Digital Dilemmas: The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba

by Cristina Venegas

Overview

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, including 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813549101
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	01/19/2010
Series:	New Directions in International Studies
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Cristina Venegas is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations ix

Acknowledgments xi

List of Acronyms xv

Introduction 1

Inventing, Recycling, and Deploying Technologies 35

Media Technologies and "Cuban Democracy" 67

Tourism and the Social Ramifications of Media Technologies 98

Film Culture in the Digital Millennium 332

Digital Communities and the Pleasures of Technology 155

Conclusion 183

Notes 389

Bibliography 211

Index 221

Editorial Reviews

"Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic."

author of Tuning Out Blackness - Yiedy Rivero

"This book will make an important contribution both to Cuban studies and to Hispanic media studies."

Clark University - Marvin D'Lugo

"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

"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."

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