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.

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.