Description: 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.
Review Quotes: "Cristina Venegas's well-researched and highly original work brings to the forefront an important and under-researched topic."--Yiedy Rivero "author of Tuning Out Blackness" (1/16/2009 12:00:00 AM)