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Sorin Adam Matei

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Com 559 Syllabus – Current Trends in Mass Communication Research – From Mass Media to Social Media

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…

Eastern Europeans among strongest social networkers, less concerned about privacy.

According to a recent European Union study, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Cyprus lead social networking pack in Europe, with more than 2/3rds of Internet users accessing social networking sites frequently. On the other hand, the same countries are less concerned about privacy…

Facebook down, outage of like button annoys web users

Image via CrunchBase Sept 23, 4 PM, EST: Facebook appears to be down. I have tried to access it several times in the last hour and it is beyond reach. The current message is that not even the DNS request can be…

Are social media or Web 2.0 definitions in the eye of the beholder?

  This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University bySorin Adam Matei Web 2.0 and social media core assumptions The popular concepts of social media and Web 2.0 hinge on the assumption that the…

Critical mass and willingness to pay for social networks

A very interesting paper on calculating critical mass and predicting explosion of interaction on social media sites. Image via Wikipedia Disagreement surrounds a formal definition of ‘critical mass’ and of the economic willingness to pay for membership in a social network. Our…

Three great examples of corporate policy guidelines for social media campaigns

Image via Wikipedia Chris Lake, at econsultancy, culled from the web several excellent examples of how big corporations train their empolyees to deal sith social media interactions. Here are just three examples: IBM Don’t pick fights, be the first to correct your…