Latin American Cyberculture:Net Practices, Online Communities and Virtual Identities
6 December 2007
Claire Taylor, University of Liverpool
This seminar paper offers firstly an overview of cybercultural practice in Latin America, with some insights into issues such as access, gender, and race. It then proceeds to examine some recent manifestations of Latin American cultural practice online, and suggests how these practices may make for the construction of new communities and identities. Functioning from outside the ‘lettered city’, Latin American Internet practitioners make use of alternative modes of expression and dissemination enabled by the new media technologies to circumvent traditional channels of communication and power structures.
