Directory
Sorin Adam Matei
Associate Professor
M.A., Tufts University
B.A., Bucharest University
Office Phone: (765) 494-3320
Email: smatei@purdue.edu
Web Site: http://matei.org/ithink/papers/
Research
Professor Matei studies the socio-spatial dimensions of on-line social interaction and communities. Applying spatial analysis he has developed a research program that explores the collaborative implications of location aware technologies. His most recent projects are http://visiblepast.net, http://veffort.us, http://wikiway.net, and http://thoughtark.com. His research has appeared in the Journal of Communication, Communication Research, the American Behavioral Scientist, and the Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. He has published a book on paramodern social groups (The Mind Boyars) and maintains two research blogs, one in english, http://matei.org/ithink and one in Romanian, http://pagini.com/blog . A former journalist, he is a current collaborator of Foreign Policy, Esquire and several Romanian language national publications.
Representative Publications
- Matei, S. A., Ball-Rokeach, Sandra J, & Ungurean, S. (2007). Communication Channels, Spatial Stereotyping, and Urban Conflict: A Cross-Scale and Spatio-Temporal Perspective. Journal of Dispute Resolution, 1, pp. 196-203.
- Matei, S. A., Miller, C. C., Arns, L., Rauh, N., Hartman, C., & Bruno, R. (2007). Visible Past: Learning and discovering in real and virtual space and time [Electronic Version]. First Monday, 12. Retrieved April 18 from http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue12_5/matei/index.html.
- Lee, S., Monge, P., Bar, F., & Matei, S. A. (2007). The emergence of clusters in global telecommunications network. Journal of Communication, 57, 415-434.
- Matei, S. A. (2006). Globalization and heterogenization: Cultural and civilizational clustering in telecommunicative space (1989-1999). Informatics and Telematics, 23 , 316-331.
- Matei, S. A. and Ball-Rokeach, S. (2005). Watts, the 1965 Los Angeles riots and the communicative construction of the “fear epicenter” of Los Angeles. Communication Monographs, 72, 301-323.
- Matei, S. A. (2005). From counterculture to cyberculture: Virtual community discourse and the dilemma of modernity. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication. Vol. 10(3). Retrieved July 1, 2006, from http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol10/issue3/matei.html.
- Matei, S.A., (2004). The Mind Boyars. Compania: Bucharest.
