cits

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CITS is dedicated to research and education about the cultural transitions and social innovations associated with technology. The Center comprises a diverse team of more than a dozen scholars in the social sciences, engineering, and the humanities. We conduct research, organize public forums, provide multi-disciplinary doctoral education on technology and society, and facilitate partnerships with industry and the public sector. Our research examines many aspects of the social and cultural transitions under way at present around the globe, but we have a particular focus on technological change and three topics: • Social Collaboration and Dynamic Communities• Global Cultures in Transition• Technology in EducationCITS was founded at UC Santa Barbara in 1999, on the thirtieth anniversary of the birth of the Internet. UC Santa Barbara is nationally acclaimed for its success at multi-disciplinary research, and provides a perfect home CITS’s wide scope of inquiry and education. The Center is housed in the campus Office of Research, as a unit of the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research. CITS is funded by the university and private gifts, along with research grants.

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    • Dmitri Williams - Norath, Cho'gath and Shaolin M...

      Professor Williams will share his experiences running a large team of interdisciplinary researchers working with data from several online games and virtual worlds. In the Virtual World Exploratorium group, 20 students and faculty from communication and computer science data mine, analyze and survey thousands of players across three online worlds. In a new project, a student-based team combines survey and server-side log files to explore the player population of the popular online game League o...

      • Release date
        Oct 25, 2011
      • Runtime
        58:35
    • FLS - Kazutoshi Sumiya - Less-Conscious Informat...

      We have developed methods which can deal with the user's interaction without conventional conscious searching. When a user generally performs map operations with certain information retrieval intentions (less-conscious), a system using this method can detect the specific operation sequences. For example, if the user performs zooming-in and centering operations, the user is narrowing down the search area to a certain location. We define such operation sequences as chunks. The system detects the...

      • Release date
        Oct 8, 2011
      • Runtime
        52:15
    • Rachel Gibson - Defining and Measuring e-Partici...

      In this talk Dr. Gibson uses original survey data from the 2010 UK election to address the question of defining and measuring e-participation. Despite over a decades’ worth of research being conducted into the topic of e-participation, a clear and commonly accepted definition of the activity itself remains elusive. The talk will focus on ways in which e-participation has been studied both conceptually and empirically, drawing on the extensive literature that has examined offline participation....

      • Release date
        May 27, 2011
      • Runtime
        48:23
    • Metzger, Zhao, Wilson: Social Interaction in Soc...

      A deep understanding of user social interaction in social networking sites (SNSs) can provide important insights into questions of human social and relational behavior, as well as shape the design of future online social platforms and applications.This talk presents a new data mining technique to capture natural social interaction in social network sites that offers a unique view of both “visible” (e.g., comments and wall posts) and “latent” (e.g., passive profile browsing) user social interac...

      • Release date
        May 5, 2011
      • Runtime
        45:47
    • Jennifer Holt: Regulatory Hangover: Platforms, P...

      This talk will examine the concept of "regulatory hangover" for the ;media industries - an economic term used to describe the inability of

      • Release date
        Apr 12, 2011
      • Runtime
        48:41
    • Megan Boler: Truth Effects and Digital Dissent: ...

      Within the explosion of web-based alternatives to mainstream media, contests about "truth" and knowledge are more fraught than ever. My three-year mixed methods research project "Rethinking Media, Democracy and Citizenship" examined the motivations of producers of "digital dissent" following mainstream media news coverage of events including the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the 2004 presidential election. Our interviews with 35 participants and survey of 160 online video, blog, and satire produce...

      • Release date
        Feb 9, 2011
      • Runtime
        37:07
    • John O'Donovan - Interfaces for Social Informati...

      As the volume of user-provided content on the web increases rapidly, we rely more on automated methods for finding relevant, trustworthy and useful information in a timely manner. Traditional mechanisms for tackling this information overload problem include active techniques such as entering a search query over an index, and passive techniques such as receiving automated item recommendations such as with products on Amazon.com, or the highly personalized advertisements that we see on Facebook....

      • Release date
        Dec 16, 2010
      • Runtime
        01:12:25
    • Christian Sandvig-Connection at Ewiiaapaayp Mtn:...

      Broadband infrastructure is a national priority, yet decentralized public policy efforts in the US to date have produced an uneven landscape of exceptions instead of a national grid. This talk presents the case of the Tribal Digital Village, a successful solar-powered wireless network that provides high-speed Internet access to rural Indian reservations in Southern California. In some cases these reservations now have high-speed Internet access but still lack wired electrical power, telephones...

      • Release date
        Nov 24, 2010
      • Runtime
        39:54
    • Homero Gil de Zuñiga - Democracy and the Effects...

      Journalism has long existed in the service of informed democracy producing knowledgeable and politically engaged citizens. Nevertheless, most of the existing research is based on professional journalism as embodied by the mainstream press which has suffered a steady decline for decades in the U.S. and elsewhere, accelerated by online news services. With the increasing popularity of so-called "citizen journalism," the time is ripe for scholarly inquiry on the contributions of this type of news ...

      • Release date
        Nov 9, 2010
      • Runtime
        37:28
    • Elizabeth Belding: Bridging the Digital Divide

      Access to communication plays a pivotal role in the socio-economic development of any nation. The past few decades have witnessed revolutionary changes in communication technology and information access has become a key component of many people's lives. While on one hand the Internet revolution has played a pivotal role in the development of economic, social, financial and educational sectors of the industrialized world, it has also created a "digital divide" that separates the affluent and de...

      • Release date
        Oct 10, 2010
      • Runtime
        50:57
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