BRUCE BIMBER
University of California, Santa Barbara
Bruce Bimber is Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and Professor in the departments of Political Science and Communication at UC Santa Barbara Barbara.
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.
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 for Best Book on Science, Technology and Politics, and Campaigning Online: The Internet in U.S. Elections (Oxford University Press, 2003, with Richard Davis), which 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 articles dealing with technology and politics. He has a doctorate in Political Science from MIT, and a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford.
e-mail: bimber@cits.ucsb.edu
Phone: 805.893.3860
Fax: 805.893.3309
Mail:
Dept. of Political Science 9420
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9420
Office Locations:
Ellison Hall 3809 (Political Science)
North Hall 2215 (CITS)