2005

Associate Director of CITS Kevin Almeroth along with graduate researcher Allan Knight will discuss and demonstrate the new open-source software PAIRwise: (Paper Authorship Integrity Research) developed by CITS to help instructors in the pursuit of fairness and integrity in the classroom.

Jackie Stevens is an Assistant Professor in the Law and Society Program at UC Santa Barbara. She presents on AgoraXchange, an online collaboration for imagining and building a massive multiplayer online game.

Undergraduate honors student in Communication Kier Wallis and Professor of Communication Ron Rice discuss research on technology and health information privacy.

In this talk Dr. Jennifer Earl uses data on strategic voting, which occurred during the 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential elections, to examine two core concerns of social movements scholars: (1) the effects of repression on subsequent movement mobilization; and (2) the effects of repression on subsequent tactical choices.

In this talk Dr. Garrett focuses on two interconnected questions, how contemporary use of the Internet is influencing citizens overall exposure to political information? And how individual choices about exposure to news items in an online environment afford enhanced control over partisanship

Dr. Martinez's talk focuses on the commercialization of the democratic process and the emergence of what he calls the "political industrial complex." Involved in this discussion is the degree to which online technologies contribute to the commercialization of democracy.

Professor Lunsford reports on a case study of an education consortium that was funded to develop a database of resources for fostering diversity in educational settings. She draws on semi-structured and text-based interviews with six key consortium members, along with rhetorical analyses of several of the project's central documents.

This talk examines differences between users and nonusers, in offline and online social interaction, controlling for a variety of socio-demographic and individual factors, analyzing data from national probability sample surveys, in the US (telephone surveys in 1995 and 2000) and Britain (face-to-face interviews in 2003).