Digital Encounters: Envisioning Connectivity in Latin American Cultural Production

To understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution. Digital Encounters explores the influence of an increasingly networked world on contemporary Latin American cu...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto University of Toronto Press [2022]
Series:Latinoamericana
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:To understand the creative fabric of digital networks, scholars of literary and cultural studies must turn their attention to crowdsourced forms of production, discussion, and distribution. Digital Encounters explores the influence of an increasingly networked world on contemporary Latin American cultural production. Drawing on a spectrum of case studies, the contributors to this volume examine literature, art, and political activism as they dialogue with programming languages, social media platforms, online publishing, and geospatial metadata. Implicit within these connections are questions of power, privilege, and stratification. The book critically examines issues of inequitable access and data privacy, technology's capacity to divide people from one another, and the digital space as a site of racialized and gendered violence. Through an expansive approach to the study of connectivity, Digital Encounters illustrates how new connections - between analog and digital, human and machine, print text and pixel - alter representations of self, Other, and world
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (312 pages) 37 b&w illustrations, 3 b&w maps, 8 b&w figures, 1 b&w table
ISBN:9781487538804
DOI:10.3138/9781487538804

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