Digital 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 25 24 23 22 21 20 6 5 4 3 2 1 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 University of Florida Press 2046 NE Waldo Road Suite 2100 Gainesville, FL 32609 http://upress.ufl.edu 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 Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez 14. On DH in Brazil: An Interview with Ana Lígia Silva Medeiros 236 Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez 15. On DH in Mexico: An Interview with Isabel Galina Russell 253 Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez Coda 267 Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodríguez 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