Dr. Sorin Adam Matei is an Associate Professor of Communication

Communication

Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...

 at Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

, where he specializes in studying the creation, use, and application of new media

New media

New media is a broad term in media studies that emerged in the latter part of the 20th century. For example, new media holds out a possibility of on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community...

 technologies. He is the author of The Mind Boyars, which, "is a critical meditation on the social and intellectual mechanisms that inform Romanian cultural life, describing the nature and consequences of what [he] consider[s] to be the elitist ethos of Romanian intelligentsia." He is also the co-editor with Mona Momescu of "Idols of the Forum," a book of essays authored by 13 leading Romanian scholars that scrutinizes the nature and significance of dominant Romanian intellectual cultural models. He has also developed several software tools including Visible Effort,Thought Ark, Alterpode, Visible Past, and Ubimark.

External links

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• The Mind Boyars