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The politics of Caribbean cyberculture

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The politics of Caribbean cybercultureCurwen Best.
作者:	Best, Curwen,
出版者:	New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2008.
面頁冊數:	250 p. :ill.
標題:	Popular cultureCaribbean Area.
標題:	Caribbean AreaRace relations.
電子資源:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230610132

The politics of Caribbean cyberculture
Best, Curwen,1965-

The politics of Caribbean cyberculture[electronic resource] /Curwen Best. - 1st ed. - New York :Palgrave Macmillan,2008. - 250 p. :ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-242) and index.

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 entertainmentand 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.

This book covers significant new ground, examining the impact and imprint of new leading technology on a range of popular expressions. Thistechnology 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.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230610132

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230610132doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

474746
Popular culture
--Caribbean Area.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

434653
Caribbean Area
--Race relations.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

214472
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: F1408.3 / .B45 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.0285/467809729

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