Past Faculty Lecture Series

Media under Water: Cultural Conflict and Strategies of Insulation at Transpacific Cable Landing Points

Submarine cables are one of the least expensive and most durable forms of transoceanic communication. From the telegraph lines laid in the 1860s to the fiber-optic infrastructure that carries almost all transoceanic internet traffic, cables have formed a critical foundation for global information systems and supported the interconnection of economic, cultural, and political networks around bodies of water.

Signals Astray: Radio, Radioactivity, and Cold War Culture

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.

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.

Engineering Science Building Room 1001

Title: Privacy 2.0: Managing Privacy in Social Networking Environments

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Nanotechnologies: Perception of Technological Risk & Constraints on Benefit among Comparative US/UK Publics

This talk challenges the myth of information on the Internet: while information may appear excessively easy to find because of quick search results and increased accessibility to materials, locating relevant, high-quality information requires highly sophisticated literacy skills. Monica Bulger shares results of an empirical study for her dissertation that assessed the ways in which students negotiate potentially overwhelming online information options.

Judy Estrin, long-time technology leader and former CTO of Cisco, will be speaking as part of the CITS Distinguished Speaker Series on October 27, 2008 at UCSB.

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.

Cristina Venegas is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB. Her research focuses on international media with an emphasis on “Latin” America, Spanish-language film and television in the U.S., and digital technologies. Her forthcoming book is titled Digital Dilemma about Cuba’s digital media since the 1990s.

Lawrence Lessig, legal professor, author, and digital culture visionary presented the 2008 CITS Distinguished Lecture. The free event took place April 11, 2008 at 12 o’clock at UCSB’s MultiCultural Center theater. Professor Lessig spoke on "Changing Congress: Lessons Learned by a Copyright Activist."

Professor James Frew's talk explores the idea that scientists are increasingly being called upon to publish data as well as conclusions.

Alan Liu 's talk examines how Web 2.0 presents new challenges for research in an area that is variously called information credibility, authority, trust, and quality.

Professor Mayer reviews 10 research-based tactics for how to design Web-based and paper-based multimedia instructional materials.

Professor Lisa Parks of the Film and Media Studies department presents work on wireless telephony in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar.

Presidential scholar and Chair of the UCSB Political Science department John Woolley’s current research focuses on change over time in the American presidency and presidential use of unilateral action.

As part of the CITS Distinguished lecture series, authors and authorities on new media technology J.D. Lasica and Doc Searls have a conversation about the rise of new forms of citizen media.

Dr. Lieberman presents theory and research on the features of interactive health games that -- when well designed -- may influence players' health-related attitudes, learning, and behavior.

Michael Stohl is Professor and Chair of the UCSB Communication Department. He is currently working on two projects related to terrorism, a study of networks of terrorism and a project on the interaction between the media and terrorism.

Allan Knight is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. Allan's research interests are in Plagiarism Detection Systems, Collaborative Technology Architectures and Automatic Multimedia Integration.

Ben Zhao is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the areas of networking, distributed systems, simulation and modeling.

Katy Pearce a graduate student in Communication speaks about her experiences in the Former Soviet regions of Central Asia and the Caucasus with respect to technology and internet use.

Doc Searls is co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Senior Editor of Linux Journal, a fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and one of the world's best-known bloggers.

As part of the CITS Distinguished lecture series CITS is happy to welcome former head Talking Head and creative dynamo David Byrne. Mr. Byrne has turned his attention to the ubiquitous presentation software PowerPoint, developing the book Envisioning Emotional Epistemological Information and this surprising, comic and touching performance piece.

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. 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

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.

CITS welcomes Dr. Vinton Cerf as part of the CITS Distinguished lecture series. Dr. Cerf is widely considered one of the "Fathers of the Internet," for his role in co-designing the TCP/IP protocol and the architecture of the Internet.

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.

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.

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.

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).

Professor Fabrikant's talk is premised on the notion that in recent years, cartographers and GIScientists have become involved in extending geographic concepts and cartographic design approaches to the depiction of non-geographic data archives.

This presentation provides potential users with a tour through the wealth and variety of images available, the search and presentation features of "Insight", a visual arts archive, and what other advances are in store in digital archiving.

In this talk, Dr. Mayer-Patel explores some of the barriers to media convergence and characterize when and why convergence can be successful and when and why convergence is likely to fail. In doing so, he articulates a new model for thinking about the future of multimedia which he calls "confederated media".

