Theses Doctoral

Granma, tell me the story of Cuba’s connection to the Internet: An inquiry into the treatment of information and communication technologies in Granma, the official voice of the Cuban Communist Party, between 1989 and 1999

Sauras, Javier

This dissertation looks at what Fidel Castro’s Cuban Communist Party said about information and communication technologies (ICTs) through its official voice, Granma, from 1989 to 1999. It explores the development and implementation of ICTs through the lens of an authoritarian, illiberal, anti-capitalist state; it presents printed evidence of how the Cuban state framed these new technologies and how it presented them to its population; and it also probes into the widely accepted, end-of-century truism that global communication networks are a democratizing agent.

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Academic Units
Communications
Thesis Advisors
Schudson, Michael S.
Degree
Ph.D., Columbia University
Published Here
January 15, 2025