Cuba’s Digital Revolution (eBook)

Citizen Innovation and State Policy

Ted A. Henken, Sara Garcia Santamaria (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
348 Seiten
University of Florida Press (Verlag)
978-1-68340-365-4 (ISBN)

Infos

 A wide-ranging examination of the ways digital technologies are impacting Cuba’s Revolutionary project 

The triumph of the Cuban Revolution gave the Communist Party a monopoly over both politics and the mass media. However, with the subsequent global proliferation of new information and communication technologies, Cuban citizens have become active participants in the worldwide digital revolution. While the Cuban internet has long been characterized by censorship, high costs, slow speeds, and limited access, this volume argues that since 2013, technological developments have allowed for a fundamental reconfiguration of the cultural, economic, social, and political spheres of the Revolutionary project.



The essays in this volume cover various transformations within this new digital revolution, examining both government-enabled paid public web access and creative workarounds that Cubans have designed to independently produce, distribute, and access digital content. Contributors trace how media ventures, entrepreneurship, online marketing, journalism, and cultural e-zines have been developing on the island alongside global technological and geopolitical changes.



As Cuba continues to expand internet access and as citizens challenge state policies on the speed, breadth, and freedom of that access, Cuba’s Digital Revolution provides a fascinating example of the impact of technology in authoritarian states and transitional democracies. While the streets of Cuba may still belong to Castro’s Revolution, this volume argues that it is still unclear to whom Cuban cyberspace belongs.  



Contributors: Larry Press | Edel Lima Sarmiento | Olga Khrustaleva | Alexei Padilla Herrera | Eloy Viera Cañive | Marie Laure Geoffray | Ted A. Henken | Sara Garcia Santamaria | Anne Natvig | Carlos Manuel Rodríguez Arechavaleta | Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Ph.D.| Abel Somohano Fernández | Rebecca Ogden | Jennifer Cearns | Walfrido Dorta | Paloma Duong



A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez



Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Gewicht: 662 g
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 5G • Alternative Media • building policy • Castro • citizen journalism • Civil Society • Communist Party • Cuban Internet • Cuban Revolution • Cuban telecom sector • Digital Democracy • digital journals • Digital Revolution • el paquete • Entrepreneurs • Etecsa • e-zines • Government censorship • government-enabled web access • icts • Independent Media • Information and Communication Technologies • Internet • ldictator’s dilemma • liberation technology • Limited access • municipal networks • networked authoritarianism • networked public sphere • policymaking • press history in Cuba • private self-censorship • Public sphere • Satellite • technological innovations • technological sovereignty • Wi-Fi
• ISBN-10: 1-68340-365-7 / 1683403657
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68340-365-4 / 9781683403654