Venegas (film and media studies, U. of California-Santa Barbara) analyzes the impact of the Internet and digital media on media policies, procedures, and practices in the Caribbean island nation. In particular, she seeks to understand institutional and human networks evolving out of contested public and private interests in the artistic and personal terrain that the technologies have helped construct. She covers inventing, recycling, and deploying technologies; media technologies and Cuban democracy, tourism and the social ramification of media technologies, film culture in the digital millennium, and digital communities and the pleasures of technology. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)