Why the Space Economy Needs “Spice
When Jeff Bezos announced that he would build a 50,000-satellite space data center, Musk immediately plussed with a million-satellite call.
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An academic ChatGPT needs a better schooling
Originally published in the Times Higher Education If you know how ChatGPT works, you won’t be surprised to learn that AI detection
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Quantum computers are kaleidoscopes: unusual metaphors explain the unusual better
The article was originally published in The Conversation Quantum computing is like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates: You never know what you’re
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Transforming Warfighting: The Case for AI and Software-Centric Strategies
Please cite Matei, S. A. (2022-2025). Transforming Warfighting: The Case for Software-Centric Strategies. Matei.org/I Think Blog. https://matei.org/ithink/2024/05/27/doing-more-with-less-a-data-model-driven-methodology-for-efficient-war-fighting-platforms-design/ Since time
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What is a strategic technology?
What are the necessary and sufficient factors that lead to the emergence and use of war-winning strategic technologies? The following
Read MoreWhat should a strategist know? A competency-based education program for strategic thinkers and doers
In my role as an Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Purdue University, I partnered with two colleagues
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Disinformation is a “Big Lie” that contradicts Common Sense Asking For Faith Alone
In the digital era, “discourse power” is real power. Disinformation has become a preferred method of confounding the adversary and
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Can international trade instigate the next great conflict?
A potential favoring factor for the invasion of Ukraine and the threats made of China to occupy Taiwan could be
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EUNOMIA: TRUST BEFORE YOU LIKE SOCIAL MEDIA MESSAGES
WHAT IS, HOW and WHY you should join EUNOMIA? Two years ago, the European Union Horizon 2020 program awarded EUNOMIA,
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Should we regulate Facebook? Ask the moms.
An experiment by Tromholt Morten from the University of Copenhagen published in Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking suggests that people
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DC Conference on Social Media and Regulation
On Friday May 24, 2019 I organize in collaboration with the French Laboratory of Excellence in Creative Industries, the ICA preconference
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Social Media Analysis Online Class for Liberal Arts Majors
In collaboration with the Online Masters’ Program in Strategic Communication, I launched the Social Media Analytics Class, which will be
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The generative dilemma of the Internet
This is an introduction to a set of core concepts related to Internet communication for the Course COM 251 Information,
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What is the Internet? What does the Internet do? Why is it an “inter-net” and not just a simple “net? An introduction and tutorial
This is a tutorial on a set of core concepts related to Internet communication for my courses at Purdue University. For
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Did social media elect Donald Trump?
Donald Trump’s social media campaign is known for its virulence, but relatively less was said about its virality. Trump had
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Toward deciphering the social media genome: big data and computational social science may explain social embriology
Nothing seems more random to the naked eye than the babble of online exchanges. Are the posting patterns on Wikipedia
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Practice Capital Concept Applied through Social Network Analysis to the C-Span Video Archive
A new concept, practice capital, which extends the concept of social capital to collaborative projects is proposed in my chapter
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KredibleNet Workshop at Stanford U – Most intriguing topics and active interactions on Twitter
Crowdsourcing and social media trust emerged to be the most Twitter-discussed topics related to the second Kredible Net workshop on Trust,
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Principles, tips, advice, and ideas for designing, creating, growing, maintaining, or using online – virtual communities
A list of principles for designing on-line communities created by Dr. Sorin A. Matei and his students registered in various versions
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Individualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social Media: The Case of Wikis and Wikipedia
This is the title of the opening theoretical chapter of Francesca Comunello’s edited book “Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for
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Virtual Sociability: From Community to Communitas book sees virtual space as permanent, conflict ridden initiation ritual (free download, Smashwords, Kindle, Amazon,PDF, .mobi, ebook)
To what degree can the human exchanges we observe online be called “sociability”? In other words, do these exchanges amount
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Is 2011 the worst tornado season ever? Historical tornado statistics suggest near record spike in a declining trend (KML, map, pictures)
The devastating series of tornadoes, of which the F-5 (maximum intensity) event that hit Joplin, Missouri left in its wake
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Abbottabad, the exact location of the compound where Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with American Navy Seals (Update Videos)
Following a tip received by CIA in August 2010, the US intelligence community determined that Osama Bin Laden is located
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Deciphering the social media genome: Toward an ecology of social roles in online collaborative spaces via Visible Symbiosis
Nothing seems more random to the naked eye than the babble of online exchanges. Are the posting patterns on Wikipedia
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The social impact of social media: creator or destroyer of social capital?
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Social
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Idols of the forum (Idolii forului) book introduces Romanian publishing to 2d code universe
Our second 2d book, Idolii forului – Idols of the Forum, came out a week ago in my native country,
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Ubimark connects print and digital media via 2D codes and iPhone app
Cell phones may seem like a distraction when reading, but our latest project, Ubimark books, can now be paired with
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Ubimark covered by major online sites: Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus
Over the last few days my project, Ubimark, which turns print books such as Around the Word in 80 Days
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Visible Effort: A Social Entropy Methodology for Managing Computer-Mediated Collaborative Learning
Abstract A theoretically-grounded learning feedback tool suite, the Visible Effort (VE) Mediawiki extension, is proposed for optimizing online group learning
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Communication as social form: an autoecological perspective
Simmel – Image via Wikipedia by Sorin Adam Matei Professor, Purdue University citation: Matei, S A (2019). Communication as social
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Francis Bacon’s Four Idols Summary and the complete text of Novum Organum
Summary of Francis Bacon’s New Organon theory of the Four Idols of Knowing In Book I of the New Organon
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Virtual Omaha
Map of Omaha Beach German fortifications (blue dropets) laid over the American operational map for June 6, 1944 (misaligned due
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Localizing the Internet
How can we conceptualize the relationship between technological and social change at the local level? More specifically, what conceptual tools
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SIDE Theory, Small World Networks, and Smart Mob Formation: A Beginners Guide
Submitted by: Scott Sanders to the Online Interaction Seminar, COM 632Y, Spring 2006, Dr. Sorin A. Matei, Purdue University, West
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