The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780230603769
Subjects: Film & Video - General; Genres & Styles - Electronic; Popular Culture - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; Social Science; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Caribbean Area; Computers; Internet; Popular culture; Social aspects; Sociology
Description: "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 jacket.