Sorin Matei

Biographic Data

ID3620555
NAMESorin Matei
GIVEN NAMESSorin
FAMILY NAMEMatei
SIGNATUREMATEI Ș
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Southern California
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS13
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2001
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2007
H-INDEX2

  • The perils and promise of global transparency: Why the information revolution may not lead to security, democracy, or peace - by Kristin M. Lord

    Open AccessSorin Adam Matei, Sorin MateiARTICLEJournal of Communication2007

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The perils and promise of global transparency: Why the information revolution may not lead to security, democracy, or peace Kristin M. Lord State University of New York Press, Albany, New York, 2006, $65 (hard), $21.95 (paper), pp. 198 Sorin Matei Sorin Matei 1Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 57, Issue 4, December 200…

  • The Emergent Romanian Post-Communist Ethos From Nationalism to Privatism

    Sorin Adam Matei, Sorin MateiARTICLEProblems of Post-Communism2004Cited by: 7

    More than ten years after the fall of communism, Romanians are far more concerned with personal goals than communal issues

  • The Internet in the Communication Infrastructure of Urban Residential Communities: Macro- or Mesolinkage

    Open AccessSorin Adam Matei, Sorin Matei et al.ARTICLEJournal of Communication2003

    The article refines the view that the Internet is increasingly incorporated in everyday life, concluding that the new medium has been partially integrated in the “communication infrastructure” of English-speaking Los Angeles neighborhoods. Here, Internet connectedness is associated with civic participation and indirectly contributes to “belonging” to a residential community. However, in predominantly Asian and Latino areas, the Internet is diseng…

  • Fear and Misperception of Los Angeles Urban Space: A Spatial-Statistical Study of Communication-Shaped Mental Maps

    Open AccessSorin Adam Matei, Sorin Matei et al.ARTICLECommunication Research2001

    Imagining urban space as being comfortable or fearful is studied as an effect of people's connections to their residential area communication infrastructure. Geographic Information System (GIS) modeling and spatial-statistical methods are used to process 215 mental maps obtained from respondents to a multilingual survey of seven ethnically marked residential communities of Los Angeles. Spatial-statistical analyses reveal that fear perceptions of …

  • ‘Beepless in America’: The Social Impact of the Galaxy IV Pager Blackout

    Open AccessWilliam H Dutton, Anita Elberse et al.CHAPTERAccess Denied in the Information…2001

    Popular conceptions of the ‘information society’ are useful in conveying the social significance of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Nevertheless, the idea of an information society fails to provide insights about the role of ICTs in society, and can be misleading in focusing attention on too limited a view of information (Dutton 1999: 3–14)

  • Storytelling Neighborhood: Paths to Belonging in Diverse Urban Environments

    Open AccessSandra J Ball-Rokeach, Sandra J Ball‐rokeach et al.ARTICLECommunication Research2001

    This article develops and tests a communication infrastructure model of belonging among dwellers of urban residential environments. The concept of a communication infrastructure—a storytelling system set in its communication action context—is discussed. Storytelling neighborhood, the communication process through which neighborhood discussion transforms people from occupants of a house to members of a neighborhood, is proposed as an essential com…

  • Real and Virtual Social Ties: Connections in the Everyday Lives of Seven Ethnic Neighborhoods

    Sorin Adam Matei, Matei et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2001Cited by: 6References: 13

    The relationship between online and offline social ties is studied in seven Los Angeles ethnically marked residential areas. Contrary to visions proposing a zero-sum game between the two, the authors advance a "the more, the more" approach to online social ties. A higher level of belonging to real communities translates into a higher propensity for interaction online. This approach is informed by a social shaping of technology perspective, which …