark Graham;Matthew Zook

  • NEW DIGITAL GEOGRAPHIES: INFORMATION, COMMUNICATION, AND PLACE

    Matthew Zook;Martin Dodge;Yuko Aoyama;Anthony Townsend

  • Everyday space–time geographies: using mobile phone-based sensor data to monitor urban activity in Harbin, Paris, and Tallinn

    R. Ahas;A. Aasa;Y. Yuan;M. Raubal

  • Towards a study of information geographies: (im)mutable augmentations and a mapping of the geographies of information

    Mark Graham;Stefano De Sabbata;Matthew A. Zook

  • Code/Space: Software and Everyday Life

    Matthew Zook

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark Graham
Mark Graham King's College London
Tony H. Grubesic
Tony H. Grubesic University of California, Riverside
Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford Microsoft (United States)
Rob Kitchin
Rob Kitchin National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Alyssa A. Goodman
Alyssa A. Goodman Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Larissa Hjorth
Larissa Hjorth RMIT University
danah boyd
danah boyd Microsoft (United States)

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