Sorin Adam Matei (142 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. To what degree can the human exchanges we observe online be called "sociability"? In other words, do these exchanges amount to any meaningful type of social organization? Are they more than the mere froth of collective emotion discharging its energy with a lot of noise but little consequence against the wave breakers of social media? Do the social interactions that take place in virtual space-all those kind or not-so-kind words sent back and forth-suggest the same level of commitment, dedication, morality, passion, or even depravity that we see in everyday life? Or, more succinctly, is sociability online less "social," less "real" than what we see in everyday life? The present collection of papers reflects some of the most insightful contributions to the Purdue Online Interaction Seminar. Representing a variety of interpretive frameworks, the conversation is circumscribed by a number of themes, of which two are most important. The first one is the nature of online sociability. Are or could online groups be "community-like," bound by ties as strong as those of kith and kin? Should they be qualified as a type of contractual, rational, self-interested "society"? Or should we propose a new interpretive framework? Should online communities be seen as a type of "communitas", which is a form of social aggregation that appears during certain initiation rituals? If this is so, are communitas-like virtual spaces characterized by the same transient, liminal state that mixes a variety of contradictory characteristics (temporary and permanent, close and distant, essential and fleeting) that we observe in other types of "communitas"? Can virtual communitas lead to social and personal transformation, just like its traditional counterpart? Table of Contents Sorin Adam Matei Introduction 1 The book is dead! Long live the ubibook! 9 User Guide 16 Susan Huelsing Sarapin Front Porches and Public Spaces: Planned Communities Online 20 Pamela Morris Glimpses of Community on the Web 45 Brenda Berkelaar Van Pelt Peering Behind the Curtain: The Virtual Wizard Offers No Guarantees 59 Brian C. Britt The Invisible Man: Speaking into the Online Void 84 Robert N. Yale Welcome to I-berspace: Media Gratifications in Successful Virtual Communities 101 Christina Kalinowski Individualism Online: Virtually Escaping the 'Massness' or Vanishing into the 'Electrovoid'? 119 W. Scott Sanders SIDE Theory, Small World Networks, and Smart Mob Formation: A Beginner's Guide 136 Online Interaction Seminar: Selected Readings and Discussion Topics 153 Author Biographies 162 Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This ubitour version of Verne's adventure classic is enhanced with 2d codes, which extend the book into the digital world. With an iPhone or other appropriate Internet mobile phone you can participate in online conversations about the book, its characters, or author. The book also links Fogg's adventure to online interactive maps. Last, but not least, each chapter of the book is linked to its audio and video versions, which can be streamed or downloaded onto the mobile phone. Readers can put the book down, get in the car or on the treadmill to follow Phileas Fogg's and Passpartout's adventures on their iPhones or Smartphones without missing a beat. The Ubitour was designed by Sorin Adam Matei and by the Ideagora team. The book project was supported by the Discovery Learning Center and by the Entrepreneurial Leadership Academy at Purdue University. More details at This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Idolii forului este raspunsul colectiv al unui numar de specialisti in domeniile social, politic, literar si filosofic la doua intrebari fundamentale despre societatea in care traim. Prima intrebare este daca ideea de intelectual public, enciclopedic, fara o specializare data, este perimata? Cea de-a doua este daca fascinatia publica fata de ideea de intelectual "enciclopedic" amator poate amana, intr-o masura, remodernizarea estului Europei si al Romaniei? Volumul este produsul colaborarii a 15 specialisti din domeniile social, politic, literar, jurnalistic si filozofic. Volumul reprezinta si o premiera tehnologica. El ofera coduri 2d (sau QR), care leaga textul de situl Coauthored by 15 Romanian authors, the book critically discusses the cultural models adopted by Romanian and Eastern European public intellectuals after 1989. They scrutinize the claim of intellectual "elites" to represent a special, encyclopedic "vocation," which should be treated with deference by the rest of society because of its lack of specialization. The book also discusses the "paramodern" thinking that informs this type of intellectual discourse, which combines modern with traditional and at times anti-modern ideological themes. Special attention is dedicated to modernizing social discourse and to the need to include in social debates more voices, from all social strata and intellectual groups. Each chapter of the book has a 2d code which linkes to a web site, . ******************************************** Authors/Autori SORIN ADAM MATEI, MONA MOMESCU, MICHAEL SHAFIR, ADRIAN GAVRILESCU, DANIEL BARBU, CAIUS DOBRESCU, MIRCEA FLONTA, GABRIEL ANDREESCU, STELU SERBAN, LUCIAN NASTASA KOVACS, MARIUS GHILEZAN, VASILE MORAR, BRUNO STEFAN, ALEXANDRU MATEI, ISTVAN ARANYOSI. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The volume presents, in a synergistic manner, significant theoretical and practical contributions in the area of social media reputation and authorship measurement, visualization, and modeling. The book justifies and proposes contributions to a future agenda for understanding the requirements for making social media authorship more transparent. Building on work presented in a previous volume of this series, Roles, Trust, and Reputation in Social Media Knowledge Markets, this book discusses new tools, applications, services, and algorithms that are needed for authoring content in a real-time publishing world. These insights may help people who interact and create content through social media better assess their potential for knowledge creation. They may also assist in analyzing audience attitudes, perceptions, and behavior in informal social media or in formal organizational structures. In addition, the volume includes several chapters that analyze the higher order ethical, critical thinking, and philosophical principles that may be used to ground social media authorship. Together, the perspectives presented in this volume help us understand how social media content is created and how its impact can be evaluated.The chapters demonstrate thought leadership through new ways of constructing social media experiences and making traces of social interaction visible. Transparency in Social Media aims to help researchers and practitioners design services, tools, or methods of analysis that encourage a more transparent process of interaction and communication on social media. Knowing who has added what content and with what authority to a specific online social media project can help the user community better understand, evaluate and make decisions and, ultimately, act on the basis of such information.

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