Bruce Bimber is Professor in the departments of Political Science and Communication at UC Santa Barbara, and Director Emeritus of the Center for Information Technology and Society. His research examines the relationship between evolving information technology and patterns in human behavior, especially in the domains of political organization and collective action.

He is author of Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power (Cambridge University Press, 2003), which won the Don K. Price Award from the American Political Science Associaiton for Best Book on Science, Technology and Politics, and which has been translated into Arabic and Korean. His book Campaigning Online: The Internet in U.S. Elections (Oxford University Press, 2003, with Richard Davis), won the McGannon Communication Policy Award for social and ethical relevance in communication policy research. He 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 numerous articles dealing with technology, democracy, and public life. He has a doctorate in political science from MIT, and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford. He has taught at UCSB since 1993.

Bruce lives with his wife on a ranch in the mountains above the Gaviota Coast.