Table Of ContentDigital Humanities in Latin America
Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America
Digital Humanities
in Latin America
Edited by
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste
and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
University of Florida Press
Gainesville
Copyright 2020 by Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
All rights reserved
Published in the United States of America
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Fernández l’Hoeste, Héctor D., 1962– editor. | Rodríguez, Juan
Carlos, (Associate Professor), editor.
Title: Digital humanities in Latin America / edited by Héctor Fernández
L’Hoeste, Juan Carlos Rodríguez.
Other titles: Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America.
Description: Gainesville : University of Florida Press, 2020. | Series:
Reframing media, technology, and culture in Latin/o America | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019040202 (print) | LCCN 2019040203 (ebook) |
ISBN 9781683401476 (hardback) | ISBN 9781683401759 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Digital humanities. | Humanities—Research—Latin America.
| Humanities—Latin America—Electronic information resources.
Classification: LCC AZ195 .D555 2020 (print) | LCC AZ195 (ebook) | DDC
001.30285—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019040202
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019040203
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: In and Out of Digital Humanities; Nations, Networks,
and Practices in Latinx America 1
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Section I. Digital Nations
1. Tech Disruption as Knowledge Production: Cuba and the Digital
Humanities 23
Cristina Venegas
2. The Media Machine: One Laptop per Child in Paraguay 38
Morgan Ames
3. Nation Branding: Neoliberalism, Identity, and Social Media 57
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste
4. (In)Visible Cuba(s): Digital Conflict, Virtual Diasporas, and Cyber
Mambises 74
Anastasia Valecce
Section II. Transnational Networks
5. Digital Utopias, Latina/o Mediated Realities 91
Angharad N. Valdivia
6. The Politics of Participation: La Bloga, Latina/o Cultural Politics, and
the Limits of Digital Participatory Culture 107
Jennifer Lozano
7. Afrolatin@ Digital Humanities or Rethinking Inclusion in the Digital
Humanities 122
Eduard Arriaga
8. Modularity, Mimesis, and the Informatic Ideal: On Intersectional
Struggles for Digital Human(itie)s in Latin America 137
Anita Say Chan
Section III. Digital Aesthetics and Practices
9. Cuban Digital Pedagogies and the Question of the Interface in Yaima
Pardo’s Offline 157
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
10. Carnival, Hybridity, and Latin American Digital Humor: The
Ecuadorian Case of Enchufe.tv 177
Paul Alonso
11. No Blogger, No Cry 194
Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo
12. Electronic Civil Disobedience: Before 9/11 and after 9/11 205
Ricardo Domínguez
Section IV. Interviews
13. On DH in Argentina: An Interview with Gimena del
Río Riande 225
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14. On DH in Brazil: An Interview with Ana Lígia Silva Medeiros 236
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15. On DH in Mexico: An Interview with Isabel Galina Russell 253
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Coda 267
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Works Cited 271
List of Contributors 295
Index 297
Illustrations
Figures
3.1. Number of Facebook “Likes” per country 67
3.2. Number of Twitter followers (in thousands) 68
3.3. Number of arrivals (in millions) per country 68
Table
2.1. The five most popular types of programs opened 44
Acknowledgments
Our deepest thanks go to everyone involved in this project. We sincerely
couldn’t have asked for a more enjoyable and intellectually thriving group
of academic colleagues and participants. The team at the University of
Florida Press—Stephanye Hunter, Marthe Walters, Rachel Doll, Victoria
Reynolds, and many others—was a godsend. In both cases, we’re truly
appreciative of your generosity and patience. Many thanks also go to our
reviewers for their thorough reading and precious feedback.
Juan would like to thank the School of Modern Languages and the
Office of the Dean of the Ivan Allen College, specially Dean Jacqueline
Royster, for providing support to the event and participating in the ses-
sions. Juan also would like to recognize the stimulating dialogue with
colleagues Alex Gil, Lauren Klein, Yanni Loukissas, Janet Murray, Nas-
sim Parvin, Brad Rittenhouse, the Caribbean Digital community and the
DILAC Lab at Georgia Tech; these conversations have enriched his per-
spective on digital humanities in the context of Latin American Studies.
Special thanks go to Marc Zimmerman for his friendship and mentorship
in all these years. This project would have not been possible without the
support of my family and friends. I would like to thank my wife Cynthia,
my son Gustavo, my mom, my sisters, and my family and friends from
Puerto Rico, Cuba, and the US for their love and support.
Héctor would like to thank the Office of the Dean of the College of
Arts & Sciences at Georgia State University for its support of an event that
brought together so many effervescent minds. Thanks also go to Brennan
Collins and the Student Innovation Fellowship team: Nagi Gatla, Ven-
katesh Chintapandu, and Thomas Breideband. Endless gratitude goes to
my sisters in Denver, who many times put up with their brother’s soli-
tary inclination at the Schlessmann Family Branch Library of the Denver