LISA JEVBRATT
Department of Art Studio & Media Arts and Technology
presents
DATA VISUALIZATION AND IDENTITY IN THE NON-INTENDED
Friday May 7th, 2004
@ Noon in the CTL
(Collaborative Technologies Laboratory)
Trailer 932, East of Davidson Library

If a global humanity is emerging today by means of technological networks and their multiple correlates, the intelligence and agency exercised through such networks can seem to unsettle any number of categories and concepts that have long been taken to define both the "human" "subject" and the world of "objective" "nature."

Rita Raley is an Assistant Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She researches and teaches in the areas of the digital humanities and twentieth-century literature in an “international” or “global” context.

Miriam Metzger is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at UC Santa Barbara her research includes studies of the credibility of information in the new media environment, problems of online privacy and security, the impact of media on public opinion, and the theoretical and regulatory changes brought about by the development of new media technologies.

Professor Emerita Francesca Bray's most recent work focuses everyday technologies and the Californian way of life. She examines the social and political relations and the cultural meanings embodied in such everyday artifacts as the flush toilet, the genetically-engineered tomato, and e-mail.

As part of the CITS Distinguished lecture series Professor Mark Poster presents a talk on the topic of Who Controls Digital Culture? Dr. Poster is author of The Second Media Age, The Mode of Information and What's the Matter with the Internet?

Stephen Pope's talk looks at how technology, culture, and the arts have been intimately intertwined for as long as there have been technology, culture, and arts. That being said, there are several aspects of modern technology and culture that have significant impacts on this relationship.

Professor Jennifer Earl, is a member of the Sociology Department and is current Director of CITS at UC Santa Barbara. Using the online strategic voting movement during the 2000 US Presidential Election as a case study, Professor Earl and her colleagues argue that the application of prior theory often overlooks the ways in which movements that emerge and thrive online function differently from conventional movements.

Dr. Beall's talk focuses on computer-mediated communication systems known as Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) which allow geographically separated individuals to interact verbally and nonverbally in a shared virtual space in real-time.

Dr. Richard Mayer is a professor in the Psychology department at UC Santa Barbara. Professor Mayer's research involves the intersection of cognition, instruction, and technology with a special focus on multimedia learning and problem solving.

Professor Bimber's research examines the relationship between evolving information technology and changes in human behavior, especially in the domains of political organization, collective action, social capital, and political deliberation.

Dr. Stonich talks on her research that has focused on the radicalization of local groups around environmental issues and the emergence of grass-roots environmental movements of the poor in Central America.

Jon Cruz is an Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include the sociology of knowledge; American racial history; and media.

In this talk Professor Turk discusses several of the key individuals in the long history of computing and their contributions to logic and computing that paved the way for the "universal machines" of today and tomorrow.

Dorothy Chun professor of Applied Linguistics talks about studies she has conducted on cognitive processes in learning with multimedia CD-ROMs and websites for second language acquisition.

Professor Legrady's presentation focuses on digital media art exhibitions that use computer technology as a means of recording the audience's presence and movement within the gallery space.

LISA PARKS
Department of Film Studies
presents
To See What We Hear: Mapping Scenes of Wireless Telephony

Debra Lieberman
Department of Communication & ISBER
presents
Creating Interactive Video Games that Improve Young People’s Health Behaviors: Putting Theory into Practice
Interactive video game demonstration to follow lecture

Professor Freeman discusses several of the local (historical, regulatory and technological) factors shaping Internet development in Japan, and evaluates their potential impact on Japanese democracy, especially their role in the creation of an active, literate and participatory information and civil society.

Sarah Pritchard was the University Librarian at UC Santa Barbara. She is currently the Charles Deering McCormick University Librarian at Northwestern University in Illinois. Sarah discusses common concerns about the disappearing library in the digital world and the influences emerging technologies have on University libraries.

Anna Everett is a Professor and Chair of the Film and Media Studies department at UC Santa Barbara. She works in the fields of film and TV history/theory, African-American film and culture, and Digital Media Technologies.

Professor Stohl's talk explores how in today's complex and volatile global environment members of different organizations (often competitors) are working together, for a limited time, to collaborate on solving technical and social problems and creating products that they would be unable to do themselves in an effective and efficient manner.

Robert Samuels is a professor in the Writing Program at UC Santa Barbara. His talk is titled Viral Culture After Baudrillard: AIDS, Computer Viruses, Cloning, and Bio-terrorism.