...The access to the internet in Cuba marks the beginning of a change and it brings new ways to debate on the socialist ideology reformulating the strategies to operate, dialogue, and accept any form of criticism. This chapter explores the role of the internet in Cuba from the perspective...

...This chapter analyses Yaima Pardo’s Offline to explore how the cross-fertilization of documentary and digital conventions can be used to reconstruct web navigation as an immersive experience that offers itself as a pedagogical intervention and critical interrogation of internet...

...After presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro began the process of bilateral “normalization” in December 2014, there were great expectations for change on both sides in many areas, including telecommunications. Indeed, some scholars and U.S. politicians have argued that Internet and technology...

...The introduction is divided into four sections. The first part is concerned with the theorizing of humor as a cultural activity. The second one deals with the internet as a media space and locus for trans-individuation and social cocreation. Part three brings these issues to the Latin American...

...This chapter discusses an apparent paradox. On the one hand, there has been a virtual explosion in Internet access, which has facilitated social movement organizing. On the other hand, there are tremendous obstacles to fully democratizing access and assuring that social movements take advantage...

...This book focuses on these changes through the creation, production, distribution, and consumption of a selection of television and Internet fiction, exploring the new mediascape that has taken root in Brazil since 2011. The objective is not to predict what that mediascape will be in the coming...

... of the Internet for artistic expression, and the transnational bonds that join far-flung communities....

...The conclusion discusses recent trends in political extremism. The revolution in communications enabled by Internet technology is driving many trends in political extremism, as it makes it easier for groups and individuals to receive and exchange information. Increasingly, a shared narrative...

... public outreach. González-Tennant describes the use of virtual-world environments, digital storytelling, and the Internet to translate academic research into public knowledge. The use of these emerging technologies is framed within a collaborative practice, and their use in Rosewood demonstrates how...

...The first two sections of this chapter review the history of the Cuban Internet and today’s limited public access and mobile and fixed connectivity. The third section describes forthcoming technology and suggests policy changes the Cuban government could make to take advantage of it. The Cuban...

... to the internet becomes another marker of difference. Afro Cubans Afrodescendants Digital activism Digital domain Digital technologies and tools Information and communications technologies ICT Internet Madianou Mirca Miller Daniel Pink Sarah Postill John Afrodescendant women and digital technology...

...One of the most significant developments in terms of communication since the 1990s involves the Internet's dissemination and diversification. The spread and exchange of information over the World Wide Web has moved towards global digital networks' macro level, local online communities' micro level...

...There are numerous conflicts ensuing in the Middle East, but not all are being fought with rockets and rifles. While the Internet has proven invaluable to those who wish to uphold a patriarchal society and spread the message of Islamic fundamentalism, Muslim women have used the Web to build...

...This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin American perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and Portuguese-language Internet, highlighting how the production and circulation of online humor influence the region’s relation to democracy and civil society and the production...