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Title Cuba's digital revolution : citizen innovation and state policy / edited by Ted A. Henken and Sara Garcia Santamaria
Published Gainesville : University of Florida Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 336 pages) : illustrations
Series Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America
Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.
Contents Introduction. In Medias Res: Who Will Control Cuba's Digital Revolution? / Ted A. Henken -- PART I. History, Media, and Technology -- The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuban Internet / Larry Press -- Historical Itineraries and Cyclic Trajectories: Alternative Media, Communication Technologies, and Social Change in Cuba / Edel Lima Sarmiento -- PART II. Politics -- ICT, State Power, and Civil Society: Cuban Internet Development in the Context of the Normalization of Relations with the United States / Olga Khrustaleva -- Ghost in the Machine: The Incompatibility of Cuba's State Media Monopoly with the Existence of Independent Digital Media and the -- Democratization of Communication / Alexei Padilla Herrera and Eloy Viera Cañive -- The Press Model in Cuba: Between Ideological Hegemony and the Reinvention of Civic Journalism / Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Arechavaleta -- Digital Critique in Cuba / Marie Laure Geoffray -- PART III. Journalism -- From Generación Y to 14y medio: Beyond the Blog on Cuba's Digital Frontier / Ted A. Henken -- Independent Journalism in Cuba: Between Fantasy and the Ontological Rupture / Sara Garcia Santamaria -- Perceptions of and Strategies for Autonomy among Journalists Working for Cuban State Media / Anne Natvig -- Independent Media on the Margins: Two Cases of Journalistic Professionalization in Cuba's Digital Media Ecosystem / Abel Somohano Fernández and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez -- PART IV. Business and Economy -- Online Marketing of Touristic Cuba: Branding a "Tech-Free" Destination / Rebecca Ogden -- "A Una Cuba Alternativa?" Digital Millennials, Social Influencing, and Cuentapropismo in Havana / Jennifer Cearns -- PART V. Culture and Society -- Without Initiation Ceremonies: Cuban Literary and Cultural E-zines, 2000-2010 / Walfrido Dorta -- Images of Ourselves: Cuban Mediascapes and the Postsocialist "Woman of Fashion" / Paloma Duong
Summary "This volume argues that recent technological developments are reconfiguring the cultural, economic, social, and political spheres of Cuba's Revolutionary project in unprecedented ways"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 13, 2021)
Subject Information technology -- Cuba
Technological innovations -- Social aspects -- Cuba
Information society -- Cuba
Digital communications -- Cuba
Written communication -- Technological innovations -- Cuba
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies
Digital communications
Information society
Information technology
Technological innovations -- Social aspects
Written communication -- Technological innovations
Cuba
Form Electronic book
Author Henken, Ted, editor
Garcia Santamaria, Sara, 1984- editor.
LC no. 2020045518
ISBN 1683402375
9781683402374