Miriam Metzger, the associate director of the Center for Film, Television and New Media at UC Santa Barbara, will discuss research on privacy and social networking sites at 2 p.m. Thurs., Feb. 11 in the Roth Nelson Room at California Lutheran University, on Mountclef Boulevard near Memorial Parkway in Thousand Oaks.

Metzger will present “Privacy 2.0: Managing Privacy in Social Networking Environments” as part of the Center for Equality and Justice Faculty Lecture Series.

Metzger’s work examines how Facebook users manage their privacy. The presentation will discuss research on privacy and social networking sites, focusing on how users balance their concerns about privacy with their desire to connect socially and publicly.

Data from recent research on Facebook users will be presented. Metzger has served as a consultant to the MacArthur Foundation, the New Media Consortium and the National Library of Medicine based on her work on Internet credibility. She recently co-edited “Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility,” published by MIT Press.

CLU’s Center for Equality and Justice is sponsoring the free presentation.

For more information, e-mail Gregory Freeland at freeland @callutheran.edu or call (805) 493-3477.