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July 2, 2009

Psychological Profile Based on Tweets

TweetPsych uses two linguistic analysis methods, Regressive Imagery Dictionary (RID) and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), to build a psychological profile of a person based on the content of his or her tweets compared to a baseline score based on over 1.5 million random tweets.

RID is a text analysis tool of 3,000+ words from 43 categories of cognition and emotion. LIWC is a text analysis tool that calculates the degree to which people use different categories of emotion and self-reference words.

Jun 29
One Laptop Per Child: Vision Versus Reality
Jun 23
Decision Making Sites
Jun 16
Seniors Joining Social Network Sites
Jun 10
Happy Birthday Tetris!
Jun 7
China Blocks Access to Many Websites
Jun 1
Congratulations Monica Bulger, our first Technology and Society Emphasis Graduate

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People

Here’s a random sample of the people that make CITS such an exciting place. Refresh your browser to see a different group of folks.

Tobias Hollerer, Ph.D Emphasis Faculty

Tobias Hollerer is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Adjunct Professor in Media Arts and Technology.

Jacqueline Stevens, Research Affiliate

Jacqueline Stevens teaches in the Law and Society Department at UC Santa Barbara. Professor Stevens writes about how laws create hereditary membership groups that seem to be natural. Her focus is on the role law plays in constituting the nation, ethnicity, race, family, kinship, and sexuality.

Roland Geyer, Ph.D Emphasis Faculty

Born and educated in Germany, where he was trained in engineering and physics, Roland Geyer came to the Bren School in 2003 and now teaches courses in production and operations management, and in the emerging field of industrial ecology.

Research Initiatives

Social Collaboration and Dynamic Communities

The structure of communities and the myriad patterns of human engagement that comprise societies have always been tied fundamentally to technology.

Global Cultures in Transition

Global Cultures in Transition is a research initiative affiliated with the Center for Information Technology and Society at UCSB.

Technology in Education

Technology has long played a role in education. However, contrary to expectations, the adoption of technology in almost all areas of education has been surprisingly slow.

Ph.D. Emphasis in Technology & Society

CITS supports the Technology & Society Ph.D. emphasis. The emphasis, available to students in participating doctoral programs, provides interdisciplinary training on the relationships between information technologies and society.

Santa Barbara Forums

The Santa Barbara Forums bring together leading thinkers from universities, industry, media, foundations, and the not-for-profit world to exchange ideas about the dynamic interplay among information technology, social activity, and human psychological processes. Discussion and deliberation-focused panels, expert workshops, and design charrettes examine cutting-edge trends and long-term social transformations resulting from the use of information technologies, as well as exploring how to improve engineering with social insights.

About CITS

CITS is dedicated to analyzing the cultural transitions and social innovations associated with new media, particularly in highly dynamic environments, and committed to infusing social insights into engineering innovations.

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Media

Apr 9, 2009 to Apr 10, 2009

MEDIA FIELDS 2: INFRASTRUCTURES

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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