Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Cesar Hidalgo’s book, “Why information grows” is trying to untangle a very big issue by looking at a very simple problem (at least in appearance). How do small things (cities, economies, groups) get complex when most other things in nature tend to decay…
Social entropy theory and analysis applied to communication This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Social entropy theory is derived from Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication and it proposes that…
ScienceDirect – European Economic Review : Generalized entropy and the measurement of distributional change. Abstract: “The analogy between information theory and income distribution analysis is exploited to derive a number of measures of distributional change. These include not only counterparts of the…
Despite the fact that diverse and equal participation of members is considered to be the essence of true online communities, no compelling index has been proposed to measure the degree of diversity in terms of contributions of content to online social environments.…
I wonder how does this theory of reflexivity apply to Internet supported meta engines of all sorts? I must state at the outset that I am in fundamental disagreement with the prevailing wisdom. The generally accepted theory is that financial markets tend…
Very perceptive analysis and an elegant (albeit not very counterintuitive, right?) solution to Wikipedia’s woes: jettison it’s egalitarianism… The thermodynamics of Wikipedia || kuro5hin.org I thought about Wikipedia as a thermodynamic system. Some conclusions based on this trivial investment in the model:…