Faculty: Sorin Matei
Associate Professor
phone: 765-494-3320
email: smatei@purdue.edu
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Education
Ph.D., University of Southern California
M.A., Tufts University
B.A., Bucharest University
Research
Professor Matei has a variety of research and instructional interests, including socio-spatial shaping of communication technology, on-line social interaction and communities, spatial analysis (Geographic Information Systems) applied to communication systems and international communication processes and flows. He is also interested in mass and new media research methods, web publishing and on-line survey methodologies, communication and sociological theory. His research has appeared in the Journal of Communication, Communication Research, the American Behavioral Scientist, and the Electronic Journal of Communication among others. His current research is funded through a grant from the Kettering Foundation.
Representative Publications
- Sorin Matei and Sandra Ball-Rokeach (2001). Real and virtual social ties: Connections in the everyday lives of seven ethnic neighborhoods. American Behavioral Scientist, vol. 45(3), 550-563.
- Sorin Matei, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, and Jack Qiu (2001). Fear and misperception of Los Angeles urban space: A spatial-statistical study of communication-shaped mental maps. Communication Research, 28(4), 429-463.
- Sorin Matei, Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Elizabeth Gutierrez Hoyt, Mary Wilson, and Jennifer Gibbs (2001). Metamorphosis: A multi-method research design for the study of communication technology and community. Electronic Journal of Communication. Vol. 11(2).
- Sorin Matei and Sandra Ball-Rokeach.(in press). The Internet in the communication infrastructure of urban residential communities: meso or macro-linkage? Journal of Communication.
- Sorin Matei (1998). Virtual community as rhetorical vision and its American roots. In M. Prosser & K. S. Sitaram, eds. Civic Discourse: Intercultural, International, and Global Media. Greenwich, CT: Ablex Publishing, Co.
- Sorin Matei (1997). Secretul sanatatii sociale. Intelectualii moderni intre grupurile de prestigiu si piata. (The secret of social health: Modern intellectuals between status groups and markets). Interval, 3, December.