Following the success of an event held last spring to showcase educational and research opportunities involving the study of technology and society at UCSB, CITS and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) will be hosting a similar graduate reception February 13, 2008. Lunch & refreshments will be provided.
Newspaper 2.0 was a one-day workshop to explore challenges and opportunities in the new Internet-enabled newspaper marketplace. The workshop was hosted by Doc Searls, a CITS Research Fellow and journalist with feet in both the print and online domains.
Newspaper 2.0 was a one-day workshop 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.
Angela Beesley is a British internet entrepreneur. She is a co-founder and vice president for community relations of Wikia. In this interview filmed during the 2006 Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions she explains the new for-profit global initiative.
Rob Kaye is the founder and lead developer for MusicBrainz, and President and Executive Director of the MetaBrainz Foundation, the non-profit organization that pays the bills for MusicBrainz.
Anil de Mello founded Mobuzz T.V S.L in 2004 by and it has become in one of the most important Videoblogs worldwide. MobuzzTV produces several daily shows in different areas and languages.
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.
A student film written and produced at UC Santa Barbara for the Center for Information Technology and Society's 2006 Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions: Social Collaboration and Dynamic Communities.
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.
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.
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.
Following the success of an event held last spring to showcase educational and research opportunities involving the study of technology and society at UCSB, CITS and the Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS) will be hosting a similar graduate reception February 13, 2008. Lunch & refreshments will be provided.
