Cuba's digital revolution : citizen innovation and state policy / edited by Ted A. Henken and Sara Garcia Santamaria. - 1 online resource (viii, 336 pages) : illustrations. - Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America .

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction. In Medias Res: Who Will Control Cuba's Digital Revolution? / PART I. History, Media, and Technology -- The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuban Internet / Historical Itineraries and Cyclic Trajectories: Alternative Media, Communication Technologies, and Social Change in Cuba / PART II. Politics -- ICT, State Power, and Civil Society: Cuban Internet Development in the Context of the Normalization of Relations with the United States / Ghost in the Machine: The Incompatibility of Cuba's State Media Monopoly with the Existence of Independent Digital Media and the -- Democratization of Communication / The Press Model in Cuba: Between Ideological Hegemony and the Reinvention of Civic Journalism / Digital Critique in Cuba / PART III. Journalism -- From Generación Y to 14y medio: Beyond the Blog on Cuba's Digital Frontier / Independent Journalism in Cuba: Between Fantasy and the Ontological Rupture / Perceptions of and Strategies for Autonomy among Journalists Working for Cuban State Media / Independent Media on the Margins: Two Cases of Journalistic Professionalization in Cuba's Digital Media Ecosystem / PART IV. Business and Economy -- Online Marketing of Touristic Cuba: Branding a "Tech-Free" Destination / "A Una Cuba Alternativa?" Digital Millennials, Social Influencing, and Cuentapropismo in Havana / PART V. Culture and Society -- Without Initiation Ceremonies: Cuban Literary and Cultural E-zines, 2000-2010 / Images of Ourselves: Cuban Mediascapes and the Postsocialist "Woman of Fashion" / Ted A. Henken -- Larry Press -- Edel Lima Sarmiento -- Olga Khrustaleva -- Alexei Padilla Herrera and Eloy Viera Cañive -- Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Arechavaleta -- Marie Laure Geoffray -- Ted A. Henken -- Sara Garcia Santamaria -- Anne Natvig -- Abel Somohano Fernández and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez -- Rebecca Ogden -- Jennifer Cearns -- Walfrido Dorta -- Paloma Duong

"This volume argues that recent technological developments are reconfiguring the cultural, economic, social, and political spheres of Cuba's Revolutionary project in unprecedented ways"--



9781683402374

2020045518


Information technology--Cuba.
Technological innovations--Social aspects--Cuba.
Information society--Cuba.
Digital communications--Cuba.
Written communication--Technological innovations--Cuba.


Electronic Books.

HC79 / .C833 2021