Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Purdue University Fall 2017 Meeting time: Tuesday – Thursday, 12 – 1:20 PM, BRNG 2275 Office hours: BRNG 2140, 2:15 – 4 PM T-Th and by appointment Instructor: Sorin Adam Matei, smatei at purdue edu According to the site Alexa.com, which tracks…
Filicudi e Lipari (Photo credit: CyboRoZ) Lipari School on Computational Complex Systems announces its 2012 annual session. Novel data mining research and modeling of complex techno-socio-economic systems will be presented. According to the call: Two kinds of participants are welcome. Students: Participants…
Description The course is a guide to the emerging field of educational and scholarly theories and practices that use networked computational resources and platforms to promote learning and research. It will investigate how technologies and the practices associated with them might generate…
This is the title of the opening theoretical chapter of Francesca Comunello’s edited book “Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for Personal and Professional Relationships“. The chapter is the product of my collaboration with my former PhD student, Robert Bruno, now Assistant Professor…
Marc Smith, cyber sociologist, product developer, Connected Action Chief Scientist, and leader of the Social Media foundation will visit the West Lafayette Purdue campus between September 22-23 and will give a talk about one of his most important projects, NodeXL, on Thursday,…
A very bright and concise way of explaining the economic implications of the peer-review process Open science, Freedom of Information and the Big Journal monopoly | by Martin Robbins @mjrobbins | Science | guardian.co.uk Peer-review is a privatized industry in which public…
To what degree can the human exchanges we observe online be called “sociability”? In other words, do these exchanges amount to any meaningful type of social organization? Are they more than the mere froth of collective emotion discharging its energy with a…
Next fall I will teach the Online Interaction Seminar at Purdue University. The class is listed as 47566 – COM 63200 – 001 and it will meet on Tuesday – Thursday from 1:30 pm to 2:45 pm PM. This is a fun…
An ambitious Social Netwok Analysis site… The World Wide Web (WWW) has changed how humans interact; for some scholars, we now live in the “Age of the Network”. As online populations grow and the quantity and quality of interactions improve with new…
Nothing seems more random to the naked eye than the babble of online exchanges. Are the posting patterns on Wikipedia user pages or the answers offered to Q&A sites ruled by any discernible configurations? Do users engage in predictable posting/answering behaviors? More…
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Elihu Katz, Paul Lazarsfeld, and Gabriel Tarde have already said that media are profoundly social. Newspapers have been read at breakfast for almost…
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University bySorin Adam Matei Of the couple dozen theories that aim to explain how mass media impact society, how many of them are still valid today, when…
Does the old fashioned newsroom still matter? Image via Wikipedia This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Agenda setting theory was proposed in the early 1970s by Maxwell McCombs and…
According to this paper, programs that are most central in the hiring network (in terms of outdegrees or indegrees?), are the most pretigious. The winners are below…. This research examines the prestige of doctoral degree programs in communication based on a network…
How do we predict social behavior on social media? Shepperd and Taylor propose Expectancy Theory… The paper is also interesting for the connection it makes between group and personal expectations. I wonder, however, if the authors thought through the consequence of no…
Image via Wikipedia What is formula for calculating critical mass in social groups of smaller scales? The problem of collective action is that each member of a group wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she “free rides,” reaping…
Image via Wikipedia Wikipedia articles that are controlled by a small group of editors that coordinate their work closely seem to be of higher quality. This is one of the main suggestions made by Kraut an Kittur, whose work was previously featured…
Image via Wikipedia 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…
Wikipedia has become an increasingly organized bureacracy, with rules and norms that are more complex and performance according to studies presented in the last year by Robert Kraut and his students (Taking up the mop, Identifying Future Wikipedian Administrators and Don’t look…
On Wikipedia it matters who you are and how you did it, not what you did. How does large-scale social production coordinate individual behavior to produce public goods? Hardin (1968) denied that the creation of public goods absent markets or the State…
Wikimedia maintains this extensive and valuable list of academic papers dedicated to academic research that focuses on Wikipedia (such as our own Ambiguity and conflict in the Wikipedian knowledge production system Wikipedia:Wikipedia in academic studies – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
At Wikimania I sat on a panel with Ruidiger Glott who presented a paper on the first multilingual survey of Wikipedia contributors which had the full support of Wikimedia, the Foundation that finances Wikipedia. 65% of respondents self-described as readers, and 35%…
Aniket Kittur is the author of several very interesting papers about inequality of contribution on Wikipedia. His website hosts a comprehensive list of papers, including one on the rise of bourgeoisie on Wikipedia, which we have used in a number of our…