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Matías Dodel

Matías Dodel

Principal Investigator

Matías Dodel is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Fairwork Uruguay team and is responsible for the methodological design of the study, questionnaires, data analysis, and report writing.
Matías is Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU).

He is a Sociologist (PhD, M.A. & B.A.) and Psychologist (B.A.) who specialises in Information Society, Public Policy, Digital Inequality and cyber-safety.Matías is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences at Universidad Católica del Uruguay (UCU), where he leads the World Internet Project, DiSTO Project, and Kids Online`s Uruguayan Chapters.

He has worked as an independent consultant at UNICEF, and the National E-government and Information Society Agency (AGESIC) of the Uruguayan government Presidency, were he developed the official ICT surveys (EUTIC: 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019) in collaboration with the National Statistical Office.

Since completing his PhD at the University of Haifa, he has been studying the role digital inequalities play in digital citizenship and cyber-safety.

His publications include:

  • Dodel, M., Menese, P., & Trajtenberg, N. (2021). “Someone wants to connect with you”: Predicting Uruguayan kids’ replies to online friendship requests. Global Studies of Childhood. https://doi.org/10.1177/20436106211027576