Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
“I want to be an individual, like anybody else” seems to be the new American vocation. With an uncanny ability to detect trends that most commentators ignore David Brooks spots in his artful Modesty Manifesto editorial the rise of expressive individualism. Considering his Bobos in Paradise, the book that…
Submitted by Christina Kalinowski on October 22nd, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog Abstract Individualism is highly valued in American culture, and its growing importance to American…
Submitted on November 26, 2007, to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Abstract: The widespread expansion of communication technology over the past century has resulted in a marked…
By Susan Huelsing Sarapin Submitted on October 22, 2006 to the On-Line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2006, Purdue University Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Introduction Today, people all over the world are connected, or “tethered†(Turkle,…
Nass (in conversation with Gunn, 2006) commented that the first sound a human being recognizes is the mother’s voice when it is in the womb. Other studies have revealed tentative findings of early literacy emerging in children whose parents read to them…