This volume explores one of the central issues that has been debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the practices of net artists in Latin America, and how their work interrogates some of the central place-based concerns of Latin(o) American identity through their on- and offline cultural practice.
Six particular works by artists of different countries in Latin America and within Latina/o communities in the US are studied in detail, with one each from Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, the US-Mexico border, and the US. Each chapter explores how each artist represents place in their works, and, in particular how traditional place-based affiliations, or notions of territorial identity, end up reproduced, re-affirmed, or even transformed online. At the same time, the book explores how these net.artists make use of new media technologies to express alternative viewpoints about the locations they represent, and use the internet as a space for the recuperation of cultural memory.
| ISBN: | 9781138548930 |
| Publication date: | 5th February 2018 |
| Author: | Claire Taylor |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 224 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture |
| Genres: |
Media studies Ethnic studies Cultural studies History of art Regional / International studies The arts: general topics History Graphical and digital media applications |
This volume explores one of the central issues that has been debated in internet studies in recent years: locality, and the extent to which cultural production online can be embedded in a specific place. The particular focus of the book is on the practices of net artists in Latin America, and how their work interrogates some of the central place-based concerns of Latin(o) American identity through their on- and offline cultural practice.
Six particular works by artists of different countries in Latin America and within Latina/o communities in the US are studied in detail, with one each from Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, the US-Mexico border, and the US. Each chapter explores how each artist represents place in their works, and, in particular how traditional place-based affiliations, or notions of territorial identity, end up reproduced, re-affirmed, or even transformed online. At the same time, the book explores how these net.artists make use of new media technologies to express alternative viewpoints about the locations they represent, and use the internet as a space for the recuperation of cultural memory.
Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture features in the following genres: Media studies, Ethnic studies, Cultural studies, History of art, Regional / International studies, The arts: general topics, History, Graphical and digital media applications
Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture was written by Claire Taylor and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Place and Politics in Latin American Digital Culture has 224 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture series
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