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
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Is Social Media a Spiral of Silence Machine? From “Daily Me,” to Homophily Bias, Filter Bubbles, and Echo Chamber Effects
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin
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KredibleNet project awarded NSF grant, will study reputation in social media using network analysis
It’s official: The National Science Foundation hereby awards a grant of $179,594 to Purdue University for support of the project
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Digital Scholarship in Humanities and Social Sciences Course – 63200 Graduate Seminar at Purdue University Taught by Sorin Adam Matei
Description The course is a guide to the emerging field of educational and scholarly theories and practices that use networked
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A KML Historic and Literary Map of Pearl Harbor on the Morning of December 7, 1941 (7:55 am) According to Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy
Digital Humanities Showcase: Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy mapped Walter Lord’s meticulously documented book “Day of Infamy” recounts the trivia
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Principles, tips, advice, and ideas for designing, creating, growing, maintaining, or using online – virtual communities
A list of principles for designing on-line communities created by Dr. Sorin A. Matei and his students registered in various versions
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Individualist Motivators and Community Functional Constraints in Social Media: The Case of Wikis and Wikipedia
This is the title of the opening theoretical chapter of Francesca Comunello’s edited book “Networked Sociability and Individualism: Technology for
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The Visible Past / Open Context Loosely Coupled Model for Digital Humanities Ubiquitous Collaboration and Publishing: Collaborating Across Print, Mobile, and Online Media
Authors: Sorin Adam Matei, Eric Kansa, Nicholas Rauh. Abstract: The paper presents a platform for supporting academic collaboration and publishing
Read MoreUbimark.info Collects Soundscapes Recordings for World Listening Day (Map)
Bryan Pijanowski, the head of the Soundscape Ecology Project at Purdue University, and Sorin Adam Matei, the author of this
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Virtual Sociability: From Community to Communitas book sees virtual space as permanent, conflict ridden initiation ritual (free download, Smashwords, Kindle, Amazon,PDF, .mobi, ebook)
To what degree can the human exchanges we observe online be called “sociability”? In other words, do these exchanges amount
Read MoreGroup responsible for 2010 Wikileaks Denial of Service attacks against Amazon and Visa splits, reveals power elite, confirms main ideas of Virtual sociability book
The hacktivist group Anonymous, which was recently in the news for its strong-armed support of Wikileaks, is in the middle
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Online Interaction Graduate Seminar to be offered during the fall semester 2011 at Purdue University
Next fall I will teach the Online Interaction Seminar at Purdue University. The class is listed as 47566 – COM
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How close is your home to a nuclear plant? What is the weighted risk of an earthquake nuclear accident in the United States?
As the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant becomes darker by the day (see Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant Update) and
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The rise of expressive individualism
“I want to be an individual, like anybody else” seems to be the new American vocation. With an uncanny ability to detect
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Can media system dependency account for social media? Or should communication infrastructure theory take care of it?
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Media
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The social impact of social media: creator or destroyer of social capital?
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin Adam Matei Social
Read MoreApplied social media research: what makes Wikipedia tick?
Wikipedia, had in July 2010 over 12 million users and 3.5 million articles ( see latest Wikipedia Stats) and was
Read MoreCan social entropy theory explain social media?
Social entropy theory and analysis applied to communication This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media
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Idols of the forum (Idolii forului) book introduces Romanian publishing to 2d code universe
Our second 2d book, Idolii forului – Idols of the Forum, came out a week ago in my native country,
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Ubimark connects print and digital media via 2D codes and iPhone app
Cell phones may seem like a distraction when reading, but our latest project, Ubimark books, can now be paired with
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Ubimark covered by major online sites: Gizmodo, ReadWriteWeb, Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus
Over the last few days my project, Ubimark, which turns print books such as Around the Word in 80 Days
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