The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture
Best, Curwen
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. This technology includes the internet, the computer, the cell phone, television, and radio, among others. Some of the specific expressions and phenomena treated include: tourism, big budget films, sports, video games, entertainment culture, religious and gospel culture, mobile culture, popular music, writing and technology, and porn. The work shows acute awareness of the wider global contexts--social, cultural, political, and spiritual--that form the backdrop for Caribbean cultural reconfiguration. Curwen Best argues that Caribbean culture has gone wireless, virtual, and simulated in the age of the machines.
BOOK REVIEWS
"The global impact of information technology is a fact, but what does it mean? Is it a story of coming together, or mere colonization; a multi-cultural success, or a cultural nightmare? This book investigates cyberculture from the view point of Caribbean culture, a daring change in perspective. Instead of assigning blame it opens up potentialities--let the game of mutual influence begin."--Wolfgang Schirmacher, Program Director of Media & Communications, The European Graduate School (EGS)
"Innovative and thorough, this study lays the foundation for a new field of scholarship."--Gregory Ulmer, Professor of English, University of Florida
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0230603769
ISBN(13-digit): 9780230603769
Dewey Decimal: 306.0285/467809729
Library of Congress: 2007025112
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 250
