Matt Curinga

Matthew Curinga, EdD

Matthew Curinga is an Associate Professor in the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education at Adelphi University. His research interests include social media, software affordance theory, technology and culture, and philosophy of education.14

Curinga earned his EdD in Instructional Technology and Media and MA in Computing and Education from Columbia University. He also holds a BA in English from Colby College.1

Some of Curinga's notable publications include:

• "New materialist approaches to the study of language and identity: Assembling the posthuman subject" in Curriculum Inquiry35
• "Critical analysis of interactive media with software affordances" in First Monday35
• "The MOOC and the Multitude" in Educational Theory35

He has co-authored numerous book chapters and articles in academic journals and has been invited to present at research conferences across the United States.1

Curinga is actively involved in developing nycschools, a free open source software library written in Python that enhances the NYC open data ecosystem for analyzing school data.2 He is also co-founder of Zero Day Camp, a non-profit that teaches critical computer science education.2