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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Best, Curwen, 1965- Politics of Caribbean cyberculture. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 (OCoLC)949623367 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Curwen Best |
ISBN: | 0230603769 9780230603769 1507997302 9781507997307 |
OCLC Number: | 145937829 |
Description: | 250 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction : Caribbean cyberculture in the age of machines -- Discourse on technology : go search, go figure -- Internet and the culture wars : Caribbean literary/cultural studies in cyberspace -- Cyber reach : Caribbean gospel (and religious) culture (Version 5.0) -- Caribbean entertainment and music culture pre- and post-Internet -- Cricket (sports) and the digital dispensation -- Video GameZ : enter the machines (Version 3.5) -- The Caribbean in big-budget film : the Caribbean in tourism. |
Responsibility: | Curwen Best. |
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"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 Read more...
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