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Digital dilemmas : the state, the individual, and digital media in Cuba / Cristina Venegas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New directions in international studiesPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 229 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813549101
  • 0813549108
  • 1282562355
  • 9781282562356
  • 9786612562358
  • 6612562358
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Digital dilemmas.DDC classification:
  • 302.23/1097291 22
LOC classification:
  • P92.C9 V46 2010
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Contents:
Inventing, recycling, and deploying technologies -- Media technologies and "Cuban democracy" -- Tourism and the social ramifications of media technologies -- Film culture in the digital millennium -- Digital communities and the pleasures of technology.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Inventing, recycling, and deploying technologies -- Media technologies and "Cuban democracy" -- Tourism and the social ramifications of media technologies -- Film culture in the digital millennium -- Digital communities and the pleasures of technology.

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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.

English.

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