ISBN:
1683402375
,
9781683402374
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 336 pages)
,
illustrations
Series Statement:
Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cuba's digital revolution
DDC:
303.48/3097291
Keywords:
Information technology
;
Technological innovations Social aspects
;
Information society
;
Digital communications
;
Written communication Technological innovations
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
;
Digital communications
;
Information society
;
Information technology
;
Technological innovations ; Social aspects
;
Written communication ; Technological innovations
;
Cuba
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Introduction. In Medias Res: Who Will Control Cuba's Digital Revolution? / Ted A. Henken -- PART I. History, Media, and Technology -- The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuban Internet / Larry Press -- Historical Itineraries and Cyclic Trajectories: Alternative Media, Communication Technologies, and Social Change in Cuba / Edel Lima Sarmiento -- PART II. Politics -- ICT, State Power, and Civil Society: Cuban Internet Development in the Context of the Normalization of Relations with the United States / Olga Khrustaleva -- Ghost in the Machine: The Incompatibility of Cuba's State Media Monopoly with the Existence of Independent Digital Media and the -- Democratization of Communication / Alexei Padilla Herrera and Eloy Viera Cañive -- The Press Model in Cuba: Between Ideological Hegemony and the Reinvention of Civic Journalism / Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Arechavaleta -- Digital Critique in Cuba / Marie Laure Geoffray -- PART III. Journalism -- From Generación Y to 14y medio: Beyond the Blog on Cuba's Digital Frontier / Ted A. Henken -- Independent Journalism in Cuba: Between Fantasy and the Ontological Rupture / Sara Garcia Santamaria -- Perceptions of and Strategies for Autonomy among Journalists Working for Cuban State Media / Anne Natvig -- Independent Media on the Margins: Two Cases of Journalistic Professionalization in Cuba's Digital Media Ecosystem / Abel Somohano Fernández and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez -- PART IV. Business and Economy -- Online Marketing of Touristic Cuba: Branding a "Tech-Free" Destination / Rebecca Ogden -- "A Una Cuba Alternativa?" Digital Millennials, Social Influencing, and Cuentapropismo in Havana / Jennifer Cearns -- PART V. Culture and Society -- Without Initiation Ceremonies: Cuban Literary and Cultural E-zines, 2000-2010 / Walfrido Dorta -- Images of Ourselves: Cuban Mediascapes and the Postsocialist "Woman of Fashion" / Paloma Duong
Abstract:
"This volume argues that recent technological developments are reconfiguring the cultural, economic, social, and political spheres of Cuba's Revolutionary project in unprecedented ways"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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