Hi, my name is Matt. I'm a UX researcher. I have experience working in both higher education and product development.
I post video essays about pop culture, design, and technology.
This channel is dedicated to providing free, open-access educational materials in the fields of communication, media and cultural studies, pop culture studies, and UX research.
The opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the values and opinions of where I work, etc.
I found your channel through your “professor’s EDC” video and had no idea you taught at APSU! I did some GTA work there during grad and that’s what led me to pursue a career in academia. I’d love to chat more about your experiences and I sent you a friend request on LinkedIn.
I haven’t posted in a long while, BUT I have gotten a lot of tattoos since this was posted: backpiece (done). Added panther/2 cobras to my stomach (both Becca Lerner) other knee is done. And a few pieces here and there. Currently working on finishing my legs. If I get a chance and some motivation at some point, I’ll try to dust the channel off and post an update video.
3:46 "I worked too much- that tends to happen when you view your job as a calling and not just an occupation." Man, I could really relate to that statement. Thank you for saying that.
do u think pop culture and internet culture is different? like maybe a subset of each other but i feel like the internet has impacted our generation way more differently than any forms of media and platforms ever had. we are constantly using and exposed to the internet, we have tiktok, vlogs, reddit, twitter, fandom and stan culture, memes, edits, discord, snapchat, musically, dance and music trends, self improvement videos, viral videos that come and go so fast. i just think its a very different category and also it deserves its own field of study
Hi Matt, In your video on quitting your job, you mentioned you might make a video on turning one's CV into a resume. Is this the video? Or, is there another video that might be helpful in trying to do said task?
We live in Pittsburgh now. We only lived in Ann Arbor for a year. I SHOULD have gotten something at Name Brand (really want a dragon from Julian). Now, it's a 4-hour drive, but it's on the list.
2:00 Lmao, just last night my buddy told me "academia is full of people that think they are the smartest people in the world and deserve high salaries for it" and this just nails it. 4:14 if those jobs 1. aren't what they wanted, 2. pay less 3. are less prestigious 4. less interesting 5. whatever Yea, its less than. The rest is cope.
@@gisousalkhi Sure, that’s not what this video was about though. Back when I was faculty, I would have happily made a follow up video focusing on that, but I’m at CMU as a AI researcher these days, so I’m not actively making videos anymore (not on my personal channel at least). Best of luck.
Democracy. People vote to be better off financially or otherwise, and the only way for them to better themselves in a democracy is to vote to worsen the circumstances of "others." Democracy fragments a nation, ruins society and eventually collapses it. It happens over and over again. Continuously. We are ruled by trash. Government is trash. It is culture vs society. Culture robs you of individual freedom, privacy, resources, and eventually integrity. A ruling establishment is behind all cultures and it requires governing bodies - states, churches, and corporations and uses correlated body fixated narcissists, sociopaths, and psychopaths to front, manage, and inevitably ruin a culture by the decadece of the inevitable correlating body fixated gynocentrics and homosexuals while the ruling establishment is building up another culture somewhere else to profit from. Culture is like a recurring bitch. Society is based on voluntary interaction. If the politicians - that society voted for - actually worked to solve our problems, they would indeed disolve their own profession. With weaponised currencies, radical nationalism, and religion, they prey on the poor people's needs, and the rich people's fears, dividing and conquering the people while dividing power amongst themselves and consolidating a system with a well armed security detail, police, military, and a bureucracy that is nearly impenetrable and works in effect for the totalitarian new world order. Government by democracy is an orchestrated battlefield of ideologies where the people vote out of greed and to limit the rights of others. While the power seemingly shifts from the political left to right and visa versa, all people's rights are eroded, and an ever consolidating and expanding political power structure and establishment is empowered. Conquest achieved by the Ruling Elite. Democracy is the worst idea ever. Just ask Socrates if you don't believe me. Oh, I almost forgot; people voted to kill him for speaking out against democracy. Democracy is dystopic. The Ruling Establishment is a cult.
To create memes or to locate them? If the latter, Reddit is great. If the former, I have a video on my channel somewhere about using a few different tools to make original memes/other content.
Yeah, I’d check out Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World and then Understanding Fandom + Henry Jenkins’ usually posts update versions of syllabi online. I’d give those a look too. Super helpful.
As a Marxist writer, I’m thinking of making video essays for RU-vid and looked up how to do it using Keynote and somehow I stumbled across probably one of the only other Keynote tutorials done by somebody at least friendly to Marxism, so that was cool. I don’t give a subscription to how-to videos usually but this one I did. I appreciate it. I am hoping to give a look into the rural Midwest and organizing in these areas. Being that they are mostly white, conservative communities, it can be hard to make en roads with labor, anti-racist and anti-capitalist views, and ideas here, but it is possible. Building class consciousness is important everywhere if you want class solidarity.
Hi Matt! This video was super helpful to me. I noticed you haven't posted in a while, but I was wondering how your transition is going? Any chance of an update video? Thank you for all the great information on your site.
Thank you! I got a new UX research position focusing on AI just recently. It's really interesting/great. Over the last year or so, I've been trying to spend less and less time editing videos/making content. After 3 years of working full time and making videos several times a week, video content started to feel less like a hobby and more like a job. Especially so when I was keen on making videos about UX research/design. It felt like I had no break from work on weekends. If that makes any sense. Hope you're well! And thank you!!!
@@UXmatt That is great news - congrats on your new position. I totally understand this - I had a RU-vid channel that I greatly enjoyed, but I started my doctoral program and decided it was all just too much to keep going at the same time. Maybe someday I'll go back to it? No matter what, thank you for your content! I'm reading the books you recommended. I'm thinking I may transition down the road into UX research/design as well from being a librarian. You have inspired me!
