Matthew Zook

Matthew Zook was born to mother Bonnie Zook and father Gordon Zook.Zook, Matthew."Acknowledgements." The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms, and Local Knowledge. Blackwell, 2005. pg xiii

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley - Dept. of City and Regional Planning. 2000{{cite web|url=http://www.zook.info/MatthewZook-cv.pdf |title=Matthew A. Zook : CV |publisher=Zook.info |accessdate=2013-11-29}}
• M.R.P., Cornell University (Ithaca, New York) 1995.
• B.A., Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana) 1989

Much of Zook's early work is on how economic factors have influenced and shaped the internet and the ICT industry (Information, Communications and Technology). He discusses how the infrastructure of the ICT industry was constructed upon an existing network of Venture Capital [grounded capital]. This research showed how despite the image of the internet being a tool of egalitarian communication and commerce, the resources of production were creating a digital divide.Zook, Matthew. "The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture capital, dot-coms, and local knowledge". Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

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His work as an economic geographer contributed to a greater understanding of the expansion and impact of Walmart in USA. Zook also created a heat map generated from the data being collected from the Price of Weed project, which was featured in Wired.{{cite web|url=https://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/08/st_infoporn_pot/|author=Bird, Cameron|title=Infoporn: The Price of Pot|date=August 30, 2011|work=Wired}}

His more recent research looks at the GeoWeb. Although the transition was gradual, what seems to have started with mapping content creationZook, Matthew. "The web of production: The economic geography of commercial internet content production". PION LTD, 2000, Environment and Planning A, volume 32, issue 3, pg. 411-436 has turned into a fascination with mapping not only user generated content, but specifically geo-coded data.Graham, Mark and Matthew Zook. "Visualizing Global Cyberscapes: Mapping User-generated Placemarks." Routledge, 2011, Journal of Urban Technology, vol. 18, issue 1, pg. 115-132

• University of Kentucky Provost's Outstanding Teaching Award (2013){{cite web|author= |url=http://uknow.uky.edu/content/provosts-outstanding-teaching-awards-presented-today |title=Provost's Outstanding Teaching Awards Presented Today | UKNow |publisher=Uknow.uky.edu |date= |accessdate=2013-08-09}}

• Maps made by Matthew Zook{{cite web|url=http://www.floatingsheep.org/p/in-news.html |title=In the News |publisher=floatingsheep |date= |accessdate=2013-08-09}}

In 2006, Zook provided expert testimony about the Geography of Internet Pornography in a federal court case American Civil Liberties Union vs. Alberto Gonzales{{cite web|url=https://www.aclu.org/images/asset_upload_file341_29137.pdf |title=American Civil Liberties Union et al v. Alberto R. Gonzales |publisher=Aclu.org |accessdate=2013-11-29}}

• In 2007 and 2013 Matthew Zook won a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Estonia.
• In 2015, Zook was named the Kentucky State Geographer by Governor Steve Beshear.{{cite web|url=http://newmapsplus.uky.edu/new-maps-plus-home-kentucky%E2%80%99s-state-geographer |title=New Maps Plus: Home of Kentucky's State Geographer |accessdate=2016-03-05}}

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