Digital Dilemmas The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba
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Biografisk notat
Cristina Venegas is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.Digital Dilemmas The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba
"Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic." - Yiedy Rivero (author of Tuning Out Blackness) "This book will make an important contribution both to Cuban studies and to Hispanic media studies." - Marvin D'Lugo (Clark University) "A nuanced analysis based on careful research and firsthand experience. This work will benefit readers interested in Cuba's recent transformation and also those seeking to understand the emergence of new media in Latin America and the challenges digital culture poses. Highly recommended." (Choice) "Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic." - Yiedy Rivero (author of Tuning Out Blackness) "This book will make an important contribution both to Cuban studies and to Hispanic media studies." - Marvin D'Lugo (Clark University) "A nuanced analysis based on careful research and firsthand experience. This work will benefit readers interested in Cuba's recent transformation and also those seeking to understand the emergence of new media in Latin America and the challenges digital culture poses. Highly recommended." (Choice)
Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture. She includes film in the context of broader media history, as well as artistic practices such as digital art and networks of diasporic communities connected by the Web. This book is a model for understanding the geopolitic location of power relations in the age of digital information sharing.
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Inventing, Recycling, and Deploying Technologies
2 Media Technologies and "Cuban Democracy"
3 Tourism and the Social Ramifications of 3 Media Technologies
4 Film Culture in the Digital Millennium
5 Digital Communities and the Pleasures of Technology
Conclusion
"Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic." - Yiedy Rivero (author of Tuning Out Blackness) "This book will make an important contribution both to Cuban studies and to Hispanic media studies." - Marvin D'Lugo (Clark University) "A nuanced analysis based on careful research and firsthand experience. This work will benefit readers interested in Cuba's recent transformation and also those seeking to understand the emergence of new media in Latin America and the challenges digital culture poses. Highly recommended." (Choice) "Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic." - Yiedy Rivero (author of Tuning Out Blackness) "This book will make an important contribution both to Cuban studies and to Hispanic media studies." - Marvin D'Lugo (Clark University) "A nuanced analysis based on careful research and firsthand experience. This work will benefit readers interested in Cuba's recent transformation and also those seeking to understand the emergence of new media in Latin America and the challenges digital culture poses. Highly recommended." (Choice)
Digital Dilemmas views Cuba from the Soviet Union's demise to the present, to assess how conflicts over media access play out in their both liberating and repressive potential. Drawing on extensive scholarship and interviews, Cristina Venegas questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture. She includes film in the context of broader media history, as well as artistic practices such as digital art and networks of diasporic communities connected by the Web. This book is a model for understanding the geopolitic location of power relations in the age of digital information sharing.
List of Acronyms
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Inventing, Recycling, and Deploying Technologies
2 Media Technologies and "Cuban Democracy"
3 Tourism and the Social Ramifications of 3 Media Technologies
4 Film Culture in the Digital Millennium
5 Digital Communities and the Pleasures of Technology
Conclusion