TY  - BOOK
AU  - Venegas,Cristina
TI  - Digital dilemmas: the state, the individual, and digital media in Cuba 
T2  - New directions in international studies
SN  - 9780813549101
AV  - P92.C9 V46 2010
U1  - 302.23/1097291 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Digital media
KW  - Internet
KW  - Mass media policy
KW  - Social change
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Media Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ethnic Studies
KW  - Hispanic American Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1990-
KW  - Electronic book
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Inventing, recycling, and deploying technologies -- Media technologies and "Cuban democracy" -- Tourism and the social ramifications of media technologies -- Film culture in the digital millennium -- Digital communities and the pleasures of technology
N2  - 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, including 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
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