Cristina Venegas

Digital Dilemmas

The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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. 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780813546872
• ISBN-10: 0813546877
• Artikelnr.: 26526202

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
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