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Digital Humanities in Latin America

Name: Digital Humanities in Latin America
Author: Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste
ISBN: 9781683403753

Edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Published by: University of Florida Press

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

This volume provides a hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas. These essays examine how participation and research in new media have helped configure new identities and collectivities in the region.

318 Pages6.13 × 9.253 b/w illus, 1 table

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A hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas

As digital media and technologies transform the study of the humanities around the world, this volume provides the first hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas. These essays examine how participation and research in new media have helped configure identities and collectivities in the region.

Featuring case studies from throughout Latin America, including the United States Latinx community, contributors analyze documentary films, television series, and social media to show how digital technologies create hybrid virtual spaces and facilitate connections across borders. They investigate how Latinx bloggers and online activists navigate governmental restrictions in order to connect with the global online community. These essays also incorporate perspectives of race, gender, and class that challenge the assumption that technology is a democratizing force.

Digital Humanities in Latin America illuminates the cultural, political, and social implications of the ways Latinx communities engage with new technologies. In doing so, it connects digital humanities research taking place in Latin America with that of the Anglophone world.

Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste is professor of world languages and Latin American cultures at Georgia State University’s World Languages and Cultures Department. He is the author of Lalo Alcaraz: Political Cartooning in the Latino Community. Juan Carlos Rodríguez (1975–2026) was associate professor of Spanish at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is coeditor of New Documentaries in Latin America.

“A valuable contribution to scholarly knowledge, combining contributions by a wide range of academics and practitioners and offering exciting case studies on lesser-studied regions and topics. In particular, it brings race much more clearly into view in Latin American digital humanities.”—Thea Pitman, coauthor of Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production
“This book brings together an excellent cadre of scholars to demonstrate convincingly that our media ecologies are not universal or homogeneous—that seeing through the eye of Latinx studies, we can refresh anew our understanding of technology in the twenty-first century.”—Alex Gil, Columbia University Libraries

“A series of dynamic essays that investigate and problematise the impact of technology and digital culture on Latinx America. . . . While ambitious in scope, the volume offers a diversity of perspectives and case studies that highlight the unique affordances and consequences of the digital divide throughout parts of the United States and Latin America.”—Bulletin of Latin American Research
“A collection of excellent articles dealing with the impact of digital technologies and media in Latin American culture.”—Revista de Estudios Hispánicos

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Introduction
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Chapter 1. Tech Disruption as Knowledge Production: Cuba and the Digital Humanities
Cristina Venegas

Chapter 2. The Media Machine: One Laptop per Child in Paraguay
Morgan Ames

Chapter 3. Nation Branding: Neo Liberalism, Identity, and Social Media
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste

Chapter 4. (In) Visible Cuba(s): Digital Conflict, Virtual Diasporas, and Cyber Mambises
Anastasia Valecce

Chapter 5. Digital Utopias, Latina/o Mediated Realities
Angharad N. Valdivia

Chapter 6. The Politics of Participation: La Bloga, Latino/a Cultural Politics, and the Limits of Digital Participatory Culture
Jennifer Lozano

Chapter 7. Afrolatin@ Digital Humanites or Rethinking Inclusion in the Digital Humanities
Eduard Arriaga

Chapter 8. Modularity, Mimesis and the Informatic Ideal: On Intersectional Struggles for Digital Human(itie)s in Latin America
Anita Say Chan

Chapter 9. Cuban Digital Pedagogies and the Question of the Interface in Yaima Pardo’s Offline
Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Chapter 10. Carnival, Hybridity, and Latin American Digital Humor: The Ecuadorian Case of Enchufe.tv
Paul Alonso

Chapter 11. No Blogger, No Cry Orlando
Luis Pardo Lazo

Chapter 12. Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD): Before 9/11 and After 9/11
Ricardo Domínguez

Chapter 13. On DH in Argentina, an Interview with Gimena del Rio
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Chapter 14. On DH in Brazil, an Interview with Ana Lígia Medeiros
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Chapter 15. On DH in Mexico, an Interview with Isabel Galina Russell
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez

Coda
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