Cuba's Digital Revolution

Ted A. Henken, associate professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Baruch College, City University of New York, is coauthor of Entrepreneurial Cuba: The Changing Policy Landscape and the author of Cuba: A Global Studies Handbook.Sara Garcia Santamaria, associate professor of global communication at Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, is coeditor of Media and Governance in Latin America: Towards a Plurality of Voices.

• List of FiguresList of Tables Introduction. In Medias Res: Who Will Control Cuba's Digital Revolution? PART I. History, Media, and Technology1. The Past, Present, and Future of the Cuban Internet 2. Historical Itineraries and Cyclic Trajectories: Alternative Media, Communication Technologies, and Social Change in Cuba PART II. Politics3. ICT, State Power, and Civil Society: Cuban Internet Development in the Context of the Normalization of Relations with the United States 4. Ghost in the Machine: The Incompatibility of Cuba's State Media Monopoly with the Existence of Independent Digital Media and the Democratization of Communication 5. The Press Model in Cuba: Between Ideological Hegemony and the Reinvention of Civic Journalism 6. Digital Critique in Cuba PART III. Journalism7. From Generación Y to 14ymedio: Beyond the Blog on Cuba's Digital Frontier 8. Independent Journalism in Cuba: Between Fantasy and the Ontological Rupture 9. Perceptions of and Strategies for Autonomy among Journalists Working for Cuban State Media 10. Independent Media on the Margins: Two Cases of Journalistic Professionalization in Cuba's Digital Media Ecosystem PART IV. Business and Economy11. Online Marketing of Touristic Cuba: Branding a "Tech-Free" Destination 12. "A Una Cuba Alternativa"? Digital Millennials, Social Influencing, and Cuentapropismo in Havana PART V. Culture and Society13. Without Initiation Ceremonies: Cuban Literary and Cultural Ezines14. Images of Ourselves: Cuban Mediascapes and the Postsocialist "Woman of Fashion" Notes List of Contributors Index

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