My research focus on technological change and shifting geographies of globalization.  This interest, however, does not over-privilege the technical aspects of technological change but embeds it in larger societal systems (i.e., politics, culture, regulation, etc.) which engender innovation and in turn are changed in a mutually constitutive process. 

I categorize my research into four broad topics.

Geography of e-commerce - How the use of IT and the Internet interacts with existing systems of economic production, distribution and consumption.

Zook, M. (2007). The New Old Thing: E-Commerce Geographies after the Dot-Com

Boom. In Geographies of the New Economy eds. Peter Daniels, John Beaverstock,

Michael Bradshaw and Andrew Leyshon. Routledge. Pp. 87-109.

Zook, M.A. (2005). The Geography of the Internet Industry: Venture Capital, Dot-coms and Local Knowledge. Blackwell Publishers.

Software created spaces (code-space) - How code, space and place interacts as people use of digital technologies (particularly mobile ones) to navigate through cities.  A particularly interesting example for me is the use of GoogleMaps and GoogleEarth.

Zook, M. and M. Graham. (2007). The Creative Reconstruction of the Internet: Google and the Privatization of Cyberspace and DigiPlace. GeoForum. Vol. 38(6). 1322-1343.

Crutcher, M. and M. Zook. (2009). Placemarks and Waterlines: Racialized Cyberscapes in Post Katrina Google Earth. GeoForum. Vol. 40. Issue 4.

Dodge, M., Kitchin, R. and M. Zook (2009). How does software make space? Exploring some geographical dimensions of pervasive computing and software studies (Guest Editorial). Environmental and Planning A. June Issue.

Internet geographies - where and how does the network of networks touch places and people.

Zook, M.A. (2001). Old hierarchies or new networks of centrality? The global geography of the internet content market. American Behavioral Scientist. (June). Vol 44. No. 10. 1679-1696.

Zook, M.A. (2000). The web of production: The economic geography of commercial internet content production in the United States. Environment and Planning A. Vol. 32. 411-426. 

Global air travel geographies - how do differences in history, position and power simultaneously draws some places nearer and makes others relatively more "distant" to the global economy.

Grubesic, T., Matisziw, T. and M. Zook (2008). Global Airline Networks and Nodal Regions. GeoJournal. 71(1), 53-66.

Zook, M and S. Brunn. (2006). From Podes to Antipodes: New Dimensions in Mapping Global Airline Geographies. Annals of the Association of America Geographers. September. 471-490.