Notes1 Within the larger social shaping framework and with roots in media studies and anthropology, domestication theory explores how information and communication technologies (ICTs) are incorporated and appropriated by their users, initially stressing how they were fitted into the household (Silverstone, 1994; Silverstone and Haddon, 1997). Yet this theory allows us to ask broader questions […]

Today, with the development of information technologies, […] social networks, […] computers and the Internet, to prohibit something is nearly an impossible chimera. It makes no sense. Today, news from all sources, good and bad, manipulated, true, and half-true, circulate on the web and reach people. The worst response then, what is it? Silence. —Miguel […]

Notes1 Recently there have been several estimates of Venezuelan economic assistance to Cuba — for example by Lopez (2012) and Mesa-Lago (2013). My latest estimates suggest that payments from Venezuela increased rapidly during the first decade of the XXI century and peaked at almost 19% of Cuba’s GDP in 2009. They declined over the following […]

Notes1 Este trabajo observa desde la perspectiva cultural algunas manifestaciones de actores de la sociedad civil cubana en Internet en el marco de una campaña de actualización económica. Primero se expone qué se entiende por espacio público y sociedad civil, luego se presenta una colección representativa de conductas de profesionales oficiales y activistas de la […]

Comenzando el nuevo siglo, en los momentos más activos de mis acciones prácticas por la protección ambiental de La Habana y sus aguas, definiendo aun mis preceptos socio-ambientales por los cuales quería regir la implementación de nuevos proyectos e ideas, “cayó” en mis manos una interesante publicación del Centro Félix Varela. Este libro, presentado por […]