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Digital culture in Cuba is a tangle of overlapping spheres of expression and experiences. These zones form interconnections made up of individuals, commerce, and the state. The resulting geography reveals the movement of capital, the power of stakeholders, and spaces of intimacy. It is a map of interrelated consciousness. As such, Cuba s digital culture depends on local histories and characteristics, and responds to transnational exchanges and relays. By examining artifacts, like old Soviet Radar Base in the Cuban province of Lourdes, media infrastructures, popular adaptations of inaccessible channels of communication, and cross-media digital production, the talk explores questions about the nature and location of Cuba s digital environments, and what they tell us about ways of living and learning that develop despite controls on information and activity. Cristina Venegas is Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at UCSB. Her research focuses on international media with an emphasis on Latin America, Spanish-language film and television in the U.S., and digital technologies. Her forthcoming book is titled Digital Dilemma about Cuba s digital media since the 1990s.Originally recorded May 8, 2008 at UC Santa Barbara.

James Frew is a member of the CITS faculty steering committee and faculty in the Donald Bren School Environmental Science and Management. Professor Frew's talk explore the idea that scientists are increasingly being called upon to publish data as well as conclusions. Computational science, in particular, often involves the creation of data products as a primary goal, rather than simply a means to an end. To have the same confidence in data that we have in peer-reviewed, appropriately-cited conclusions, we need mechanisms for capturing and conveying the origins and processing history -- the provenance -- of digital information. In this talk Professor Frew will provide an overview of the data provenance problem and illustrate some emerging solutions. Lecture originally at UC Santa Barbara recorded March 13, 2008.

Policing the People, Peopling the Police: A Social Computing Approach to Information Authority in the Age of Web 2.0. Alan Liu is a Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. As instanced by well-known controversies regarding Wikipedia and other collection points for socially produced information, the era of so-called Web 2.0 presents new challenges for research in an area that is variously called information credibility, authority, trust, and quality. In this talk, Alan Liu describes an integrated technological, social, and humanities/arts approach to the problem of information authority, then concentrates on a social computing approach now being brainstormed by the UCSB Social Computing Group in conjunction with the UC Transliteracies Project. Originally recorded February 21, 2008.

For the past two decades, Dr. Mayer and his colleagues at the University of California, Santa Barbara, have been investigating ways to improve learning with multimedia instructional materials. In this presentation he will share the fruits of their efforts, based on 70 experimental comparisons between multimedia lessons that are consistent or inconsistent with a particular design principle. Overall, Professor Mayer will review 10 research-based tactics for how to design Web-based and paper-based multimedia instructional materials. Originally recorded January 31, 2008.

Origianlly recorded December 6, 2007. Professor Lisa Parks presents work on wireless telephony in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. Using a critical practice called footprint analysis, she maps wireless coverage zones and describes localized conditions within them. This geo-annotative practice moves between cartography and ethnography, in an effort to explore media not only as texts, but as systems of distribution, patterns of everyday life and cultural atmospherics. In so doing she demonstrates that public wireless telephony in Ulaanbaatar has emerged that employs a new class of workers, combines the collectivist ethos of communism with aspects of digital capitalism, and reinvents nomadic practices in urban space.

John Dunbar, Project Manager for the Center for Public Integrity, discusses the results and implications of the recently released “Networks of Influence: The Political Power of the Communications Industry,” which examines the political influence of the communications industry on Congress. [Public Affairs] [Humanities]

Attorney Michael Pfau discusses the three rules of private investing: people, people, people. According to Pfau, the key need of a technology start-up company is to pick the right people who have the ability to work together and the ability to understand exactly what it is that they intend to market. Prsented by the Technology Management Program at UCSB. [Business]

Born between 1962-1982, Gen-Xers grew up with computers, video games, and MTV. Who are they and what are their values, beliefs, and world views? Wade Clark Roof, Director of the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life at UCSB explores how are they changing American religion and notions of spirituality. [Humanities]

Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Martin Luther King, Jr.,Taylor Branch explores America in the King years, 1965-68. Presented by the Walter H. Capps Center at UCSB. [Public Affairs] [Humanities]

Josh Silver, executive director of FreePress.net, discusses the grassroots effort to reform the media in this video interview conducted at the UC Santa Barbara Forum on Digital Transitions. Formats: H.264 m4v for iPod; 25.8MB; 4:29; Ourmedia page | watch video; video quality: *** (out of 5) MPEG-4; 21.3MB; 4:29; 320x240px; Ourmedia page | watch video; video quality: ** (out of 5) Tags: Josh Silver, Free Press, reform, media, activism, politics, citizen journalism