This year's Herb Kay Lecture,“My Entrepreneurial Journey from UCSB to MySpace and Beyond”, will be held on Monday, May 19 at the University of California, Santa Barbara's Campbell Hall at 2:30pm. Admission is free.
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.
The Spring 2008 offering of the Technology & Society Seminar Series addresses the theme of technology and politics. We will explore topics such as the use of technology in political campaigns and advocacy, public policies regarding the regulation or use of technology, and technology as the product of politics.
Alan Liu 's talk examines how Web 2.0 presents new challenges for research in an area that is variously called information credibility, authority, trust, and quality.
