Events Related to Bruce Bimber

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.