In Whispers and Furtive Glances: Assessing Digital Literacies and (H)ac(k)tivism in Post-Embargo Cuba

1) Can there be digital literacies without formalized and material access to digital technologies?

 

2) To what extent have various populations in Cuba had material access to digital technologies?

 

3) In what capacity have Cuban citizens been introduced to and/or given free reign to use digital technologies?

 

4) Though severely hampered and restricted by overwhelming government control and surveillance as well as debilitating hardware and network limitations, how might we begin to consider Cuban digital literacies as unique and profound rhetorical and social performances of identity and (h)ac(k)tivism?

 

5) What are the "lenticular logics" that inhere in the Cuba's social, cultural, and historical contexts?