Media: video

Professor Lunsford reports on a case study of an education consortium that was funded to develop a database of resources for fostering diversity in educational settings. She draws on semi-structured and text-based interviews with six key consortium members, along with rhetorical analyses of several of the project's central documents.

In this talk Dr. Jennifer Earl uses data on strategic voting, which occurred during the 2000 and 2004 U.S. presidential elections, to examine two core concerns of social movements scholars: (1) the effects of repression on subsequent movement mobilization; and (2) the effects of repression on subsequent tactical choices.

Dr. Martinez's talk focuses on the commercialization of the democratic process and the emergence of what he calls the "political industrial complex." Involved in this discussion is the degree to which online technologies contribute to the commercialization of democracy.

Associate Director of CITS Kevin Almeroth along with graduate researcher Allan Knight will discuss and demonstrate the new open-source software PAIRwise: (Paper Authorship Integrity Research) developed by CITS to help instructors in the pursuit of fairness and integrity in the classroom.

This talk examines differences between users and nonusers, in offline and online social interaction, controlling for a variety of socio-demographic and individual factors, analyzing data from national probability sample surveys, in the US (telephone surveys in 1995 and 2000) and Britain (face-to-face interviews in 2003).

Professor Fabrikant's talk is premised on the notion that in recent years, cartographers and GIScientists have become involved in extending geographic concepts and cartographic design approaches to the depiction of non-geographic data archives.

This presentation provides potential users with a tour through the wealth and variety of images available, the search and presentation features of "Insight", a visual arts archive, and what other advances are in store in digital archiving.

In this talk, Dr. Mayer-Patel explores some of the barriers to media convergence and characterize when and why convergence can be successful and when and why convergence is likely to fail. In doing so, he articulates a new model for thinking about the future of multimedia which he calls "confederated media".

If a global humanity is emerging today by means of technological networks and their multiple correlates, the intelligence and agency exercised through such networks can seem to unsettle any number of categories and concepts that have long been taken to define both the "human" "subject" and the world of "objective" "nature."

Rita Raley is an Assistant Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She researches and teaches in the areas of the digital humanities and twentieth-century literature in an “international” or “global” context.