Digital Dilemmas - The State, the Individual, and Digital Media in Cuba

Informationen zum Autor Cristina Venegas is an associate professor of film and media studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext 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. 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. Zusammenfassung 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. This title questions myths of how Internet use necessarily fosters global democracy and reveals the impact of new technologies on the country's governance and culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations List of Acronyms Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Inventing, Recycling, and Deploying Technologies 2 Media Technologies and "Cuban Democracy" 3 Tourism and the Social Ramifications of 3 Media Technologies 4 Film Culture in the Digital Millennium 5 Digital Communities and the Pleasures of Technology Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Cristina Venegas
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.01.2010
• EAN: 9780813546872
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-4687-2
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: New Directions in Internationa; New Directions in Internationa
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore