From music to migration, favelas to bloggers, border activism to performative memory work, these scholars capture the power of digital citizenship.” -Marcy Schwartz, Rutgers University Online Activism in Latin America examines the innovative ways in which Latin American citizens, and in the U.S., use the Internet to advocate for causes that they consider just. This collection builds on media communications’ and literary studies’ work on the aesthetic and consumer implications of the Internet to uncover the geopolitical, economic, environmental, and cultural potential of new electronic media for participatory, citizen-based activism. ![]() ![]() “Chacón’s volume on the Internet as a tool for community building and political advocacy in Latin American social movements will be a welcome contribution to a burgeoning interdisciplinary field. PART IV: Cyberspace and New Citizenry Representationsġ3 Digital Favelas: New Visibilities and Self-Representationġ4 “Online Activist Eco-Poetry”: Techno-Cannibalism, Digital Indigeneity, and Ecological Resistance in Brazilġ5 “Yo soy”: Public Protest, Private Expression: Contestatory Uses of Social Media by Contemporary Mexican Youthġ6 Interactive Projects from Colombia: Rethinking the Geopolitics of Territory Neo-Zapatism and the (Old) New Insurgencyġ0 Voces Cubanas: Cyberactivism, Civic Engagement, and the making of Cubanía in Contemporary Cubaġ1 From Wounds to Healing: Transborder Testimonios through Cyberspace Post-September 11, 2001ġ2 Cyberspace as a Tool for Political and Social Awareness: The Killings of Juárez 1 A Theater of Displacement: Staging Activism, Poetry, and Migration through a Transborder Immigrant ToolĢ Decolonizing Youth Culture: Guatemalan Hip Hop Dissidents in Cyberspaceģ Narcocorridos and Internet: Demonopolizing Mexico’s Narco History in CyberspaceĤ Belén Gache’s Aleatory Politics: Radikal Karaoke and (Robo)Poetics Hacking Politicsĥ On Pirates and Tourists: Ambivalent Approaches to El Blog del NarcoĦ Blogging and Disability Activism in Mexico: Katia D’Artigues’s “Mundo D”ħ Revolución.com?: Resemanticizing the Discourse of Revolution in Yoani Sánchez’s Generación Y BlogĨ The Uses and Limits of Ethnic Humor and New Media in ¡Ask A Mexican!ĩ Five Hundred Years of Struggle Enter Cyberspace.
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