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Digital Dilemmas : The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba / Cristina Venegas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Directions in International StudiesPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (250 p.) : 11 illustrations. 11 photosContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813546865
  • 9780813549101
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.23/1097291 22
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780813549101

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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