Cuba S Digital Revolution
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Cuba S Digital Revolution
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Author : Ted A. Henken
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Cuba S Digital Revolution written by Ted A. Henken and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with Social Science categories.
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.
Cuba S Digital Revolution
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Author : Ted A. Henken
language : en
Publisher: University of Florida Press
Release Date : 2022-09-20
Cuba S Digital Revolution written by Ted A. Henken and has been published by University of Florida Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-20 with categories.
"This volume argues that recent technological developments are reconfiguring the cultural, economic, social, and political spheres of Cuba's Revolutionary project in unprecedented ways"--
Digital Dilemmas
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Author : Cristina Venegas
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-19
Digital Dilemmas written by Cristina Venegas and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-19 with Social Science categories.
The contentious debate in Cuba over Internet use and digital media primarily focuses on three issuesùmaximizing the potential for economic and cultural development, establishing stronger ties to the outside world, and changing the hierarchy of control. A growing number of users decry censorship and insist on personal freedom in accessing the web, while the centrally managed system benefits the government in circumventing U.S. sanctions against the country and in controlling what limited capacity exists. 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. She includes 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. This book is a model for understanding the geopolitic location of power relations in the age of digital information sharing.
The Politics Of The Internet In Third World Development
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Author : Bert Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-10
The Politics Of The Internet In Third World Development written by Bert Hoffmann and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10 with Computers categories.
This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the 'digital divide' tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the political regime type, the pursued development model and the specific configuration of actors and decision-making dynamics. Two starkly contrasting Third World countries, state-socialist Cuba and the Latin America's ""show-case democracy"" Costa Rica, were chosen for two in-depth empirical country s.
Cuba
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Author : Dudley Seers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-09
Cuba written by Dudley Seers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09 with History categories.
This book examines the economic and social developments in Cuba since the Castro government came to power in 1959.
Cuba
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Author : Professor Jorge I Doma-Nguez
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Cuba written by Professor Jorge I Doma-Nguez and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with Political Science categories.
Upon publication in the late 1970s this book was the first major historical analysis of twentieth-century Cuba. Focusing on the way Cuba has been governed, and in particular on the way a changing elite has made claims to legitimate rule, it carefully examines each of Cuba's three main political eras: the first, from Independence in 1902 to the Presidency of Gerardo Machado in 1933; the second, under Batista, from 1934 until 1958; and finally, Castro's revolution, from 1959 to the present. Jorge Domínguez discusses the political roles played by interest groups, mass organizations, and the military. He also investigates the impact of international affairs on Cuba and provides the first printed data on many aspects of political, economic, and social change since 1959. He deals in depth with agrarian politics and peasant protest since 1937, and his concluding chapter on Cuba's present culture is a fascinating insight into a society which--though vitally important--remains mysterious to most readers in the United States. Cuba's role in international affairs is vastly greater than its size. The revolution led by Fidel Castro, the Bay of Pigs invasion, the missile crisis in 1962, the underwriting of revolution in Latin America and recently in Africa--all these events have thrust Cuba onto the modern world stage. Anyone hoping to understand this country and its people, and above all its changing systems of government, will find this book essential.
Cuba
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Author : Janette Habel
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1991
Cuba written by Janette Habel and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Business & Economics categories.
Revolutionary Cuba today faces challenges and perils greater than at any time since the defeat of the US-backed 'Bay of Pigs' invasion in 1961. The Soviet Union, Cuba's main ally, is both weakened and divided, the Sandinistas are now in opposition, and remaining Communist governments are everywhere in crisis. These developments have combined with Cuba's domestic problems to place the revolution under threat. In this thorough but critical study, Janette Habel shows that, despite great achievements in public health and education, a malaise has developed in Cuban society. Detailing the arbitrary limits set upon popular participation and the absence of a properly functioning socialist democracy, she reveals a dangerous ossification of Cuba's once innovative and radical order, and a growing alienation of youth. This scrupulous account of the perils facing the Cuban revolution never forgets the appalling external pressures under which this small state labours. But it insists that only a bold new policy of revolutionary democracy offers the prospect of conserving--and building upon--the gains of the revolution.
