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Cuba’s Digital Revolution

Name: Cuba’s Digital Revolution
Author: Ted A. Henken
ISBN: 9781683403517

Citizen Innovation and State Policy

Edited by Ted A. Henken and Sara Garcia Santamaria

Published by: University of Florida Press

Series: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America

A wide-ranging examination of the ways digital technologies are impacting Cuba’s Revolutionary projectThe triumph of the Cuban Revolution gave the Communist Party a monopoly over both politics and...

348 Pages6.13 × 9.25

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“An important contribution to the study of the Cuban media landscape. Cuba’s Digital Revolution examines changes brought about by recent expansion of Wi-Fi access points through attention to how independent journalism, media distribution, activism, entrepreneurship, and media culture are developing alongside local and global technological and political changes.”—Cristina Venegas, author of Digital Dilemmas: The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba
“Brilliant and insightful. Fills a gap in the study of African American literature and religion, which has traditionally assumed a Protestant theological and cultural landscape as the ground for discussions of religion and spirituality among the enslaved. Adds to our knowledge of how religious tropes, archetypes, and theological claims inform readings of African American literary texts.”—Katherine Clay Bassard, editor of Sketches of Slave Life and From Slave Cabin to the Pulpit
“A fresh, insightful reading of the African American neo-slave narrative genre. Promises to revise our understanding of not only the religious ideologies that justified slavery but also the narratives through which African Americans continue to engage America’s traumatic history and envision their own redemptive salvation. “—Sheldon George, author of Trauma and Race: A Lacanian Study of African American Racial Identity

“The most comprehensive English-language compendium on the contemporary aspects of Cuban internet practices, material forms, policies, and histories. . . . An instantly valuable resource.”—NACLA Report on the Americas
“Weaves together themes of dispute, repression, social activism, and ideology to illustrate the Cuban society of today where the official narrative silences the alternative discourse and knowledge, and citizens are learning to skillfully use digital media as an agent of change.”—Transmodernity

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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

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