Center for Information Technology and Society

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January 21, 2010

DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean, a virtual commons being developed by UCSB's Environmental Media Initiative, is working to create global communities using new media to advance ocean sustainability and protect ocean ecosystems.

UCTV recently featured DigitalOcean. Click here to watch the video and learn more.

People

Here’s a random sample of the people that make CITS such an exciting place. Refresh your browser to see a different group of folks.

Stephen Travis Pope, Faculty Research Affiliate, Ph.D Emphasis Faculty

Stephen Pope teaches in the Department of Music at UC Santa Barbara, and the Graduate Program in Media Arts and Technology (MAT) and is also affiliated with the Center for Research in Electronic Art Technology (CREATE) at UC Santa Barbara.

Mayfair Yang, Ph.D Emphasis Faculty

Professor Mayfair Yang is interested in issues of religion, secularization, and the state in modernity, especially in the tensions and traumas accompanying the break with traditional orders under colonial and post-colonial conditions. Her areas of research and teaching are: critical theory; gender and feminism; media studies; sovereignty and state power; and cultural approaches to political economy.

Katy Pearce, Graduate Student, Staff

Katy Pearce is a doctoral student at UC Santa Barbara in the Communication department.

Research Initiatives

Social Collaboration and Dynamic Communities

The structure of communities and the myriad patterns of human engagement that comprise societies have always been tied fundamentally to technology.

Global Cultures in Transition

Global Cultures in Transition is a research initiative affiliated with the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB.

Technology in Education

Technology has long played a role in education. However, contrary to expectations, the adoption of technology in almost all areas of education has been surprisingly slow.

Upcoming Events

Ph.D. Emphasis in Technology & Society

CITS supports the Technology & Society Ph.D. emphasis. The emphasis, available to students in participating doctoral programs, provides interdisciplinary training on the relationships between information technologies and society.

Santa Barbara Forums

The Santa Barbara Forums bring together leading thinkers from universities, industry, media, foundations, and the not-for-profit world to exchange ideas about the dynamic interplay among information technology, social activity, and human psychological processes. Discussion and deliberation-focused panels, expert workshops, and design charrettes examine cutting-edge trends and long-term social transformations resulting from the use of information technologies, as well as exploring how to improve engineering with social insights.

About CITS

CITS is dedicated to analyzing the cultural transitions and social innovations associated with new media, particularly in highly dynamic environments, and committed to infusing social insights into engineering innovations.

More about CITS

Media

Jan 8, 2010

FLS: Bryon Reeves

Total Engagement: Using Games and Virtual Worlds to Change the Way People Work and Businesses Compete.

Dec 3, 2009

FLS: Patrick McCray

From Space Colonies to Nanobots to Xanadu: California’s Technological Enthusiasts, 1970-1990

Jun 2, 2009

Zoomorph - Enabeling Interspecies Collaboration Lisa Jevbratt Tuesday, June 2

Jevbratt will present and contextualize her current project "ZooMorph" which consists of plug-in filters for widely used image and video-editing software such as Photoshop and Final Cut Pro, and platforms such as the iPhone and other smart phones. The plug-ins simulate how a large selection of non-human animals see, creating pictures that help us experience the world through the eyes of another species.

Classes

These courses may be of interest to T&S participants, but may not necessarily fulfill T&S requirements. Click here to see a list of courses that fulfill T&S requirements without a petition.