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MEDIA FIELDS 2: INFRASTRUCTURES
UCSB, April 9-10, 2009
Thursday, April 9: McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020); Friday, April
10: Mosher Alumni House

Media Fields 2: Infrastructures is an interdisciplinary conference on media and infrastructure hosted by graduate students in Film and Media Studies, Communication, and Comparative Literature at UCSB.

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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.

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.