Sorin Adam Matei
Analysis, research, maps, and essays from Sorin Adam Matei.
Com 435, Emerging Communication Technologies (150 enrolled students), will organize in the last two weeks of April an eight team soccer tournament in Second Life. Students will play use avatars and very funny names and I will preside as Cyclops Argus. The…
Lately, most of what I’ve read here has to do with the depth, or lack thereof, of relationships formed online. Notice I don’t call them friendships. They seem to be undermined (intentionally?) by the actors. I had a profile on JDate.com for…
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…