Communicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces

November 24, 2009 Sorin Adam Matei

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Three Very interesting papers by an interesting team at University of Washington that has done great work in analyzing Wikipedia’s policies.

Formalization and Community Investment in Wikipedia’s Regulating Texts: The Role of Essays

We presented this poster at the ACM Design of Communication conference from October 5th-8th, 2009.

Abstract | Poster

Conference Presentations

Negotiating with Strangers

This presentation was given at the Association of Teachers of Technical Writing conference on March 12th, 2009.

Slides

Knowledge Work in Virtual Spaces

This presentation was given at the Conference on College Composition and Communication from March 11-14th, 2009.

Slides

via Communicative Practices in Virtual Workspaces.

Michael Nielsen on notability in Wikipedia (mndoci.com)
Volunteers Log Off as Wikipedia Ages – WSJ.com (stoweboyd.com)
When things don’t go as planned, charity and a healthy fast food alternative (ptbcooking.blogspot.com)

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Sorin Adam Matei

Assistant Vice President for Partnerships in Strategic Defense Innnovation and Professor of Communication at Purdue University, Director of the FORCES initiative leads research teams that study the relationship between technological and social systems using big data, simulation, and mapping approaches. He published papers and articles in Journal of Communication, Communication Research, Information Society, National Interest, and Foreign Policy. He is the author or co-editor of several books. The most recent is Structural differentation in social media. He also co-edited Ethical Reasoning in Big Data,Transparency in social media and Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets: Theory and Methods (Computational Social Sciences) , all three the product of the NSF funded KredibleNet project. Dr. Matei's teaching portfolio includes technology and strategy, online interaction, and digital media analytics classes. A former BBC World Service journalist, his contributions have been published in Esquire and several leading Romanian newspapers. In Romania, he is known for his books Boierii Mintii (The Mind Boyars), Idolii forului (Idols of the forum), and Idei de schimb (Spare ideas).

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