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Aug 11, 2021

An Open Letter to Sociology Faculty

Many of us working outside of the academy have been truly affirmed by the displays of faculty support for pursuing non-academic careers during this year’s ASA meeting. Incidentally, we had been working on a writeup and guide (organized and led by Dr. Sam Jaroszewski) to help faculty help their students: …

Sociology

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An Open Letter to Sociology Faculty
An Open Letter to Sociology Faculty
Sociology

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Jul 11, 2021

Writing and Sharing DIGITAL DIVISIONS

It’s hard to believe a year has passed since I published Digital Divisions, my first sole-authored book. Weirder still to think that I published it during a pandemic. …

Book Publishing

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Writing and Sharing DIGITAL DIVISIONS
Writing and Sharing DIGITAL DIVISIONS
Book Publishing

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May 8, 2021

Why I Still Write

It was a frigid fall morning in Upstate New York. The seven of us unloaded ourselves from the van our teacher had rented and we spilled out into a parking lot outside of one of the libraries at Syracuse University. I remember looking up at the brick building in awe…

Research

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Why I Still Write
Why I Still Write
Research

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Jan 18, 2021

TechnoSoc: Sociologists of Digital Technology

So what, exactly, is this 800+ online community of tech-focused social scientists you’ve been hearing about? We, the administrators of TechnoSoc: Sociologists of Digital Things (SDT), wanted to share with you what we do, what members get out of it, and how it works. There’s also a lot of new…

Social Science

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TechnoSoc: Sociologists of Digital Technology
TechnoSoc: Sociologists of Digital Technology
Social Science

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Dec 31, 2020

Matt’s Favorite Pubs 2020

Around this time last year I shared a list of articles and books I read over the last 12 months — writing that really shaped my thinking about human behavior. It was so much fun (and so much better than listing things I was proud of about myself…I’m bored even…

Sociology

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Matt’s Favorite Pubs 2020
Matt’s Favorite Pubs 2020
Sociology

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Dec 7, 2020

5 Tips for Sociologists Who Want to Study Digital Technology Use

Thanks to Connor Gilroy, Andrew Lindner, Paul Morgan, CJ Pascoe, Amber Tierney, and Nga Than for feedback. Sociology is increasingly wading into the study of digital technology use. As a graduate student, I remember searching for terms like “digital” or even “technology” and next to nothing would come up in…

Sociology

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5 Tips for Sociologists Who Want to Study Digital Technology
5 Tips for Sociologists Who Want to Study Digital Technology
Sociology

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Published in The Startup

·Oct 8, 2020

Why Your Company Needs Social Scientists

They’re uniquely equipped to map how users interface with digital technology. — The tech industry has always had a curious relationship with social scientists. As a PhD student in sociology in 2010, I remember hearing professors discuss the “Xerox Parc days”: starting in the late 1970s, anthropologists helped technologists encounter their machines in more natural habitats beyond the lab. Since then, social…

Social Science

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Why Your Company Needs Social Scientists
Why Your Company Needs Social Scientists
Social Science

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Sep 1, 2020

How stereotypes can color teachers’ digital expectations for their students

Schools that rely on remote learning during the pandemic are trying to ensure that all kids have the devices and internet bandwidth they need. While important, it takes more than everyone having comparable equipment and working WiFi for all children to get an equal shot. In my new book based…

Digital Divide

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How stereotypes can color teachers’ digital expectations for their students
How stereotypes can color teachers’ digital expectations for their students
Digital Divide

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Jun 11, 2015

How We Created a Video Production-Centered Online Course on Social Inequality

We designed our first online course that uses student videos as a driving feature of the class. The semester just ended. Time for reflection! I’ve decided to write some reflections on running an online course on Social Inequality (Sociology) that I co-designed and taught with Andrew Penner here at UC-Irvine…

Online Classes

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How We Created a Video Production-Centered Online Course on Social Inequality
How We Created a Video Production-Centered Online Course on Social Inequality
Online Classes

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Apr 11, 2015

[Your rad question goes here]: Why hackathons can be fun for junior scholars.

So I’m going to preface this with the fact that I’m co-hosting an academic-ish hackathon on Monday at 1pm (PST). It will be wildly fun and thought-provoking and we will be crowdsourcing #alloftheknowledge. (Please join!) But why can these things be fun and helpful? First of all, one of the…

Dmlcommons

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[Your rad question goes here]: Why hackathons can be fun for junior scholars.
[Your rad question goes here]: Why hackathons can be fun for junior scholars.
Dmlcommons

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Matt Rafalow

Matt Rafalow

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sociology phd. tech researcher. author. digitaldivisions.org

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