The New York Times today published "The Future of Reading Digital Versus Print" the first in a series of articles that will look at how the Internet and other technological and social forces are changing the way people read.
While taking the short walk from a parking and bus area to the majestic lower falls, I saw a college-aged woman totally engaged in text messaging while sitting on a rock fence on the side of the trail.
The World Information Access (WIA) project has just published a report that includes data on the arrest and prosecution of political bloggers around the world.
Last week, Rob Patton, the Program Manager for CITS, gave a talk on Facebook and interactivity. A video of his talk, which focused on findings from his Master’s research on Facebook, is now available online.
The UCTV version of the recent 2008 CITS Distinguished Lecture by Lawrence Lessig is now online. This recording will begin airing on Santa Barbara local cable Channel 21 and across the DISH Network Channel 9412 in the near future. Why wait -- watch it today! Professor Lessig's talk on Changing Congress outlines some fundamental procedural reforms necessary to bring about substantive changes in the nature of the U.S. political system.
Over the past year, folks from CITS, Transliteracies, and other campus research projects have been working toward a proposal to support research and graduate education around social computing. While social computing as a general area could encompass much of what we do with wired and wireless devices, our group has been focused on several related and core issues associated with social computing...
In the gateway seminar to the Technology and Society PhD emphasis, which this quarter is being led by Bruce Bimber, there was a discussion a few weeks back on the ethics of scientific participation in various kinds of military research. As luck would have it, I had been planning to read Disrupting Science by Kelly Moore...
As the 2008 campaign continues, I thought I would make note of a recent book, Web Campaigning, by Kirsten Foot and Steven Schneider that folks might be interested in. The book uses a broad constellation of data on websites from various levels of races to trace how campaigns have been using websites and Internet-enabled tools.
In case you missed Rob adding it to the site, we have posted the first version of audio and video we are releasing of Lawrence Lessig’s Distinguished Speaker Series talk. This first version includes video of his slides synced to the audio from his talk.
Rob Patton is Program Manager of CITS and will present recent research that examines the communication behaviors of student users of the popular online social networking site (SNS) Facebook. Specifically the research analyzed the relationships between antecedent user characteristics and forms of networked interactivity present in Facebook user profile communication.
