Online activism in Latin America. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Hilda Chacón.
• Editors: Chacón, Hilda, 1960-
• Contents: Introduction (Hilda Chacón) Part I. Art and Activism in Cyberspace 1. A Theater of Displacement: Staging Activism, Poetry, and Migration through a Transborder Immigrant Tool (Sergio Delgado Moya) 2. Decolonizing Youth Culture: Guatemalan Hip Hop Dissidents in Cyberspace (Esteban Loustaunau) 3. Narcocorridos and Internet: Demonopolizing Mexico’s Narco History in Cyberspace (Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta) 4. Belén Gache’s Aleatory Politics: Radikal Karaoke and (Robo)Poetics Hacking Politics (Scott Weintraub) Part II. Blogging as Online Activism 5. On Pirates and Tourists: Ambivalent Approaches to El Blog del Narco (Emily Hind) 6. Blogging and Disability Activism in Mexico: Katia D’Artigues’s ‘Mundo D’ (Beth Jörgensen) 7. Revolución.com? Resemanticising the Discourse of Revolution in Yoani Sánchez’s Generation Y Blog (Thea Pitman) 8. The Uses and Limits of Ethnic Humor and New Media in ¡Ask A Mexican! (Amber Workman) Part III. Enduring Struggles, Now Online 9. Five Hundred Years of Struggle Enter Cyberspace. Neo Zapatism and the (Old) New Insurgency (Carolina Gaínza Cortés) 10. Voces Cubanas : Cyberactivism, Civic Engagement and Cubanía in Contemporary Cuba (Omar Granados) 11. From Wounds to Healing: Transborder Testimonios Through Cyberspace Post-September 11, 2001 (Claire Joysmith) 12. Cyberspace as a Tool for Political and Social Awareness: The Killings of Juárez (María R. Matz) Part IV. Cyberspace and New Citizenry Representations 13. Digital favelas : New Visibilities and Self-Representation (Tori Holmes) 14. Online Activist Eco-Poetry: Techno-Cannibalism, Digital Indigeneity and Ecological Resistance in Brazil (Eduardo Ledesma) 15. ‘Yo soy:’ Public Protest, Private Expression: Contestatory Uses of Social Media by Contemporary Mexican Youth (Mary K. Long) 16. Interactive Projects from Colombia: Re-Thinking the Geopolitics of Territory (Claire Taylor)
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 303.484098; Social movements -- Latin America; Internet -- Political aspects -- Latin America
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351784658; 9781351784665; 9781351784641; 9781315202303
• Related ISBNs: 9781138705173
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