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CNS-UCSB Announces Three New Post-Doctoral Fellowships
The NSF-funded Center for Nanotechnology and Society at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces three new postdoctoral fellowships to conduct research on the societal aspects of emerging technologies, with a particular focus on nanotechnology.
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CNS-UCSB Conference: Educator's Workshop
Designing Undergraduate Courses that Integrate Nanotechnology and Society
CNS-UCSB and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UC Santa Barbara invite educators to a workshop on Nanotechnology and Society from September 10 - 12, 2008.
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CNS-UCSB Event: Community Gathering to Highlight Possibilities for New Environmentally-Friendly Nano
UC Santa Barbara Environmental Science and Society
Professors will lead open forum on “Green Nano” products and applications
Santa Barbara, Calif. – UC Santa Barbara’s Center for Nanotechnology in
Society (CNS) and the California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) invite
the Santa Barbara community to attend a casual public forum called
“Nano-Meeter” to discuss the use and implications of “green
nanotechnologies” on Thursday, August 28, 2008 from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. in
the Faulkner Gallery at the Santa Barbara Public Library.
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Literacy Debate: Online, R U Really Reading?
The New York Times today published "The Future of Reading Digital Versus Print" the first in a series of articles that will look at how the Internet and other technological and social forces are changing the way people read. The article is an informative piece on the on-going debate of the effects of web activity that at face value is reading but in some circles is not considered "true" reading because it doesn't involve paper text or the great works.
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Text Messaging in Yosemite
Over the July 4th holiday weekend, I went to Yosemite National Park for the better part of a day. While taking the short walk from a parking and bus area to the majestic lower falls, I saw a college-aged woman totally engaged in text messaging while sitting on a rock fence on the side of the trail.
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Thanks Rob-- We Will Miss You
Rob Patton, the CITS Program Manager since 2002, had his last day with CITS yesterday. Rob and his family are moving this summer and thus he is moving on from CITS. Rob will be missed—he was a large part of the growth and development of CITS. We thank Rob for his service and hard work and wish him the best of luck on his next adventure!
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World Information Access Project 2008 Report
The World Information Access (WIA) project has just published a report that includes data on the arrest and prosecution of political bloggers around the world. According to the report, arrests of political bloggers have been on the rise over recent years, with a dramatic uptick in 2007, even though levels overall remain relatively low with 64 bloggers being prosecuted since 2003.
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Researching Social Computing
Over the past year, folks from CITS, Transliteracies, and other campus research projects have been working toward a proposal to support research and graduate education around social computing. While social computing as a general area could encompass much of what we do with wired and wireless devices, our group has been focused on several related and core issues associated with social computing:
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Podcast: Where Do Innovations Come From? Lessons for Nanotechnology
As part of its ongoing Speaker Series, CNS-UCSB hosted Dr. Fred Block, Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Davis, in May 2008 to deliver a public talk entitled, Where Do Innovations Come From? Lessons for Nanotechnology.
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<em>Disrupting Science</em> by Kelly Moore
In the gateway seminar to the Technology and Society PhD emphasis, which this quarter is being led by Bruce Bimber, there was a discussion a few weeks back on the ethics of scientific participation in various kinds of military research. As luck would have it, I had been planning to read Disrupting Science by Kelly Moore, which examines how scientists in the late 1940s through early 1970s contested the relationship between the military and science (and scientists as individuals and universities as major employers of scientists for that matter).
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<em>Web Campaigning</em> by Kirsten Foot and Steven Schneider
As the 2008 campaign continues, I thought I would make note of a recent book, Web Campaigning, by Kirsten Foot and Steven Schneider that folks might be interested in. The book uses a broad constellation of data on websites from various levels of races to trace how campaigns have been using websites and Internet-enabled tools.
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On Nano and Historical Analogies
Science Progress
May 7, 2008
It’s Just Like That, Except Different
The Power of Analogy In Describing Nanotechnology
By W. Patrick McCray
Historical analogies have power. Is Iraq circa 2008 like Southeast
Asia in 1968? Can one think of the United
States, as Cullen Murphy suggests, as an imperial power
whose recent history and future fate compares with ancient Rome? Historical analogies help frame policy
debates and, while they do not establish proof, they suggest possibility. For
the broader public, analogies also generate useful connections and relations,
emotional as well as logical. At the same time, false or poorly constructed
analogies can promote misunderstandings and even bad policy.
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CNS-UCSB Event: Where Do Innovations Come From? Lessons for Nanotechnology
The NSF Center for Nanotechnology in Society Presents
Prof. Fred Block
Where Do Innovations Come From?
Lessons for Nanotechnology
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
2001 Engineering Sciences Building
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