List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction. In Medias Res: Who Will Control Cuba’s Digital Revolution?
Ted A. Henken
Part I. History, Media, and Technology
Chapter 1. The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuban Internet
Larry Press
Chapter 2. Historical Itineraries and Cyclic Trajectories: Alternative Media, Communication Technologies, and Social Change in Cuba
Edel Lima Sarmiento
Part II. Politics
Chapter 3. ICT, State Power, and Civil Society: Cuban Internet Development in the Context of the Normalization of Relations with the United States
Olga Khrustaleva
Chapter 4. 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
Chapter 5. The Press Model in Cuba: Between Ideological Hegemony and the Reinvention of Civic Journalism
Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Arechavaleta
Chapter 6. Digital Critique in Cuba
Marie Laure Geoffray
Part III. Journalism
Chapter 7. From Generación Y to 14ymedio: Beyond the Blog on Cuba’s Digital Frontier
Ted A. Henken
Chapter 8. Independent Journalism in Cuba: Between Fantasy and the Ontological Rupture
Sara Garcia Santamaria
Chapter 9. Perceptions of and Strategies for Autonomy among Journalists Working for Cuban State Media
Anne Natvig
Chapter 10. 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
Chapter 11. Online Marketing of Touristic Cuba: Branding a “Tech-Free” Destination
Rebecca Ogden
Chapter 12. “A Una Cuba Alternativa”? Digital Millennials, Social Influencing, and Cuentapropismo in Havana
Jennifer Cearns
PART V. Culture and Society
Chapter 13. Without Initiation Ceremonies: Cuban Literary and Cultural Ezines
Walfrido Dorta
Chapter 14. Images of Ourselves: Cuban Mediascapes and the Postsocialist “Woman of Fashion”
Paloma Duong
Notes
List of Contributors
Index
