Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Submitted by: Scott Sanders to the Online Interaction Seminar, COM 632Y, Spring 2006, Dr. Sorin A. Matei, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907. Summary: Social categorization, which is at the heart of SIDE theory, may often prove to be an incredibly powerful…
Noshir Contractor, one of the most prominent reserchers in the field of social networks and communication technologies shared during his visit at Purdue U.’s Perspectives on Communication and Technology Graduate Seminar his most recent research on organizing the web information space utilizing…
The metaphor of organization-as-networks directs attention to the dynamic nature of the process of organization as an emergent, evolving, and dynamic. At a global level, theorists have engaged with different forms of interdependencies, whether social, political or economic, as exemplified by Castells’…
Lorraine Kisselburgh This week, Noshir Contractor introduces a rich array of information in discussing communication networks, new grid infrastructures, and social networking tools that can be leveraged to strengthen our communities – whether social, work, virtual, or even “exoticâ€. What follows are…
Aligning with this week’s discussion of the credibility of information on wikipedia and other online sources, I ran across this project, funded by the MacArthur Foundation, on credibility and trust in Internet settings, called the “Credibility Commons“. Interestingly enough, this research project…
The social shaping of knowledge through collaborative authoring tools I grew up in a household with a set of encyclopedias prominently displayed in the family room and frequently used as a resource– for our education, to consult during family discussions about issues,…
For many, the democratic and liberatory promise of the internet lies in the potential to allow collaboration, interaction, and exchange of information, ideas, and resources at a scale not otherwise possible (or at least, not highly probable) in a simple offline world.…
An interesting and predictible spin on the location aware concept… Museums Begin Offering Cell Phone Tours – Yahoo! News Museums Begin Offering Cell Phone Tours By DAN GOODIN, Associated Press Writer Fri Mar 17, 2:56 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO – Art lovers,…
We were discussing the other day in class (COM 250H) the Net neutralityprinciple, which if violated would destroy the great philosophical underpinning of the Internet: its edge-to-edge openness and simplicity. The same The Economist, which attacked the issue with great gusto in…
The US vs. Google lawsuit is looming. At first sight the issue at stake is the US government’s right to demand US media companies to provide data about the aggregated habits of US consumers. In the background, the issue seems to be…
Drawing on the earlier notion of electronic propinquity as postulated by Korzenny (1978), the role of several factors like communication skills, bandwidth, information complexity, mutual directionality, to name a few, all play a part in determining the amount of propinquity achieved in…
Pew’s Internet and American Life Project released a new report today, “The Strength of Internet Ties,” confirming previous research that suggests that Internet use “supplements, rather than replaces, the communication people have with others in their network.” Their release states: The Pew…
The collection of readings regarding communication and new media provides looks forward (Carey, 1998; Neas, 2005; Fox, Anderson, & Rainie, 2005) as well as backwards (Cato, 1982; Marvin, 1998) in our adoption of new technologies and their effect on our lives. From…
Many themes resonate and intersect from the readings and in our discussion this week- and several find echo in the words of my son, who, eternally fascinated by the fact that it takes me a year to find my question and then…
The chapter “The Sad Irons†in Robert Caro’s The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power illustrates not only the interplay between culture and technology but also the consequences of lacking connection to a technological network (Caro, 1982). Due to geographical…
In Steve Jones‘ presentation today on “New New Media”, he discussed emerging trends in Internet usage of students and faculty on University campuses, as well as some of the newest new media trends — including gaming, virtual reality, and immersive virtual environments…
The Internet Archive — http://www.archive.org/ , including the WayBackMachine, is a site to behold. Check out their movie section… Sorin