TY  - BOOK
AU  - Venegas,Cristina
TI  - Digital Dilemmas: The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba 
T2  - New Directions in International Studies
SN  - 9780813546865
U1  - 302.23/1097291 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New Brunswick, NJ : 
PB  - Rutgers University Press, 
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Internet
KW  - Mass media policy
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social change
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Acronyms --; Introduction --; 1. Inventing, Recycling, and Deploying Technologies --; 2. Media Technologies and "Cuban Democracy" --; 3. Tourism and the Social Ramifications of Media Technologies --; 4. Film Culture in the Digital Millennium --; 5. Digital Communities and the Pleasures of Technology --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; About the author; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The contentious debate in Cuba over Internet use and digital media primarily focuses on three issuesùmaximizing the potential for economic and cultural development, establishing stronger ties to the outside world, and changing the hierarchy of control. A growing number of users decry censorship and insist on personal freedom in accessing the web, while the centrally managed system benefits the government in circumventing U.S. sanctions against the country and in controlling what limited capacity exists. 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. She includes 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. This book is a model for understanding the geopolitic location of power relations in the age of digital information sharing
UR  - https://doi.org/10.36019/9780813549101
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