Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
I have been reading Jenkins‘ Convergence Culture and I ran into this jungle of Star Wars fan movies: http://www.theforce.net. Noteworthy (according to Jenkins): Evan Mather Although I’ve known of this genre for some time I never realized how many sites and amateur…
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…
Buzztracker – World News – 2007-09-08
Art, Technology and Death: A Love Story – Newsweek Society – MSNBC.com Truly, Madly, Deeply Theresa Duncan created acclaimed videogames. Jeremy Blake was a digital-art pioneer. They were talented, successful and in love. And then they committed suicide. How the technology that…
How can we conceptualise the relationship between technological and social change at the local level? More specifically, what conceptual tools have we got at our disposal to study the emergence of new Internet-related forms of local sociality?
Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age Edited By: Kirk St.Amant, Texas Tech University, USA Chapter X: Cultural Cognitive Style and the Web: Toward a Theory and Practice of Web Design for International Users / Anthony Faiola and Sorin…
I got a friendly email reminding me that there is (intelligent) life in the wiki universe…. Top 7 Alternatives to Wikipedia | OEDb Touting itself as “the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit”, its no wonder that Wikipedia has garnered so much…
Image via Wikipedia The idea that cultures and societies stay the same is put again to rest by this little piece of news about the increase of the divorce rate in China. WP: Barriers to divorce fade in China – washingtonpost.com Highlights…
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,…
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…