Blog Archive 2003

Howard Rheingold, futurist and renowned observer of technology, will speak at UCSB’s engineering II Pavilion on Friday October 17, 2003 at 2 o’clock. Rheingold’s talk is the first in a new series of lectures titled Life Online Distinguished Speaker Series.

The Visions of Technology Film Series will feature films exploring themes of human interaction with technology. Each film will be introduced by a UCSB faculty member who is an expert on either the film itself or its subject matter.

Message from the Director Bruce Bimber

These are interesting times for those concerned with the ways technology affects social interaction. In the late 1990s, studies suggesting that Internet use might contribute to social isolation commanded headlines and academic attention.

John Seely Brown has joined the CITS External Advisory Board, a group of distinguished executives and technologists who advise the Center and interact with UCSB faculty through CITS.

In this article, UCSB sociologist Jennifer Earl and her colleague Alan Schussman argue that traditional theoretical approaches often overlook the ways that movements emerging online function differently from conventional movements.

Message from the Director Bruce Bimber

Our focus this quarter at CITS is technology in the university course. The trickle of technologies into classes here at UCSB and elsewhere is growing into a swiftly flowing stream.