Director of UCSB Center for Information Technology and Society and Associate Professor of Political Science and Communication at UC Santa Barbara
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Bruce Bimber is founder and director of the UCSB Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS). His research examines the relationship between evolving information technology and changes in human behavior, especially in the domains of political organization, collective action, social capital, and political deliberation. His book Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003) won the Don K. Price Award for Best Book on Science, Technology and Politics. His book Campaigning Online: The Internet in U.S. Elections (Oxford Univ. Press, 2003, with Richard Davis) won the McGannon Communication Policy Award for social and ethical relevance in communication policy research. Bimber is also author of The Politics of Expertise in Congress: The Rise and Fall of the Office of Technology Assessment (SUNY Press, 1996), and of articles dealing with technology and politics. He has a doctorate in Political Science from MIT, and a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. Prior to joining the UCSB faculty, he worked for RAND in Washington, D.C., in a policy analysis department contracted to provide advice to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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