Full Description
A hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas
As digital media and technologies transform the study of the humanities around the world, this volume provides the first hemispheric view of the practice of digital humanities in the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas. These essays examine how participation and research in new media have helped configure identities and collectivities in the region.
Featuring case studies from throughout Latin America, including the United States Latinx community, contributors analyze documentary films, television series, and social media to show how digital technologies create hybrid virtual spaces and facilitate connections across borders. They investigate how Latinx bloggers and online activists navigate governmental restrictions in order to connect with the global online community.
These essays also incorporate perspectives of race, gender, and class that challenge the assumption that technology is a democratizing force. Digital Humanities in Latin America illuminates the cultural, political, and social implications of the ways Latinx communities engage with new technologies. In doing so, it connects digital humanities research taking place in Latin America with that of the Anglophone world.
Contributors: Paul Alonso | Morgan Ames | Eduard Arriaga | Anita Say Chan | Ricardo Dominguez | Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo | Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste | Jennifer M. Lozano | Ana Lígia Silva Medeiros | Gimena del Río Riande | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Isabel Galina Russell | Angharad Valdivia | Anastasia Valecce | Cristina Venegas
A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
1. Tech Disruption as Knowledge Production: Cuba and the Digital Humanities
Cristina Venegas
2. The Media Machine: One Laptop per Child in Paraguay
Morgan Ames
3. Nation Branding: Neo Liberalism, Identity, and Social Media
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste
4. (In) Visible Cuba(s): Digital Conflict, Virtual Diasporas, and Cyber Mambises
Anastasia Valecce
5. Digital Utopias, Latina/o Mediated Realities
Angharad N. Valdivia
6. The Politics of Participation: La Bloga, Latino/a Cultural Politics, and the Limits of Digital Participatory Culture
Jennifer Lozano
7. Afrolatin@ Digital Humanites or Rethinking Inclusion in the Digital Humanities
Eduard Arriaga
8. Modularity, Mimesis and the Informatic Ideal: On Intersectional Struggles for Digital Human(itie)s in Latin America
Anita Say Chan
9. Cuban Digital Pedagogies and the Question of the Interface in Yaima Pardo's Offline
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
10. Carnival, Hybridity, and Latin American Digital Humor: The Ecuadorian Case of Enchufe.tv
Paul Alonso
11. No Blogger, No Cry
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
12. Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD): Before 9/11 and After 9/11
Ricardo Domínguez
13. On DH in Argentina, an Interview with Gimena del Rio
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
14. On DH in Brazil, an Interview with Ana Lígia Medeiros
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
15. On DH in Mexico, an Interview with Isabel Galina Russell
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Coda
Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Notes
Works Cited
Contributors
Index
