Affiliated Faculty

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Amy Propen is an Associate Professor of Digital and Multimodal Writing in the Writing Program. Her research interests include visual and material rhetorics, environmental and sustainability rhetorics, digital and posthuman rhetorics, animal studies, human geography, critical cartographies, and critical GIS. She is particularly interested in the connections between multimodal technologies, the posthuman, and environmental and marine species conservation.

  • Steering Committee Member
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Rita Raley is a Professor in the Department of English, where she serves as co-director of the Literature and Culture of Information specialization. She is the author of Tactical Media and has more recently published articles on digital poetics, dataveillance, and interventionist art practices. She co-edited a journal issue on "securing with algorithms" and writing about algorithmic translations.

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Laila Shereen Sakr is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies. With a body of work specializing in computational art, live cinema, data visualization, and media activism, her scholarship uses media analytics, specifically in Arabic, and live cinema to map how participation among networked publics have influenced the formation of a virtual body politic. This research led her to design the R-Shief media system for real-time archiving and analyzing social media content for over five years and with more than twenty five billion posts, and the cyborg representation of VJ Um Amel.
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Dr. Muniba Saleem is an associate professor in the Department of Communication. Dr. Saleem studies how media affects interpersonal and intergroup relations between racial, ethnic, and religious groups. Current work examines the social psychological antecedents of hate speech on social media sites as well as the consequences of being exposed to such speech for minoritized groups. Other work examines how and why minoritized members use social media for collective action.  

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Greg Siegel is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Forensic Media: Reconstructing Accidents in Accelerated Modernity (Duke University Press). His research interests include Media History, Cultural Theory, Science and Technology Studies, Media Theory, Critical Theory, and Sound Studies. 

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Ambuj K. Singh is a Professor of Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara, with appointments in the Biomolecular Science and Engineering, and the Technology Management Department. His research interests are in the areas of network science, machine learning, social networks, and bioinformatics. His multidisciplinary projects include UCSB’s Information Network Academic Research Center, the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) on Network Science of Teams (https://muriteams.cs.ucsb.edu/) (both funded by the Army), and the Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) program on Network Science (NSF). 
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Eric R.A.N. Smith is a Professor of Political Science. Dr. Smith's research focuses on public opinion, elections, and environmental politics. In the area of environmental politics, he has been examining public opinion toward offshore oil development and nuclear power.

Melissa Smith
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Melissa Smith is a family medicine physician who has worked in poor communities in the US and Central America providing medical care and developing training programs for community health workers and midwives. Dr. Smith is the Director of Health Equity Initiatives at UC Santa Barbara, and Deputy Director of Education and Training for the UC Global Health Institute's Women's Health Gender and Empowerment Center of Expertise.

  • Past Director
  • Faculty Research Affiliate
  • Steering Committee Member

Cynthia Stohl is Professor in the Department of Communication, a Fellow and Past President of the International Communication Association, and a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association. A leading expert in globalization, networks, and organizational  processes, her most recent work addresses global organizing, collective action, and corporate social responsibility in the digital media environment. In  2012 she received the Outstanding Book award for Collective Action in Organizations: Interaction and Engagement in an Era of Technological Change (co-authored with UCSB Professors Flanagin and Bimber). 

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Michael Stohl is a Professor in the Department of Communication and an affiliate faculty member in the departments of Global and International Studies and Political Science. His research focuses on organizational and political communication with special reference to terrorism, human rights and global relations. Dr. Stohl has been the recipient of three Fulbright Fellowships, to teach in Denmark, Japan and Korea, and New Zealand in 1983. He was awarded Visiting Research Grants for collaborative research on terrorism at the University of Leiden, The Netherlands, by the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappeliijk Onderzoek in 1989. 

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