CITS

August 26, 2009

We've Moved!

We've moved! We are now located at 1310 Social Science and Media Studies (SSMS).

This new building is located across the street from Robertson Gym.

We hope to be up and running in the next two weeks and invite you to stop by the new space once we are again open for business.

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Apr 9, 2009

Can meaningful relationships be inferred from online social network connections? - Ben Zhao Thursday, April 9

Social networks are popular platforms for interaction, communication and collaboration between friends. Researchers have recently proposed an emerging class of applications that leverage relationships from social networks to improve security and performance in applications such as email, web browsing and overlay routing. While these applications often cite social network connectivity statistics to support their designs, researchers in psychology and sociology have repeatedly cast doubt on the practice of inferring meaningful relationships from social network connections alone.

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February 25, 2009

Facebook and Privacy in the News

Three major privacy stories concerning Facebook have come out over the past week:

First, a Calvin College student has been suspended for one year over a Facebook message he allegedly posted about his ex-girlfriend. The college cited Mr. Harris, a sophomore, for violating technology and conduct codes at the institution, which refers to itself as “distinctively Christian.” [CHE]

And second, Facebook launched new Terms of Service this week and then took them back.

February 23, 2009

Online privacy

Online privacy is a hot topic.

In March, Miriam Metzger will present at the CITS Faculty Lecture Series about Privacy 2.0.

February 19, 2009

Collective experience via photography

While some may argue that in the era of TiVo and digital cable, shared experiences are decreasing. A new product from Microsoft called PhotoSynth may be one way for a new kind of shared experience.

The PhotoSynth software can assemble a collection of digital snapshots taken at a certain place into a 3D environment that you can pan and zoom through.

CNN created an amazing PhotoSynth of the inauguration.

Expert Workshops

Expert Workshops at CITS are opportunities for leading thinkers with common interests to explore new approaches in a workshop setting.

Newspaper 2.0 was a one-day workshop in 2007 to explore challenges and opportunities in the new Internet-enabled newspaper marketplace. The workshop brought together journalists, scholars and leading thinkers who shared a common interest in the future of daily and weekly journals with a particular interest in Santa Barbara as a region where new approaches might be explored.

Travel

Information from the UCSB Visitors' Center

Santa Barbara Airport is the recommended way to get to Santa Barbara.

Taxi services in Santa Barbara:
* City Cab (805) 968-6868
* Blue Dolphin Cab (805) 962-6886
* Rose Cab (805) 564-2600
* Yellow Cab Co. (805) 963-4111

Design Charrette Draft Schedule

Design charrettes are designed to be immersive experiences that move quickly and require full engagement. That means our schedule is different than most events you have attended in two ways: (1) it is fully packed with what appears to be a breakneck pace, and (2) instead of formal breaks where group energy across all groups dissipates, we will ask that individuals excuse themselves for a short break whenever they need a break while their groups continue working. Lunch will be the only large group break.

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Faculty Expertise

CITS draws on a decade of experience with interdisciplinary research on the relationship between technology and society. With several dozen research affiliates from across the faculty of UC Santa Barbara, one of the original hubs to the Internet, CITS has substantial faculty expertise on a wide variety of technology-society topics. In this particular design charrette, lead faculty organizers are as follows:

The Design Charrette Model

Rapidly changing environments mean that organizations must solve problems that did not exist a decade ago, like managing employees’ use of social media in the workplace, creating credibility and reputations in web space, or dealing with mobile, ubiquitous computing by consumers, to name just a few.

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