Bruce Bimber is Professor in the departments of Political Science and (by affiliation) Communication at UC Santa Barbara, and Director Emeritus of the Center for Information Technology and Society. He studies political communication, and his research examines the relationship between digital media and patterns in human behavior, especially in the domains of political organization and collective action.
He is currently writing his fourth book, The Transformation of Collective Life, with co-authors Andrew Flanagin and Cynthia Stohl, and with funding from the National Science Foundation. It will appear with Cambridge University Press in 2010. He is author of Information and American Democracy (Cambridge, 2003), which won the Don K. Price Award from the American Political Science Association for Best Book on Science, Technology and Politics, and which has been translated into Arabic and Korean, with a Chinese edition in preparation. His book Campaigning Online (Oxford, 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 (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 of science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford. He has taught at UCSB since 1993.
Prof. Bimber lives with his wife in the mountains above the Gaviota Coast.
Classes:
PS
12 American Government & Politics
PS 197abc- Honors Seminar - Fall '09
PS 266 - Contemp. Problems in Am. Gov.
PS 503 - Dissertation Workshop
PS
594N - Technology & Society Colloq.
PS 594PC - Political Communication
Contact:
Office: Ellison Hall 3708
Email: bimber [ at ] cits.ucsb.edu
Phone: 805.694.8386
Mail:
Dept. of Political Science
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
93106-9420
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