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The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture

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  • © 2008

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  1. Curwen Best
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: Caribbean Cyberculture in the Age of the Machines

    • Curwen Best
    Pages 1-5

  3. Discourse on Technology: Go Search, Go Figure

    • Curwen Best
    Pages 7-17

  4. Internet and the Culture Wars: Caribbean Literary/Cultural Studies in Cyberspace

    • Curwen Best
    Pages 19-49

  5. Cyber Reach: Caribbean Gospel (and Religious) Culture (Version 5.0)

    • Curwen Best
    Pages 51-89

  6. Caribbean Entertainment and Music Culture Pre- and Post-Internet

    • Curwen Best
    Pages 91-136

  7. Cricket (Sports) and the Digital Dispensation

    • Curwen Best
    Pages 137-171

  8. Video GameZ: Enter the Machines (Version 3.5)

    • Curwen Best
    Pages 173-189

  9. The Caribbean in Big-Budget Film: The Caribbean in Tourism

    • Curwen Best
    Pages 191-222

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 223-250
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About this book

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. Best argues that Caribbean culture has gone wireless, virtual, and simulated in the age of the machines.

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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

About the author

Curwen Best is Senior Lecturer in English, University of the West Indies.

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