Latin American identity in online cultural production / laire Taylor and Thea Pitman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Claire, 1972- author.

Contributor:

Pitman, Thea.

Series:

Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 11.

Routledge studies in new media and cyberculture ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Latin America.

Information technology.

Digital media--Latin America.

Digital media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: cyberculture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other genre-defying web-based projects, perform with respect to Latin American(ist) discourses, as well as their often contestatory positioning with respect to Western hegemonic discourses as they circulate in cyberspace. The intellectual rationale for the volume is located at the crossroads of two, equally important, theoretical strands: theorizations of cyberculture, in their majority the product of the anglophone academy; and contemporary debates on Latin American identity and culture. "-- Provided by publisher.

"This volume provides an innovative and timely approach to a fast growing, yet still under-studied field in Latin American cultural production: cyberculture. It focuses on the transformations or continuations that cultural products and practices such as hypermedia fictions, net.art and online performance art, as well as blogs, films, databases and other genre-defying web-based projects, perform with respect to Latin American(ist) discourses"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover; Latin American Identity in Online Cultural Production; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Approaches to Latin American Online Cultural Production; 1 Cartographic Imaginaries: Mapping Latin(o) America's Place in a World of Networked Digital Technologies; 2 Reworking the 'Lettered City': The Resistant Reterritorialisation of Urban Place; 3 From Macondo to Macon.doc: Contemporary Latin American Hypertext Fiction; 4 Civilisation and Barbarism: New Frontiers and Barbarous Borders Online

5 Mestiz@ Cyborgs: The Performance of Latin American-ness as (Critical) Racial Identity6 Revolución.com? The Latin American Revolutionary Tradition in the Age of New Media (Revolutions); Conclusion: Latin American Cultural Practice Online: A Continuing Dialogue between Discourses; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-203-06913-7

1-299-28011-0

1-135-08556-0

9780203069134

OCLC:

830160794