Online Activism in Latin America

Introduction (Hilda Chacon) Part 1. Art and Activism in Cyberspace 1. A Theater of Displacement: Staging Activism, Poetry, and Migration through a Transborder Immigrant Tool (Sergio Delgado) 2. Decolonizing Youth Culture: Guatemalan Hip Hop Dissidents in Cyberspace (Esteban Loustaunau) 3. Narcocorridos and Internet: Demonopolizing Mexico's Narco History in Cyberspace (Juan Carlos Ramirez-Pimienta) 4. Belen Gache's Aleatory Politics: Radikal Karaoke and (Robo)Poetics Hacking Politics (Scott Weintraub) Part 2: Blogging as Online Activism 5. On Pirates and Tourists: Ambivalent Approaches to El Blog del Narco (Emily Hind) 6. Blogging and Disability Activism in Mexico: Katia D'Artigues's 'Mundo D' (Beth Jorgensen) 7. Revolucion.com? Resemanticising the Discourse of Revolution in Yoani Sanchez's Generation Y Blog (Thea Pitman) 8. The Uses and Limits of Ethnic Humor and New Media in !Ask A Mexican! (Amber Workman) Part 3: Enduring Struggles, Now Online 9. Five Hundred Years of Struggle Enter Cyberspace. Neo Zapatism and the (Old) New Insurgency (Carolina Gainza) 10. Voces Cubanas: Cyberactivism, Civic Engagement and Cubania in Contemporary Cuba (Omar Granados) 11. From Wounds to Healing: Transborder Testimonios Through Cyberspace Post-September 11, 2001 (Claire Joysmith) 12. Cyberspace as a Tool for Political and Social Awareness: The Killings of Juarez (Maria Matz) Part 4: Cyberspace and New Citizenry Representations 13. Digital favelas: New Visbilities and Self-Representation (Tori Holmes) 14. Online Activist Eco-Poetry: Techno-Cannibalism, Digital Indigeneity and Ecological Resistance in Brazil (Eduardo Ledesma) 15. 'Yo soy:' Public Protest, Private Expression: Contestatory Uses of Social Media by Contemporary Mexican Youth (Mary K. Long) 16. Interactive Projects from Colombia: Re-Thinking the Geopolitics of Territory (Claire Taylor)