Cuba In The Shadow Of Change
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Author : Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Cuba In The Shadow Of Change written by Amelia Rosenberg Weinreb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
"Amelia Weinreb takes readers deep inside the everyday life of middle-class Cubans - arguably the majority of citizens on the island. Un-theorized and under-described, it is a group that is portrayed honestly, accurately, and empathetically. The political and economic systems of Cuba in the post-Soviet period pose ongoing challenges to ordinary Cubans as they struggle in the waning years of the Castro regime. Weinreb demonstrates that the major reason they have been ignored in the scholarly literature is because remaining obscure is one of their strategies for coping with these challenges. Weinreb has made repeated visits to the island, frequently living in local communities along with her family. Thus her ethnography of this 'shadow public' is based upon traditional participant-observer methodology. Her experiences - from the clothesline, the back bedroom, the kitchen table, and the living room sofa - allow her an unprecedented opportunity to bring to outside readers the reality of daily life in Cuba, and she includes an epilogue that addresses citizen and consumer changes that have taken place since Raúl Castro became president in February 2008"--Publisher's description.
Cuba
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Author : Lowry Nelson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972-07-25
Cuba written by Lowry Nelson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972-07-25 with History categories.
Cuba was first published in 1972. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. How has the revolution affected the lives of the Cuban people? Are they better off now than before Castro came to power in 1959? If so, in what ways? This book presents a careful measurement of the economic, social, and political consequences of the Cuban revolution. The findings are conclusions are likely to upset common assumptions about Castro's Cuba and to prove discouraging to those who have been optimistic about the ultimate benefits of the revolution. Lowery Nelson is particularly qualified to assess present-day Cuba for he is the author of an earlier landmark study, Rural Cuba, published in 1950 by the University of Minnesota Press (Fidel Castro said in 1959 that his regime was adopting many of the reform measures which Dr. Nelson recommended in Rural Cuba). In his new book Dr. Nelson traces the early years of the revolution from 1953-1959 and provides a brief history of the island prior to the time. He then devotes several chapters to a study, largely economic, of agricultural production and the mark-up of the labor force both before and since the revolution. In the third portion of the book, sociological in nature, he discusses education, social institutions, and social structure in the two periods. With ample documentation the author shows that on the eve of the revolution Cuba's capitalistic economy was relatively prosperous whereas under the socialist-communist Castro regime virtually every aspect of productivity has lagged. He attributes the decline not only to governmental mismanagement but also to low morale on the part of workers who, he says, have lost faith in the regime and its goals. Cubans have lost personal and political freedoms too, he finds, and in conclusion he says that the revolution has been a tragedy for Cuba and its people.
The Revolution From Within
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Author : Michael J. Bustamante
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-01
The Revolution From Within written by Michael J. Bustamante and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-01 with History categories.
What does the Cuban Revolution look like “from within?" This volume proposes that scholars and observers of Cuba have too long looked elsewhere—from the United States to the Soviet Union—to write the island's post-1959 history. Drawing on previously unexamined archives, the contributors explore the dynamics of sociopolitical inclusion and exclusion during the Revolution's first two decades. They foreground the experiences of Cubans of all walks of life, from ordinary citizens and bureaucrats to artists and political leaders, in their interactions with and contributions to the emerging revolutionary state. In essays on agrarian reform, the environment, dance, fashion, and more, contributors enrich our understanding of the period beginning with the utopic mobilizations of the early 1960s and ending with the 1980 Mariel boatlift. In so doing, they offer new perspectives on the Revolution that are fundamentally driven by developments on the island. Bringing together new historical research with comparative and methodological reflections on the challenges of writing about the Revolution, The Revolution from Within highlights the political stakes attached to Cuban history after 1959. Contributors. Michael J. Bustamante, María A. Cabrera Arús, María del Pilar Díaz Castañón, Ada Ferrer, Alejandro de la Fuente, Reinaldo Funes Monzote, Lillian Guerra, Jennifer L. Lambe, Jorge Macle Cruz, Christabelle Peters, Rafael Rojas, Elizabeth Schwall, Abel Sierra Madero